مُسَيَّحٌ

1.
(assumed tropical:) Striped; applied in this sense to a [garment of the kind called] بُرْد; (S, K;) and also, with ة, to a [garment such as is called] عَبَاءَة: (S:) or applied to [the garments called] عَبَاء as meaning having alternate stripes of white and black, the latter not intensely black: every عباءة also is termed سَيْحٌ and مُسَيَّحَةٌ: but that which has not stripes is a كِسَاء, not an عباءة. (ISh, TA.) So too applied to locusts (جَرَاد); (K;) and with ة applied to a single locust [i. e. جَرَادَة]: (TA:) or, applied to locusts, it means marked with black and yellow and white stripes or streaks. (As, TA.) It is also applied as an epithet to the [bird called] حَيْقُطَان. (S.)
2.
(tropical:) The wild ass: so called because of his streak that makes a division between the belly and the side. (K, TA.) مُسَيَّحُ العَجِيزَةِ (tropical:) [He that has the rump streaked] is an epithet applied to the [wild] ass because of the whiteness on his rump. (A, TA.)
3.
(tropical:) A road of which the tracks (شَرَك or شُرُك in different copies of the K) are rendered apparent: (K, TA:) likened to the عَبَاء thus termed. (TA.)

Perseus ID: n21398