عَاثِرٌ

[Stumbling, or tripping; &c.

And] (assumed tropical:) A liar. (TA.)

And one says also جَدٌّ عَاثِرٌ (assumed tropical:) [Fortune, or good fortune, in a falling state: (see 1, near the end:)] plural عَوَاثِرُ: (TA:)

or this may be pl of عَاثِرٌ signifying The snare of a sportsman:

or it may be plural of ↓ عَاثِرَةٌ signifying (assumed tropical:) An accident that destroys, or causes to be overcome, him whom it befalls: (O:)

or it may be plural of عَاثُورٌ [q. v.], the ى being suppressed, (O, TA,) by poetic license, in a verse in which it occurs. (TA.)