سَعْفَةٌ

A certain disease, (Kr, TA,) or pustules, (S, K, TA,) coming forth upon the head (Kr, S, K, TA) of a child, (S, K, TA,) and upon his face: (K, TA:) said by AHát to be دَاءُ الثَّعْلَبِ [i. e. alopecia], which occasions baldness; and ↓ سَعَفَةٌ is a dialect var. thereof in this last sense. (TA.)