أَلْعَسُ
1.
Having a blackness, deemed beautiful, in the lip: feminine لَعْسَاءُ: plural لُعْسٌ: (K:) the plural, applied to girls and to women, signifies [as above; or] having a blackness in their lips; (TA;) or having lips of a colour inclining a little to blackness, which is deemed beautiful: (S:) the feminine is also applied to a lip, (شَفَة,) signifying of a colour inclining a little to blackness, which is deemed beautiful; (S;) or having a blackness, deemed beautiful; and in like manner the plural to lips: (A:) and the masculine to the external skin, (بَشَر); so applied by El-'Ajjáj: (TA:) and the feminine to a girl, as signifying having in her complexion the least degree of blackness, and tinged with redness, (A, K, TA,) not of a clear hue: (TA:) and the plural to girls, as signifying having a blackness in their complexions. (Az, TA.)