وَصِيدٌ
Root: وصد
Full Definition
2 A threshold of a door or entrance.
3 A door, or entrance. See وِصَادٌ.
4 It has the first of these meanings in the Kur, xviii. 17; or the second: or the third: or it there means The cavern of the Asháb el-Kahf.
5 Also, وَصِيدٌ, or وَصِيدَةٌ , [as also أَصِيدَةٌ,] A fold (حَظِيرَة) for sheep or goats: or a house like a حظيرة, of stones, made in the mountains, for flocks or herds; i. e., for sheep or goats &c.: an enclosure like a حظيرة, made for flocks or herds, excepting that it is of stones, and a حظيرة [is] of branches of trees: F, misunderstanding this explanation, has erroneously said in the K, that وَصِيدٌ also signifies a حظيرة of branches of trees: pl. وَصَائِدُ.
6 [Snares, or traps, for catching beasts of prey: see رَصَائِدُ in art. رصد.]
7 وَصِيدٌ Herbage having the roots near together.
8 وَصِيدٌ
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