أَدْكَنُ
1.
A thing, (S, TA,) [or a garment, (see 1,)] or a horse, (Msb,) of a blackish colour; of a colour inclining to blackness: (S, K:) or of a colour inclining to that of dust; [or brown; i. e.] of a colour between redness and blackness: (Msb, TA:) and a garment dirty and dust-coloured: (TA:) feminine دَكْنَاءُ; (Msb, TA;) applied also to a serpent: plural دُكْنٌ, applied also to clouds. (TA.) In the following verse, Lebeed applies it as meaning A wine-skin that has become in good condition in respect of its colour and odour by reason of its oldness; (S;) or a blackish, or black, wine-skin: (EM p. 169:)
(S, EM:) i. e. I buy wine at a high price, together with every blackish, or black, old, wineskin, or wine-jar smeared with pitch, from which one has ladled out, the sealed clay upon its mouth having been broken. (EM.)أُغْلِى السِّبَاءَ بِكُلِّ أَدْكَنَ عَاتِقٍأَوْ جَوْنَةٍ قُدِحَتْ وَفُضَّ خِتَامُهَا
2.
ثَرِيدَةٌ دَكْنَاءُ [A mess of crumbled bread moistened with broth] having a large quantity of seeds with which it is seasoned: (K:) [apparently because of its colour: but SM says,] as though the said seeds were put one upon another on it. (TA.)