سَالَ
1.
, (S, M, Msb, K,) said of water, (S, Msb, TA,) or of a thing, (M,) aorist يَسِيلُ, (Msb, K,) verbal noun سَيْلٌ and سَيَلَانٌ (S, M, Msb, K, TA) and مَسِيلٌ and مَسَالٌ, (TA,) It flowed, or ran: (M, K, TA:) or, said of water, it rose so as to become excessively copious, and flowed, or ran: and سال said of thing, it was, or became, fluid, or liquid; opposite of جَمَدَ. (Msb.)
2.
The Arabs say, سَالَ بِهِمُ السَّيْلُ وَجَاشَ بِنَا البَحْرُ [The torrent flowed with them, and the sea estuated with us so as to be unnavigable;] meaning, (assumed tropical:) they fell into a hard case, and we fell into one that was harder than it: (M, Meyd:) a proverb. (Meyd.)
3.
And سَالَتْ عَلَيْهِ الخَيْلُ (tropical:) [The horsemen poured upon him]. (TA. [See also 6.])
4.
And سالت الغُرَّةُ (assumed tropical:) [The blaze upon the face of a horse] extended, or spread, long and wide: (S:) [or, simply, extended down the face; as appears from an explanation of the word شِمْرَاخٌ in the S and K &c.: see also سَايءِلَةٌ, below. And in like manner سال is often said of flowing, or defluent, hair.]
5.
سِيلَ &c. for سُيءِلَ, pass, of سَأَلَ: see this last word, in article سأل.