صعل doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 3 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• صَعِلَ Form 1

  1 صَعِلَ ذ , aor. صَعَلَ , (K,) inf. n. صَعَلٌ, (TA,) He, or it, was, or became, such as is termed صَعْلٌ and أَصْعَلُ meaning as expl. below; as also . (K, TA.) One says, النَّخْلَةُ meaning The palm-tree was, or became…

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• صَعْلٌ

  صَعْلٌ ذ Small in the head; applied to a man, (As, S, O,) and to an ostrich; (S, O;) as also ; (O;) and applied to a woman: (S:) or small in the head and long and slender in the neck; applied to a man: (Sh, TA:) or صَعْل…

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• صَعَلٌ

  صَعَلٌ ذ Slenderness. (S, O.)…

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