شذب1 شَذَبَ, aor. ـِ and شَذُبَ, (K,) inf. n. شَذْبٌ, (TA,) He stripped off, or removed, the bark of a tree; as also ↓ شذّب, inf. n. تَشْذِيبٌ: (K:) he cut off portions of a tree, or the bark thereof. (TA.) He cut, or cut off, a thing; (O, K;) aor. ـِ inf. n. شَذْبٌ. (O.) He cut, or lopped, a tree: or he divested it of its bark. (A.) He pruned, or pared, a tree by cutting off its شَذَب, i. e. its  straggling branches, or its thorns, or its bark; aor. ـِ inf. n. شَذْبٌ; and ↓ شذّب has the like meaning, but importing muchness, or relation to many objects: and شَذَبَ also signifies he trimmed, or cleared, anything by removing another thing from it: (Msb:) or he pruned a tree by lopping off its branches so that it became apparent: (K, TA:) and he pruned a palm-tree by cutting off from it its شَذَب, meaning its branches: (TA:) and [in like manner] ↓ شذّب, (S, TA,) inf. n. تَشْذِيبٌ, (S, K, TA,) he pruned a tree by cutting off its شَذَب, meaning its straggling branches not in the choice, or best, part thereof: (S:) or he trimmed a palm-trunk (K, TA) by lopping off the stumps of the branches: (TA:) الرَّيَاحِينِ ↓ تَشْذِيبُ [likewise] signifies the pruning, or cutting off, the superfluous portions of the straggling extremities of the sprigs of sweet-smelling plants: (Mgh:) and شُذِبَ عَنْهُ, said of anything, signifies it was removed from it, namely, another thing. (TA.) b2:  See also 2, in two places.2 شذّب, inf. n. تَشْذِيبُ: see above, in four places. b2:  [Hence,] تَشْذِيبٌ signifies also The shaping an arrow by the first operation: (AHn, K:) the second operation is termed تَهْذِيبٌ. (AHn.) b3:  And شذّبهُ, (Sh, TA,) inf. n. as above, (Sh, K,) He drove away him, or it, (Sh, K, * TA,) from a thing; (TA;) as also ↓ شَذَبَهُ, aor. ـِ inf. n. شَذْبٌ: (Sh, TA:) and عَنْهُ ↓ شَذَبَ he repelled from him, or defended him. (S, K.) b4: And شَذَّبْتُ المَالَ, (KT, TA,) inf. n. as above, (K,) (assumed tropical:)  I dispersed, or scattered, the property. (KT, K, * TA.) b5:  [And accord. to Golius, on the authority of a gloss in a copy of the KL, شذّب also signifies He made long.]5 تشذّبوا (tropical:)  They became dispersed, or scattered. (A, K.) شَذَبٌ Pieces, or cuttings, of trees; (As, A 'Obeyd, K;) n. un. with ة: (As, A 'Obeyd:) or bark of trees: (K:) pieces of bark, and pieces of wood, or sticks, or twigs or branches, in a dispersed, or scattered, state; (O, K;) pl. أَشْذَابٌ: (K:) what fall from, or of, the branches of a tree, [when it is pruned,] in a dispersed, or scattered, state: or, as some say, the thorns: and the bark: (Msb:) the stumps of the cut branches upon the trunk of a palm-tree, and other portions, which are lopped off; (O;) [i. e., also] the branches thereof which are lopped off: (TA:) and in like manner, (O,) as pl. of شَذَبَةٌ, (S,) [or rather as a coll. gen. n. of which the n. un. is with ة,] what are cut off from, or of, the branches of trees, (S, O,) others than palm-trees, (O,) i. e. of the straggling branches, (S,) such as are not in the choice, or best, part thereof: (S, O:) also the superfluous portions of the straggling extremities of the sprigs of sweet-smelling plants, which are pruned, or cut off. (Mgh.) b2:  Anything in a scattered, or dispersed, state. (KT, TA.) b3: (tropical:)  Somewhat remaining of herbage [&c.]: (S, A, O, K: [in the first and third of which is added وَهُوَ المَأْكُولُ, app. referring to the herbage of which the remainder is thus called, meaning, “it being what has been eaten: ”]) pl. as above, i. e. أَشْذَابٌ. (S, O, K. *) One says, فِى الأَرْضِ شَذَبٌ مِنْ كَلَأ (tropical:)  In the land is somewhat remaining of herbage. (A, TA.) And one says also, بَقِىَ عِنْدَهُ شَذَبٌ مِنْ مَالٍ (tropical:)  [There remained in his possession a remnant of property]. (A, TA.) And مَا بَقِىَ لَهُ إِلَّا شَذَبٌ مِنَ العَسْكَرِ (tropical:)  [There remained not to him save a relic of the army]. (A, TA.) b4: Also (assumed tropical:)  Household goods, or furniture and utensils, consisting of what are termed قُمَاش [q. v., perhaps here meaning the meaner sorts thereof,] &c.: (A 'Obeyd, O, K:) pl. as above. (K, * TA.) A2: And A dam; or thing constructed, or raised, to keep back the water of a torrent. (S, O, K.) رَجُلٌ شَذِبُ العُرُوقِ (assumed tropical:)  A man whose veins are apparent. (S, K.) A2:  And شذب [app. شَذِبٌ] is syn. with عَظِبٌ, meaning A man alighting, or abiding, in places of dried-up herbage, and in a waterless desert. (TA in art. عظب.) شَاذِبٌ (tropical:)  Going, or being, away from his home, or place of settled abode. (S, K, TA.) b2:  (tropical:)  Solitary, or alone, and whose prosperity is despaired of; (K, TA;) as though stripped of good. (TA.) شَوْذَبٌ: see مُشَذَّبٌ, in three places.مِشْذَبٌ A pruning-hook. (O, * K, * TA.) مُشَذَّبٌ A palm-trunk pared (S, O, TA) of its prickles (TA) [or of the stumps of its branches or of its lower branches: see the verb of which it is the pass. part. n.]. b2:  (tropical:)  Tall; (S, A;) as also ↓ شَوْذَبٌ; (S;) the former as an epithet applied to a horse, (S, A,) from the same epithet as applied to a palm-trunk: (A:) and (assumed tropical:)  tall, and goodly in make; (A, K;) and so ↓ شَوْذَبٌ; (Mgh, K;) as though pruned: (Mgh:) and ↓ the latter, applied to anything [meaning any animal], (assumed tropical:)  tall, and excellent or of high breed or strong and light and swift: A 'Obeyd says that the former signifies (assumed tropical:)  excessively tall, and is applied in this sense to anything [i. e. a man and any animal]: KT says, after explaining شَذَّبْتُ المَالَ as it has been expl. above, that he who is excessively tall is as though his frame were disconnected, and not compact; and therefore he is thus termed: but IAmb says that KT has made a mistake in asserting that this epithet signifies (assumed tropical:)  tall, conspicuous for tallness, and that it is from the palm-tree from which the branches have been lopped off, (in consequence of which, as is said in the Fáïk, it becomes taller, MF, TA,) and that he who is (assumed tropical:)  conspicuous for tallness is not thus called unless somewhat deficient in flesh: it is applied to a horse as meaning (tropical:)  tall, and not very fleshy. (TA.)