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عَمِدٌ ذ Earth moistened by rain so that when a portion of it is grasped in the hand it becomes compacted by reason of its moisture: (S, O, L:) or moistened by rain and compacted, layer upon layer. (L.) ― -b2- [Hence] one says, هُوَ عَمِدُ الثَّرَى ??ndant in goodness, beneficence, or bounty. (AZ, Sh, O, K.) ― -b3- عَمِدٌ is also applied to a camel, meaning Having the inner part of his hump broken [or bruised] by his being [much] ridden, while the outer part remains whole, or sound: (S, O, L:) or having his hump swollen in consequence of the galling of the saddle and of the cloth beneath it, and broken [or bruised]: fem. with ة: and, with ة, a she-camel broken, or subdued, by the weight of her burden. (L.) Lebeed says, describing rain (S, O, L) that caused the valleys to flow, (S,) “ فَبَاتَ السَّيْلُ يَرْكَبُ جَانِبَيْهِ
مِنَ البَقَّارِ كَالعَمِدِ الثَّقَالِ
” [And the torrent continued during the night, what resembled the heavy, or slow-paced, camel such as is termed عَمِد overlying its two sides, from the valley of El-Bakkár]: As says, he means that a collection of clouds resembling the [camel termed] عَمِد overlay the two sides of the torrent; i. e., that clouds encompassed it with rain. (S, O, L.) ― -b4- Also, applied to a pustule, Swollen in consequence of its having been squeezed before it had become ripe, and retaining its egg [or white globule]. (L.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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