أَصْيَدُ

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أَصْيَدُ [More, or most, wont, or able, to take, or capture, or catch, game, or prey]. أَصْيَدُ مِنْ لَيْثِ عِفِرِّينَ وَمِنْ ضَيْوَنٍ [More wont, or able, to capture prey than the lion of 'Ifirreen and than the he-cat] is a prov.

def.2 Also A camel having the disease termed صَيَد; and so صَادٌ , for ذُو صَادٍ, like مَالٌ for ذُو مَالٍ, or for صَيِدٌ : pl. of the first صِيدٌ. [Hence,] A man unable to look aside, by reason of disease. A man who raises his head by reason of pride. A king who looks not aside, to the right or left, by reason of his pride. A king: originally used in relation to a camel, and a king is so called because he raises his head by reason of pride, or because he does not look to the right or left. And A man having an inclining, or a bending, neck.
2 الأَصْيَدُ The lion; because he walks proudly, not looking aside, as though he had the disease termed صَيَد; as also [as act. part. n. of 8]; and ; thus likened to a camel having the disease above mentioned; or, as in some copies of the K, not الصَّادُ, but .

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