سِمْحَاقٌ

[The pericranium; i. e.] the thin skin, (T, Mgh, Msb,) or thin integument, (S, Mgh, K,) above the skull: (T, S, Mgh, Msb, K:) and any thin skin resembling that; (Msb;) or [the periosteum of any bone; i. e.] the skin that is between the bone and the flesh, above the bone and beneath the flesh; every bone having what is thus termed: (TA:) [plural سَمَاحِيقُ.

Hence,] one says, عَلَى ثَرْبِ الشَّاةِ سَمَاحِيقُ مِنْ شَحْمٍ, (S, K, TA,) i. e. (tropical:) [Upon the fat that covers the stomach and bowels of the sheep or goat is or are] a thin integument [or thin integuments of fat]. (TA.)

And سَمَاحِيقُ السَّمَاءِ (tropical:) The [strata or] thin portions of cloud. (S, K, TA.)

سِمْحَاقٌ also signifies [The cicatrix which is] the mark of circumcision. (TA.)

And A wound by which the head is broken (شَجَّةٌ [q. v.]) reaching to the thin skin, or integument, thus called. (T, S, Msb, K.)