[Hence] ذُو فَيْيءَةٍ a term applied to Date-stones (نَوَى التَّمْرِ) when they are hard: [because,] being given as fodder to cattle, and eaten by them, they pass forth as they were at first. (T, TA.)
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-A2- Also A time; synonym حِينٌ. (K.) One says, جَاءَهُ بَعْدَ فَيْيءَةٍHe came to him after a time. (TA.)
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And The حِدَأَة [or kite], that seizes as its prey the chickens from the dwellings: (O:) or a certain bird resembling the eagle, (L, K,) which, when it fears the cold, migrates to El-Yemen. (L.)