سَبِيخٌ

Cotton, and wool, and soft hair (وَبَر), separated, or plucked asunder, and loosened; as also ↓ مُسَبَّخٌ: (TA:) [and ↓ سَبِيخَةٌ, in which the ة is added to convert the epithet into a subst., signifies a portion, i. e. a loose flock, thereof; and its plural is سَبَايءِخُ, whence] one says, طَارَتْ سَبَايءِخُ القُطْنِ [The loose flocks of the cotton flew about]. (A.)

[Hence,] (tropical:) Feathers (رِيش) that fall off (S, A, K) and become scattered: (K:) as also ↓ مُسَبَّخٌ: (TA:) the plural of the former (K, TA) [used as a subst.], in this and in the following senses, (TA,) [or rather of ↓ سَبِيخَةٌ as a n. un. thus used,] is سَبَايءِخُ. (K, TA.) One says, وَرَدْتُ مَاءً حَوْلَهُ سَبِيخُ الطَّيْرِ, and ↓ سَبَايءِخُهُ, i. e. (tropical:) [I came to water around which were] the feathers that had fallen off [and become scattered] of birds. (A.)

Also Cotton made wide for a medicament to be put upon it (K, TA) and for it to be applied upon a wound: (TA:) and ↓ سَبِيخَةُ signifies a portion of cotton thus prepared for this purpose. (JK, K. *)

And Cotton, (S, K,) and wool, and soft hair (وَبَر), (S,) wound, after the separating and loosening, (S, K, in the former بَعْدَ النَّدْفِ ↓ يُسْبَخُ i. e. يُلَفُّ,) to be spun (S, K) by a woman: (S:) and ↓ سَبِيخَةٌ signifies a portion thereof. (S.)