A skin, or hide; (JK, S, K;) as also ↓سَلْخٌ: (TA:) or, of a sheep or goat; (A;) as also ↓سِلْخٌ, i. e. its skin, or hide, that is stripped off. (K, TA.) [Hence,] one says, فُلَانٌ حِمَارٌ فِىمِسْلَاخِ إِنْسَانٍ (tropical:) [Such a one is an ass in the skin of a man]. (A, TA.)
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And The slough of a serpent; (JK, S, A, L, K;) as also ↓سِلْخٌ, (MA, KL, and so in the CK,) or ↓سَلْخٌ, (TA,) and ↓سَلْخَةٌ. (L, and so in copies of the K and in the TA.)
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Also (assumed tropical:) A palm-tree of which the unripe dates fall and become scattered about in a green state. (S, K.)