جَرِيدَةٌ

n. un. of جَرِيدٌ as a coll. gen. n.: see the latter in four places.

Also feminine of the latter as an epithet.

Also (tropical:) A detachment of horsemen; a company of horsemen detached (جُرِّدَتْ, S, A) from the rest of the force, (S,) or from the main body of the horsemen, (A,) in some direction, or for same object: (S, A:) or a company of horsemen among whom are no footsoldiers, nor any of the baser sort, or of those of whom no account is made: (A:) or horsemen among whom are no foot-soldiers; (K;) as also ↓ جُرْدٌ [as though plural of أَجْرَدٌ], (K, TA,) with damm, (TA,) or ↓ جَرْدٌ. (So in the CK.) [See an example under the word بَيْتٌ, last sentence.]