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عِرْبَدٌّ ذ , (S, O, K,) quasi-coordinate to جِرْدَحْلٌ, (S, O,) and عِرْبِدٌّ, (K,) A serpent that blows but does not hurt; (S, O, K;) accord. to Aboo-Kheyreh and ISh, (TA,) or Sh, (O,) a serpent of a red colour with dusky and black specks, (O, TA,) always appearing among us, (O,) that does not hurt, (TA,) or that seldom injures small or great, (O,) unless it be hurt: (O, TA:) or a red and malignant, or noxious, serpent; (O, K;) for a man, in some verses cited by IAar, likens himself, in his treatment of his enemies, to this serpent; and how should he describe himself as a serpent that blows at the enemies and does not hurt them? (TA:) and, (K,) or the former word, accord. to Sh, (O,) the male viper: (O, K:) and the former, accord. to Th, a light, or an active, serpent: (L:) or so ↓ عِرْبِدٌ : (TA:) or this last signifies the serpent [absolutely]. (IAar, O, K.) ― -b2- Also the former word, (O, K,) and the latter, (K,) i. q. شَدِيدٌ [app. as meaning Vehement, or the like], applied to anything: (O, K:) accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, the latter is applied in this sense to anger. (O.) -A2- Also both words, (K,) or, accord. to Ibn-'Abbád, the latter, (O,) Custom, habit, or wont: (O, K:) but app. mistranscribed for عَرِيدٌ. (TA.) ― -b2- And one says, رَكِبْتُ عِرْبَدِّى, (K, TA,) or عِرْبِدِّى, (Ibn-'Abbád, O,) meaning I went without pausing, or waiting, for anything: (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, K, TA:) or I followed my own opinion. (TA in art. عصد.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.

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