ل • ح • ى

: see a verse cited voce خَطَبَ. لَحَاهُ اللّٰهُ: see شَرَاهُ.

, (S, Mgh,) and تلحّى بِعِمَامَتِهِ, (TA, art. عجر,) He wound a part of his turban under his lower jaw: (S, Mgh:) as also تَحَنَّكَ, q. v.

[I peeled off the flesh from the bone]. (O, K, in art. سلق.)

[not لَحًى] The jaw-bone; (Mgh, Msb;) either upper or lower: (Msb:) and, in a man, (Msb,) the part on which the beard grows. (S, Msb, K.) And sometimes Either lateral portion of the lower jaw: see ذَقَنٌ, and الفَنِيكُ.

, for لَوَايءِحُ الشيب, q. v.

Bark; and in particular the bark of a plant, or of a tree, of which ropes &c. are made. The لِحَاء of the date is [its Pulp, pulpy pericarp, or flesh; i. e.] the part that clothes the نَوَاة [or stone]. (TA.) لِحَاءُ العِنَبِ [The skin of grapes]. (TA in art. شحم.)

See ثِيلٌ.

لِحْيَةٌ is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person: see a verse cited voce خُنْثٌ.

: see عَقَّ بِالسَّهْمِ.