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سَدٍ ذ [originally سَدِىٌ] Moist; applied in this sense to anything. (AHn, M.) ― -b2- And [particularly] Moist with dew, [or with night-dew, or with much thereof,] applied to a place. (M.) And you say أَرْضٌ سَدِيَةٌ A land moist with much night-dew. (S, Msb.) And لَيْلَةٌ سَدِيَةٌ A night moist with much dew: (M, * TA:) the epithet [سَدٍ] is seldom applied to a day. (M, TA.) ― -b3- And بَلَحٌ سَدٍ Dates in the state in which they are termed بَلَح, (S, M, K,) accord. to As, when they have fallen, (T, TA,) that have become lax in their ثَفَارِيق [or bases, so as to be easily detached therefrom], (As, T, S, M, K,) and moist: (As, T, M:) one thereof [i. e. a بَلَحَة] is termed سَدِيَةٌ: (As, T, TA:) the ثُفْرُوق is the قِمَع of the بُسْرَة [or بَلَحَة]. (TA.) You say also بَسْرٌ سَدٍ; and بُسْرَةٌ سَدِيَةٌ, which is the same as ↓ سَدَاةٌ [expl. above, voce سَدًى]. (S.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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