Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon

قَرِدٌ

Root: قرد

Full Definition

قَرِدٌ Wool sticking together, and compacted in a lump or lumps: wool, and hair, contracted together, and knotted in its extremities.
2 [Hence,] a cloud, or collection of clouds, dissundered, in the tracts of the sky, in parts, or portions, one upon another; cirro-cumulus: or of which the several portions are compacted together, one upon another; likened to soft hair such as is thus termed: or compacted in lumps, not smooth; as also مُتَقَرِّدٌ . See also قَرِدٌ.
3 قَرِدُ الخَصِيلِ A horse [compact in frame;] not lax.

def.2 A camel [&c.] abounding with قِرْدَان [or ticks].

def.3 And قَرِدٌ [an epithet used as a subst.] Accumulated foam which the camel casts forth from his mouth. (TA in art. توج. See an ex. in that art. voce مَتَاوِجُ.)


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