قَائِدٌ

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قَائِدٌ A leader of horses: and of an army: pl. قُوَّادٌ and قَادَةٌ and قُوَّدٌ; and pl. of قَادَةٌ, قَادَاتٌ.
2 قَائِدَةٌ [A she-camel] that precedes the other camels [or leads them on,] and with which the young ones keep company.
3 سَحَابٌ قَائِدٌ A cloud, or clouds, leading on rain.
4 قَائِدَةٌ A wind [رِيحٌ] leading on a cloud, or clouds.

def.2 قَائِدٌ Extending along the surface of the ground; applied to a mountain, and a dyke, and a tract of land [&c.]: and so مُنْقَادٌ , applied to a mountain, and a tract of land, and of sand.
2 A prominent part of a mountain extending upon the surface of the ground.
3 قَائِدَةٌ A hill of the kind termed أَكَمَة extending upon the surface of the ground: or a hill cleaving to the ground. (IAar, in TA, art. خشع.)

def.3 قَائِدٌ The largest of the channels for irrigation (فُلْجَان) of a land ploughed for sowing. [In the CK, الحَارِث is put for الحَرْث.] ISd says, that he assigns it to this art. only because و is more common than ى. [Pl. قَوَائِدُ, occuring in the L and TA, voce أَعْرَافٌ.]

def.4 القَائِدُ The last star [ η] in the tail of Ursa Major, بَنَاتِ نَعْشٍ الكُبْرَى: in the K, الصُّغْرَى, but this is a mistake. [The star which is the middle one of the three in the tail of that constellation is called العَنَاقٌ, and by the side of it is the obscure star called السُّهَى, and also called الصَّيْدَقُ, and, as is said in the TA, نُعَيْشٌ; and the third of those three, next the body, is called الحَوَرُ In the K, a strange description is given of these stars: it is there said, الأَوَّلُ مِنْ بَنَاتِ نَعْشٍ الصُّغْرَى الذى هو [القَائِدُ] و آخِرُهَا قَائِدٌ وَالثَّانِى عَنَاقٌ وَإِلَى جَانِبِهِ قَائِدٌ صَغِيرٌ و ثَانِيهِ عَنَاقٌ وَإِلَى جَانِبِهِ الصَّيْدَقُ وهو السُّهَى والثَّالِثُ الحَوَرُ.]
2 The قَوَائِدُ, among the northern stars, are, it is said, four stars forming an irregular quadrilateral figure, distant one from another, [as though ε, ζ, η π of Hercules,] in the midst of which is an obscure star, resembling a soil, and called الرُّبَعُ, they being likened to she-camels with a young one such as is called رُبَعٌ: they are on the left of النَّسْرُ الوَاقِعُ [a Lyræ], between it and بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ. [But قَوَائِدُ, here, is evidently a mistake for عَوَائِذُ.]

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