فَارِعٌ

[Overtopping, or surpassing in height or tallness: this seems to be the primary signification]. You say جَبَلٌ فَارِعٌ A mountain higher, or taller, than what is next to it. (S, O.)

And High, or tall; applied to a man, and to an extended gibbous piece of sand. (TA.)

And High, or elevated; goodly in form or aspect or appearance; beautiful: (Aboo-'Adnán, O, K:) or [simply] high [apparently in rank or dignity]: (IAar, O:) and also low, ignoble, or mean: (IAar, O, K:) thus having two contr. significations. (O, K.)

And a man of the Arabs said, ↓ لَقِيتُ فُلَانًا فَارِعًا مُفْرِعًا, meaning [I met such a one] one of us ascending and the other descending. (S, O, TA.)

-A2- Also singular of فَرَعَةٌ, which signifies The armed attendants, or guards, of the Sultán, or sovereign: (O, K, TA:) it is like وَازِعٌ. (TA.)