هَيْيءَةٌ
1.
and
هِيْيءَةٌ
Form, fashion, shape, aspect, or appearance; figure, person, mien, feature, or lineaments; (S, TA;) guise; or external state or condition; (Msb;) state with regard to apparel and the like; or garb; (Lth;) state, condition, or case; quality, mode or manner of being: (K:) plural هَيْاتٌ and هِيْاتٌ. (TA.)
2.
حَسَنُ الهَيْيءَةِ [of goodly form, aspect, or appearance, guise, state of apparel, garb, &c.]. (S.)
3.
[Also, goodliness of form &c.: see 1. See also سَمْتٌ, for an addition.]
4.
[هَيْيءَةٌ عَارِضَةٌ, in Logic, An accidental mode.]
5.
أَقِيلُوا ذَوِى الهَيْاتِ عَثَرَاتِهِمْ, in a tradition, signifies, Forgive ye the people of good qualities &c., who keep to one state and way, their slips. It alludes to those who make a slip unwittingly. (TA.)