هَدِبٌ
1.
A horse having a long forelock. The هدبان [plural of هَدِبٌ, but whether هِدْبَانٌ or هُدْبَانٌ is not shown,] are among those horses that are held in high estimation among the Arabs, and are distinguished as belonging to different tents, or house. (TA.)
2.
الهُدبُ (assumed tropical:) The lion. (K.) But according to Lth,
أَهْدَبُ, as an epithet applied to felt and the like, signifies (assumed tropical:) Having long nap, or villous substance (TA,) and as an epithet applied to a lion, according to the A, it signifies (tropical:) Having long shag [or shaggy hair]: (TA:) whence it is seen that the correct word [applied to the lion [أَهْدَبُ, q. v.] and هَدِبٌ. (TA.)