[One who picks, or separates, money, and puts forth the bad; who picks, or separates, good money from bad:] who examines money, to pick, or separate the good from the bad: [as also ↓نَقَّادٌ:] plural نُقَّادٌ (Msb) [and نَقَدَةٌ].
2.
[نَاقِدُ شِعْرٍ, and ↓نَقَّادُهُ (tropical:) One who picks out the faults of poetry; and, the ↓ latter, one who is accustomed to do so.]
3.
هُوَ مِنْ نَقَدَةِ الشِّعْرِ and مِنْ نُقَّادِهِ, (tropical:) [He is one of those who pick out the faults of poetry]. (A.)