مِسْيَاحٌ

(tropical:) One who goes about calumniating, and making mischief, in the land: (S, A, K:) plural مَسَايِيحُ: so in the tradition, لَيْسُوا بِالمَسَايِيحِ وَلَا بِالمَذَايِيعِ البُذُرِ (tropical:) [They are not of those who go about calumniating, &c., nor of the babblers who cannot keep secrets.] (S, TA.) Sh derives it, not from السِّيَاحَةُ, but, from تَسْيِيحُ الثَّوْبِ. (L, TA.)