عَائِرٌ

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عَائِرٌ Anything that causes disease in the eye, and wounds: so called because the eye becomes closed on account of it, and the person cannot see, the eye being as it were blinded: ophthalmia; syn. رَمَدٌ; as also عُوَّارٌ : which latter also signifies foul, thick, white matter, that collects in the inner corner of the eye; not fluid; syn. رَمَصٌ: or both signify a fluid matter that makes the eye smart, as though a mote, or the like, had fallen into it: and both signify a mote, or the like, in the eye: or عَائِرٌ signifies pimples, or small pustules, in the lower eyelid: a subst., not an Verbal.Noun, nor an act. part. n.: the pl. of عُوَّارٌ is عَوَاوِيرُ, and, by poetic license, عَوَاوِرُ. One says بِعَيْنِهِ عُوَّارٌ , meaning, In his eye is a mote, or the like.
2 عَيْنٌ عَائِرَةٌ An eye in which is the fluid matter called : but when the eye has this, you do not say of it عَارَتْ.
3 عَائِرُ العَيْنِ What fills, or satisfies, the eye (مَا يَمْلَؤُهَا), of مَال [meaning camels or the like], so as almost to put it out; and in like manner عَائِرَةُ عَيْنَيْنِ. One says, عِنْدَهُ مِنَ المَالِ عَائِرَةُ عَيْنٍ, or عَائِرَةُ عَيْنَيْنِ and عَيْنَيْنِ, (K, but with عَلَيْهِ in the place of عِنْدَهُ, and in the CK عِتْرَةُ is put for عَيِّرَةُ,) both of these mentioned by Lh, i. e. [He has, of camels or the like], what fill, or satisfy, (تَمْلَأُ,) his sight by the multitude thereof; or that at which the sight is confounded, or perplexed, by reason of the multitude thereof, as though it filled, or satisfied, the eye, and put it out: [and A'Obeyd says the like:] or, accord. to As, the Arab in the Time of Ignorance used, when his camels amounted to a thousand, to put out an eye of one of them; and hence, by عَائِرَةُ العَيْنِ they meant a thousand camels, whereof one had an eye put out.

def.2 عَائِرٌ also signifies An arrow of which the shooter is not known; and in like manner, a stone: pl. عَوَائِرُ: عَوَائِرُ نَبْلٍ means arrows in a scattered state, of which one knows not whence they have come. [See also art. عير.] And عَوَائِرُ and عِيرَانٌ signify Swarms of locusts in a scattered state:

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