لحب1 لَحَبَ, aor. ـَ (S, K,) inf. n. لَحْبٌ; (S;) and ↓ التحب; (K;) He trod, and passed along, a road, such as is termed لَحْبٌ, (S, K,) or simply, a road. (TA.) So also التحم. Lth.) A2:  لَحَبَهُ and ↓ لحّبه He smote him with a sword: (K:) or wounded him with it. (Th.) b2:  لَحَبَهُ and ↓ لحّبه He made a mark, or impression, upon it. (K.) b3:  He flogged him with whips, and made marks, or scars, upon him. (TA.) b4:  لَحَبَهُ, (inf. n. لَحْبٌ, TA,) He cut it (i. e. flesh-meat) lengthwise. (K.) b5:  لَحَبَ (inf. n. لَحْبٌ, TA,) He stripped off meat from the bone. (S, K.) b6:  He (a butcher) took what was on the back of the slaughtered camel. (TA.) b7: He peeled a stick or the like, (S,) or anything. (TA.) b8:  It (the portion next the back-bone, on either side, of a horse, (K,) or his rump, TA) was smooth, and sloping downwards: syn. إِمْلَأَسَّ فِى حُدُورٍ. (K.) b9:  لَحَبَ, aor. ـَ inf. n. لُحُوبٌ, It (a road) became conspicuous, clear, or open: (K:) as though it peeled [the surface of] the ground. (TA.) b10:  لَحَبَ, inf. n. لَحْبٌ, He made a road conspicuous, or clear. (K, TA.) So in the saying of Umm-Selmeh to 'Othmán, لَا تُعَفِّ طَرِيقًا كَانَ رَسُولُ اللّٰهِ صلعم لَحَبَهَا Do not thou efface a road which the Apostle of God, &c., made conspicuous, or clear. (TA.) A3: لَحَبَ (inf. n. لَحْبٌ, TA,) (assumed tropical:)  Inivit feminam. (K.) See لَخَبَ. b2:  لَحَبَ بِه الأَرْضَ He threw him down prostrate upon the ground. (K.) b3:  لَحَبَ, (inf. n. لَحْبٌ, TA,) He (a man) passed, or went along, through the land: (TA:) or he went right on, or straight on: (S, K:) or he hastened in his pace; went quickly. (K.) A4:  لَحِبَ, aor. ـَ [inf. n. لَحَبٌ,] He (a man) became emaciated by reason of old age, (S, K,) and weakness. (TA.) 2 لَحَّبَ see 1.8 إِلْتَحَبَ see 1.لَحْبٌ and ↓ لَاحِبٌ (S, K: the latter word of the measure فَاعِلٌ in the sense of the measure مَفْعُولٌ: i. e. مَلْحُوبٌ: S) and ↓ مُلَحَّبٌ (K) A conspicuous road: (S, K:) a wide, extended, road, that is not interrupted. (TA.) لَحِيبٌ A she-camel having little flesh in her back: (A'Obeyd, S, K:) originally, it seems, in the sense of مَلْحُوب, as though meaning “ peeled ”by travel; and afterwards, its original attributive character being forgotten among a people, used without ة [when not preceded by the noun which it qualifies, as when preceded by that noun]. (TA.) لَاحِبٌ: see لَحْبٌ.مِلْحَبٌ Anything with which a thing is cut or peeled: (S, K:) cutting, or sharp, iron. (TA.) b2:  (assumed tropical:)  A great reviler, or vilifier, of obscene tongue. (S, K.) b3:  (assumed tropical:)  A chaste, or an eloquent, tongue. (T.) مَلْحُوبٌ Smooth, and sloping downwards: an epithet applied to the portion next the back-bone, on either side, [or to the rump,] of a horse. (TA.) [See an ex. voce قُصْبٌ.] b2:  A man of little flesh; emaciated: as though peeled. (TA.) مُلَحَّبٌ Cut in pieces: syn. مُقَطَّعٌ. (S.) b2: See لَحْبٌ.