قرد
Root entry · 1 derived lemmaقَرِدٌ ذ Wool sticking together, and compacted in a lump or lumps: (A:) wool, and hair, contracted together, and knotted in its extremities. (L.) ― -b2- [Hence,] a cloud, or collection of clouds, dissundered, in the tracts of the sky, in parts, or portions, one upon another; cirro-cumulus: (S, L:) or of which the several portions are compacted together, (M, K,) one upon another; likened to soft hair such as is thus termed: (M:) or compacted in lumps, not smooth; as also ↓ مُتَقَرِّدٌ. (AHn.) See also قَرِدٌ. ― -b3- قَرِدُ الخَصِيلِ A horse [ compact in frame; ] not lax. (L, K.) -A2- A camel [&c.] abounding with قِرْدَان [or ticks ]. (K.) -A3- And قَرِدٌ [an epithet used as a subst.] Accumulated foam which the camel casts forth from his mouth. (TA in art. توج. See an ex. in that art. voce مَتَاوِجُ.)
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