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خَيْدَعٌ خيدع : see خَادِعٌ, first sentence. [Hence,] (tropical:) A wolf that acts deceitfully, or mischievously; or that practises artifice. (Z, Sgh, K. [In the CK, المُخْتَالُ is erroneously put for المُحْتَالُ.]) ― -b2- Also A person in whose love, or affection, no confidence is placed. (K.) ― -b3- And hence, (TA,) الخَيْدَعُ is also applied to (tropical:) The mirage; (S, K, TA;) accord. to some. (S.) You say, غَرَّهُمُ الخَيْدَعُ (tropical:) The mirage deceived them. (TA.) ― -b4- [For the same reason,] it is also applied to (assumed tropical:) The cat. (IB.) ― -b5- And from the former of the last two meanings is derived the phrase (TA) غُولٌ خَيْدَعٌ (S, K, TA) (tropical:) (tropical:) A very deceitful, or guileful, ghool; (K, TA;) so that it is doubly tropical. (TA.) ― -b6- طَرِيقٌ خَيْدَعٌ: see خَادِعٌ; in the latter part of the paragraph.
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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