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تَلَحَّى , (S, Mgh,) and تلحّى بِعِمَامَتِهِ , (TA, art. عجر ,) He wound a part of his turban under his lower jaw: (S, Mgh:) as also تَحَنَّكَ , q. v.

اِلْتَحَيْتُ اللَّحْمَ عَنِ العَظْمِ [I peeled off the flesh from the bone]. (O, K, in art. سلق .)

لَحْىٌ [not لَحًى ] The jaw-bone; (Mgh, Msb;) either upper or lower: (Msb:) and, in a man, (Msb,) the part on which the beard grows. (S, Msb, K.) ― -b2- And sometimes Either lateral portion of the lower jaw: see ذَقَنٌ , and الفَنِيكُ .

لِحْيَةُ التَّيْسِ : see ثِيلٌ . ― -b2- لِحْيَةٌ is sometimes, by a synecdoche, put for the whole person: see a verse cited voce خُنْثٌ .

مَسْحُ اللُِّحَى : see عَقَّ بِالسَّهْمِ .

لِحَا=ءٌ Bark; and in particular the bark of a plant, or of a tree, of which ropes &c. are made. ― -b2- The لِحَا=ء of the date is [its Pulp, pulpy pericarp, or flesh; i. e.] the part that clothes the نَوَاة [or stone]. (TA.) ― -b3- لِحَا=ءُ العِنَبِ [The skin of grapes]. (TA in art. شحم .)

لَوَاحِى الشَّيْبِ , for لَوَايءِحُ الشيب , q. v.