عَايَنْتُهُ
1.
, verbal noun عيَانٌ, (S, Msb) and مُعَايَنَةٌ, (Msb), I saw it [or him] with my eye [or eyes, ocularly, or before my eyes]; (S;) [or I viewed with my eye, and faced, or confronted, him, or it; for ] المُعَايَنَةُ signifies the viewing with the eye, and facing, or confronting. (TA.) [See also 5.] You say, لَقِيَهُ عِيَانًا, thus in copies of the K; but in some copies عِيَنَةً, with fet-h to the second and third letters and with kesr to the ع, and thus according to Lh, (TA,) i. e. [He met him] eye to eye (مُعَايَنَةً), [or face to face,] not doubting of his seeing him. (K,TA.)
2.
See also 1.
3.
مُعَايَنَةٌ signifies also (assumed tropical:) The dealing in buying and selling with ready money] which is termed عَيْنٌ]. (KL.)
4.
See also عَيْنٌ, in the third quarter of the paragraph.