طِلْحٌ

The tick; synonym قُرَادٌ; (S, A, K;) sometimes applied thereto; (S;) as also ↓ طَلِيحٌ: (S, K:) or a large tick. (TA. [See حَمْنَانٌ.])

[Hence,] طِلْحُ مَالٍ (tropical:) One who keeps to camels, or cattle, and to the care of them, like as cleaves the طِلْح, i. e. tick: (A:) a manager, tender, or superintendent, of camels, or cattle; or a good pastor thereof. (K.)

And طِلْحُ نِسَاءِ (tropical:) One who follows, or goes after, women (K, TA) much, or often. (TA.)

And طِلْحٌ is also explained as signifying A pastor fatigued, or wearied: (K, TA:) and [its plural] طُلُحٌ, as signifying [simply] pastors. (L.) El-Hotei-ah says, after mentioning certain camels and their pastors,

إِذَا نَامَ طِلْحٌ أَشْعَثُ الرَّأْسِ خَلْفَهَا

هَدَاهُ لَهَا أَنْفَاسُهَا وَزَفِيرُهَا

When a pastor, dusty and shaggy or matted in the hair of the head, sleeps behind them, [and they become lost to him,] their breathing and their vehement respiration occasioned by the fulness of their bellies guides him to them, so that he finds them, even if they be distant. (S, * L.)

See also طَلِيحٌ, in four places.