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حَائِفٌ ذ Acting wrongfully, unjustly, injuriously, or tyrannically: (Lth, Msb, K: [in some copies of the K, حَائِرٌ is erroneously put for جَائِرٌ:] pl. حَافَةٌ (Msb, K) and حُيَّفٌ (K, Msb *) and حُيُفٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- An arrow declining from the right direction. (TA.) ― -b3- And, as being likened thereto, (tropical:) An impotent man, who does not attain the object of his want. (TA.) -A2- The side of a mountain. (K, TA.) [See also حِيفَةٌ.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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