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أَسِدٌ ذ (tropical:) [Like a lion;] bold; daring; as also ↓ أَسِيدٌ and ↓ مُتَأَسِّدٌ [and ↓ مُسْتَأْسِدٌ (see 10)]. (Msb.) You say أَسَدٌ أَسِدٌ [A bold, or fierce, lion], adding the latter word to give intensiveness of signification. (IAar, M.) ― -b2- [Its fem.] أَسِدَةٌ [app. applied to a bitch] signifies (assumed tropical:) Accustomed, or habituated, [to the chase,] and emboldened; syn. ضَارِيَةٌ. (K, TA, in the CK صارِيَة.) [See also 10.]
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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