نُفَاثَةٌ

1.
What one blows, or spits, (يَنْفِثُ,) from his mouth. (S.)
2.
What a person having a disease in his chest blows forth or spits out, يَنْفِثُ. (K.)
3.
What remains in one's mouth, of a سِوَاك, or tooth-stick, and is spit out: (S:) a particle broken off (شَظِيَّةٌ: so in the L &c.: in the K, شَطِيبَةٌ:) from a سواك, or tooth-stick, remaining in the mouth, and spit out. (L, K.) One says, لَوْ سَأَلَنِى نُفَاثَةَ سِوَاكٍ مَا أَعْطَيْتُهُ If he asked me for a particle of a tooth-stick, remaining in my mouth, I would not give him (it). (S.)

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