سلاءی

सलाई salā`ī[S. शलाका+इका], s.f. A piece of wire, a needle, a probe, any pointed surgical instrument; a catheter; a bodkin; a large needle used for tinging the eyes with collyrium; a piece of wire, or needle, etc. used to deprive a person of sight (by drawing it, while hot, over the eyes); a lead-pencil; a brimstone match; a line, streak, stripe:—salā`īphernā(-par), To pass a red-hot wire or needle, etc. (across the eyes of a person), to deprive of sight, to blind:—salā`ī-dār, adj. Streaked, striped, twilled (as cloth).