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عَمِيدٌ

Root: عمد

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عَمِيدٌ : see عُمْدَةٌ
2 and see also عَمُودٌ, first quarter.
3 Also A man sick, or very sick, so that he cannot sit unless propped up by cushions placed at his sides.
4 Also, and مَعْمُودٌ , and , A man broken, or enervated, by the passion of love; and in like manner all the three are applied to a heart: or the first and second signify a man whose عَمُود of his heart is severed: or a man much distressed, or afflicted, by love; likened to a camel's hump of which the interior is broken: (L. [See عَمِدَ:]) and مَعْمُودٌ signifies diseased, or sick.
5 See also عَمُودٌ, last sentence.

def.2 عَمِيدُ الوَجَعِ The place of pain.
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