لطأ1 لَطَأَ بِالأَرْضِ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لَطْءٌ; and لَطِئَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لُطُوْءٌ; He clave to the ground. (S, K.) Also, the former, without ء: إِلْطَهْ occurs in a trad. for إِلْطَأْ [imper. of لَطِئَ] Cleave to the ground. (TA.) b2:  لَطِئَ لِسَانِى My tongue became stiff, so that I could not move it to speak. From a trad. (TA.) b3:  لَطَأَ, (K,) inf. n. لَطْءٌ, (TA,) He beat a person with a staff or stick: or he beat on the back only. (K.) لَطَأٌ The wolf: [because it crouches, or crawls, upon the ground]. (TA.) b2:  A hunter, or sportsman: [for the same reason]. (TA.) رَأَيْتُ الذِّئْبَ لَاطِئًا لِلسَّرِقَةِ [I saw the wolf crouching to steal]. (TA.) لَا طِئَةٌ A wound on the head, such as is termed سِمْحَاقٌ: (K:) also termed ↓ مِلْطَأٌ and ↓ مِلْطَأَةٌ [q. v. infra]. (TA.) b2:  Also, A pustule (K) that comes forth upon a man, scarcely curable; (TA;) said to be from the sting, or bite, of the ثُطْأَة.So in the L; but in the K, incorrectly, or it is from the sting, or bite, of the ثطاة. (TA.) b3: Also, A small kind of قَلَنْسُوَة, that cleaves to the head. (A, TA.) مِلْطَأٌ and مِلْطَأَة: see لَاطِئَةٌ, and also arts.لطى and لط. b2:  The former is also explained as signifying The pericranium itself; a thin cuticle, or membrane, between the bone of the scull and its flesh: accord. to IAth and the L. (TA.)