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صَيَدٌ ذ (S, M, A, L, K) and ↓ صِيدٌ , with kesr, (K,) or ↓ صَيْدٌ , (L,) and ↓ صَادٌ , (M, * L, K,) A certain disease in a camel's head, in consequence of which he raises it: (S:) a certain disease which causes a camel to raise his head: or a certain disease in a camel's head, which causes his neck to twist: (M:) or a certain disease which attacks camels in the head, in consequence of which there flows from their noses what resembles froth, or foam, and they raise their heads: (ISk, L, K: *) or a certain disease in a camel's neck, in consequence of which he is unable to turn his face aside: it is said that its cure is burning with a hot iron (A, TA) between the eyes: (TA:) [for] it arises from a vein between the eyes, called صَاد. (K.) [Hence,] also صَيَدٌ, (M, * A,) and ↓ صَادٌ , (M,) Fixedness of the face of a king, so that it does not turn aside (M, A) to the right or left, by reason of pride. (A. [See also صَيِدَ, of which it is the inf. n.]) [And the former, (tropical:) An inclination, or bending, of the neck: (see صَيِدَ:) hence,] one says, لَأُقِيمَنَّ صَيَدَكَ (tropical:) [I will assuredly straighten the bending of thy neck: or I will assuredly rectify thy proud stiffness]. (A.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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