عِصْوَادٌ
1.
Evil, or mischief, arising from slaughter; or mutual reviling; or clamour; so in the phrase, تَرَكْتُهُمْ فِى عِصْوَادٍ [I left them in a state of evil, &c.]: (TA:) or clamour and confusion in war or altercation; as also
عَصْوَادٌ: (M, TA:) or clamour in trial or affliction: (Lth, TA:) or a formidable, or terrible, case; (S, K;) so in the phrase, وَقَعُوا فِى عِصْوَادٍ [They fell into a formidable, or terrible, case]: (S:) and هُمْ فِى
عِصْوَادٍ [They are in a formidable, or terrible, case]: (K:) or you say, هُمْ فِى عِصْوَادٍ بَيْنَهُمْ
They are in trials, or afflictions, and altercations. (TA.)
2.
Also, and
عُصْوَادٌ, A man, and a woman, difficult, or stubborn, hard, and evil, or mischievous: (O, K:) applied to a woman, evil, or mischievous; (O;) or very evil or mischievous. (TA.) [Pl. عَصَاوِيدُ.] You say, قَوْمٌ عَصَاوِيدُ فِى الحَرْبِ
A people who cleave to their adversaries in war, (O, K,) and will not quit them. (O.)
3.
And عَصَاوِيدُ
الكَلَامِ
Distorted language; (O, K;) [as though] heaped together, one part upon another. (TA.) And عَصَاوِيدُ الظَّلَامِ
Confused (O, * TA) and dense darkness. (O, * K, TA.) And in like manner عِصاويد is used in relation to camels: (K:) one says, جَاءَت الإِبِلُ عَصَاوِيدَ
The camels came pressing, or crowding, one upon another: (S, O:) and according to Ibn-'Abbád, came in a state of dis-
persion. (O.)