أَخْشَبُ

Also A great mountain: (A:) or a rugged, or rough, and great mountain; (S, K;) and so جَبَلٌ خَشِبٌ: or such as is not to be ascended: (TA:) an elevated place, rugged, with rough stones: (JK:) a tract of the kind termed قُفّ, rugged and stony: (TA:) plural أَخَاشِبُ, (A, TA,) because the quality of a subst. is predominant in it: and the feminine خَشْبَاءُ is also sometimes used in the same sense; or as synonym with غَيْضَةٌ [i. e. a thicket, &c.]; but the former meaning is better known: and this [likewise] is thought to be rather a subst. than an epithet, because of the plural, mentioned above: (TA:) and خُشْبَانٌ [also seems to be a plural of أَخْشَبُ, or of خَشِبٌ; for it is said that it] signifies rugged, or rough, mountains, neither great nor small: (K:) and rugged ground. (TA in article ذنب.) خَشْبَاءُ also signifies Hard land or ground; (K, * TA;) land, or ground, in which are stones and pebbles and earth or clay. (IAmb, TA.) And أَرْضٌ خَشَابٌ (K, TA) Hard land or ground, like خَشْبَاءُ, (TA,) that flows with the least rain. (K, TA.) And أَكَمَةٌ خَشْبَاءُ (S, TA) A hill of which the stones are scattered, but near together. (TA.) And جَبْهَةٌ خَشْبَاءُ A displeasing forehead; as also خَشِبَةٌ: (TA:) or a displeasing, rigid forehead; (JK, S, K; *) not even. (JK.) And أَخْشَبُ الجَبْهَةِ A man having a displeasing and rigid forehead. (TA.)