طَيَّارٌ
1.
2.
See also مُسْتَطِيرٌ.
3.
Also A company of men. (O.)
4.
As applied to A balance, it is not of the language of the Arabs: (O:) [i. e., it is post-classical:] it means an assay-balance (مِيزَانٌ and مَعْيَارٌ) for gold; so called because of the form of a bird, or because of its lightness: or the balance for dirhems [or moneys] that is known among them [who use it] by the appellation of the
قارسطون [meaning the
χαριστίων of Archimedes, (as is observed in a note in p. 178 of vol. ii. of the sec. ed. of Har,) i. e. the hydrostatic balance]: or, according to El-Fenjedeehee, the tongue (لِسَات) of the balance. (Har pp. 549-50.)