made a fair copy (بَيَّضَ)
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التعريف :
- made a fair copy of the book: to produce an edited and corrected copy of the book, taken from his first draft.
المعنى الاصطلاحي :
It is what female animals such as birds and fish lay, from which their offspring emerge.
التعريف اللغوي المختصر :
"Bayd" (sing. baydah): It is what a female bird (etc) lays from which their offspring emerge after hatching. Derived from "bayād", which means the color white.