حَائِرٌ

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حَائِرٌ : see حَيْرَانُ, in two places.
2 Also A place in which water collects and goes to and fro: a watering-trough, or tank, to which a stream of rain-water flows: or what resembles a watering-trough, or tank, in which the rain-water collects and remains: a depressed place in which water collects and remains, or goes round, or goes to and fro, not passing forth from it: or a place in the ground depressed in the middle and having elevated edges or borders, in which is water: (TA voce يَعْبُوبٌ:) and hence, a garden; as also حَيْرٌ ; which is the form used by most persons, and by the vulgar; like as they say عَيْشةُ for عَائِشَةُ: or this form is wrong: it is disallowed by AHn, notwithstanding its being mentioned by A 'Obeyd; but he mentions it only in one place, and it is not found in every copy of his work: pl. حِيرَانٌ and حُورَانٌ. Hassán Ibn-Thábit uses the phrase حَائِرُ البَحْرِ [in a verse which I have cited in the first paragraph of art. رب, app. as meaning The depth of the sea; or part of the sea in which is a confluence of the water, and where it goes round, or to and fro].

def.2 Also Grease; oily animal matter, that flows from flesh or fat.

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