حَادٍ

Driving or a driver [of camels; or urging or exciting them, or one who urges or excites them, by singing to them: see 1]: (Mgh:) plural حُدَاةٌ. (TA.) You say رَجُلٌ حَادٍ, and حَدَّاءٌ [which latter is an intensive epithet]. (K.)

It is also applied to a [wild] he-ass, as meaning Driving before him his she-asses. (S, * TA.) He is said to be حَادِى ثَلَاثٍ [A driver before him of three she-asses], (S, TA,) and حَادِى ثَمَانٍ [a driver before him of eight she-asses]. (TA.)

حَادِى النَّجْمِ [lit. The driver, or urger, of the asterism] means الدَّبَرَانُ [i. e. (assumed tropical:) the Hyades; or the five chief stars thereof; or the brightest star thereof, a of Taurus]: (TA:) and so حَادِى النُّجُومِ [lit. the driver, or urger, of the stars]. (S voce مِجْدَحٌ.)

الحَوَادِى [plural of the feminine الحَادِيَةُ] means (assumed tropical:) The hind legs; because they follow the fore legs. (K.) And (assumed tropical:) The latter or hinder, or the last, or hindmost, parts or portions of anything. (Az, TA.)

حَادٍ is also the act. particle n. of حَدَا as synonym with تحدّى; and thus means Aiming at a thing; &c. (AA, TA.)

حَادِىَ عَشَرَ, &c.: see article وحد.