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أَخِيذٌ ذ i. q. ↓ مَأْخُوذٌ [Taken; taken with the hand; &c.]. (Msb.) ― -b2- A captive: (S, L, Msb, K:) fem. with ة. (S, L.) Hence the saying, أَكْذَبُ مِنْ أَخِيذِ الجَيشِ More lying than the captive of the army: meaning him whom his enemies have taken captive, and whom they desire to conduct them to his people, and who lies to them to his utmost. (Fr, L.) [See another ex. voce صَبْحَانُ.] ― -b3- A strange, or foreign, old man. (K.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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