أَمْسَحُ

A flat place, with small pebbles, and without plants, or herbage. (S.)

مَسْحَاءُ A plain tract of land, with small pebbles, (S, K,) and without plants, or herbage: (S:) [example] مَرَرْتُ بِخَرِيقٍ مِنَ الأَرْضِ بِيْنَ مَسْحَاوَيْنِ [I passed by a depressed tract of land containing herbage between two plain tracts containing small pebbles and without herbage]: (Fr, S:) or a piece of flat ground, bare, abounding with pebbles, containing no trees nor herbage, rugged, somewhat hard, like a flat place in which camels &c. are confined, or in which dates are dried, not what is termed قُفّ, nor what is termed سَهْلَة: (ISh:) plural مَسَاحٍ and مَسَاحى [i. e. مَسَاحَى or مَسَاحِىُّ]; plural forms proper to substs.; as it is an epithet in which the quality of a subst. predominates. (L.)

Also مَسْحاءُ Red land. (K.)

مَسْحَاءُ A woman having little flesh in her posteriors and thighs; or foul, ugly, or unseemly; synonym رَسْحَاءُ. (S.) [In the K., الأَرْضُ الرَّسْحَاءُ, given as an explanation of المَسْحَاءُ, is an evident mistake for المَرْأَةُ الرَّسْحَاءُ, as observed by Freytag.]

أَمْسَحُ, or أَمْسَحُ القَدَمِ, A man having a flat sole to his foot, without any hollow: (L:) feminine مَسْحَاءُ: (L, K:) and ↓ مَسِيحٌ, or القَدَمَيْنِ ↓ مَسِيحُ, signifies the same: and also having smooth and soft feet, without fissures or chaps, so that they repel water when it falls upon them. (L.)

Also مَسْحَاءُ, (K,) or مسحاءُ الثَّدْىِ, (L,) A woman whose breast has no bulk. (L, K.)

Also مَسْحَاءُ A one-eyed woman: [see also مَسِيحٌ:] and such as is termed بِخْقَاءُ, whose eye is not مُلَوَّزَة: so in [most of] the copies of the K., but in some, بِلَّوْرَة: (TA:) [the meaning seems to be whose eye has no crystalline humour].

أَمْسَحُ A man having little flesh in his posteriors and thighs; or having small buttocks sticking together; synonym ارسح: feminine مَسْحَاءُ: plural مُسْحٌ. (L.)

أَمْسَحَ A man (S) having the inner sides of his thighs rubbing together (S, L, K) so as to become sore and chapped: (L:) or having the inner side of his knee inflamed by the roughness of his garment: (L, K:) feminine مَسْحَاءُ, and plural مُسْحٌ. (L.)

غَارَةٌ مَسْحَاءُ (tropical:) A hostile attack, or incursion, by a troop of horse, in which the attacking party passes lightly by the party attacked, or brushes by them, without remaining by them. (L, from a tradition)

See مَسِيحٌ.