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دَائِصٌ ذ A thief: pl. دَاصَةٌ. (S, K.) ― -b2- One who follows the magistrates, and goes round about a thing. (Ibn-'Abbád, K.) ― -b3- The pl., mentioned above, also signifies Men who flee from war, or battle: or who put themselves in motion for flight. (TA.) ― -b4- And The lowest or basest or meanest sort of mankind, or of people; because of their being much in commotion: (Kr, M:) one of such is termed دَائِصٌ. (M.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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