فَرِيدٌ
Root: فرد
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فَرِيدٌ
: see فَرْدٌ, former half, in two places: and see فُرَادٌ.
2 Also i. q. شَذْرٌ [app. as meaning The beads that divide the other beads of a string]; in the language of the 'Ajam [app. meaning Persians] called جَاوَرْسَق [a word I do not find in any dictionary]: accord. to Ibráheem El-Harbee, شَذْر of silver, like pearls: or شَذْر that divide the pearls and gold: and pearls that are strung, and divided by other things interposed: or pearls that divide the pieces of gold in a necklace: one thereof is termed فَرِيدَةٌ : pl. فَرَائِدُ. And A precious, or highly-esteemed, gem; as also فَرِيدَةٌ ; as though it were the only one of its kind; or so called because unequalled; or because [it is a pearl] found alone in its shell: and as some say, الدُّرِّ signifies the large pearls.
3 Also The intermediate vertebræ between the last of the six vertebræ that are next to the دَأْى [q. v.] of the neck and the six that are between these فَرِيد and the [rump-bone called the] عَجْب; as also : or فَرِيدَةٌ [the sing.] signifies the vertebra that projects from the part, of the back of a horse, that is next to the lumbar vertebrœ; intervening between the dorsal vertebræ and the lumbar: it projects in some horses.
2 Also i. q. شَذْرٌ [app. as meaning The beads that divide the other beads of a string]; in the language of the 'Ajam [app. meaning Persians] called جَاوَرْسَق [a word I do not find in any dictionary]: accord. to Ibráheem El-Harbee, شَذْر of silver, like pearls: or شَذْر that divide the pearls and gold: and pearls that are strung, and divided by other things interposed: or pearls that divide the pieces of gold in a necklace: one thereof is termed فَرِيدَةٌ : pl. فَرَائِدُ. And A precious, or highly-esteemed, gem; as also فَرِيدَةٌ ; as though it were the only one of its kind; or so called because unequalled; or because [it is a pearl] found alone in its shell: and as some say, الدُّرِّ signifies the large pearls.
3 Also The intermediate vertebræ between the last of the six vertebræ that are next to the دَأْى [q. v.] of the neck and the six that are between these فَرِيد and the [rump-bone called the] عَجْب; as also : or فَرِيدَةٌ [the sing.] signifies the vertebra that projects from the part, of the back of a horse, that is next to the lumbar vertebrœ; intervening between the dorsal vertebræ and the lumbar: it projects in some horses.
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