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أَغْيَدُ ذ A plant, or herbage, soft, or tender, and bending. (L, K.) ― -b2- And (tropical:) A place abounding with plants, or herbage, (O, K, TA,) bending by reason of softness. (O.) ― -b3- Also A man, and a gazelle, having a bending neck, and limber sides: or having a lax, or limber, neck. (L.) And [the fem.] غَيْدَآءُ (L, K) A woman (L) who bends her body, or affects a bending thereof, by reason of her softness, or limberness. (L, K.) See also غَادٌ. ― -b4- Also Drowsy, and having a bending of the neck: (S, A, L, K:) fem. غَيْدَآءُ: (TA:) and pl. غِيدٌ. (L.) الكَرَى الأَغْيَدُ, occurring in a verse cited voce صُبَابَةٌ [q. v.], means (tropical:) Drowsiness that makes one to bend the neck from side to side. (L, TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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