قَرِيحَةٌ

The first water that is drawn forth, or produced, of a well, (S, A, K, TA,) when it is dug; (TA;) and ↓ قُرْحٌ signifies the same. (K.)

And The first of what pours forth, or descends, [for اصاب in my original I read صَابَ] of the contents of clouds. (A.)

And (tropical:) The first of a thing; (A;) and so ↓ قُرْحٌ; and the former, the first of anything. (K.)

And (tropical:) A faculty whereby intellectual things are elicited, or excogitated. (MF.) One says, لِفُلَانٍ قَرِيحَةٌ جَيِّدَةٌ i. e. (tropical:) Such a one has a good, or an excellent, natural faculty for the elicitation of matters of science: (S, A:) from قَرِيحَةٌ in the first of the senses explained above. (S.)

And (tropical:) The natural, native, or innate, disposition, temper, or other quality, of a person: (K, TA:) and, as some explained it, the mind, and intellect: (TA:) plural قَرَايءِحُ. (L.)