قَرِدٌ
1.
Wool sticking together, and compacted in a lump or lumps: (A:) wool, and hair, contracted together, and knotted in its extremities. (L.)
2.
[Hence,] a cloud, or collection of clouds, dissundered, in the tracts of the sky, in parts, or portions, one upon another; cirro-cumulus: (S, L:) or of which the several portions are compacted together, (M, K,) one upon another; likened to soft hair such as is thus termed: (M:) or compacted in lumps, not smooth; as also
مُتَقَرِّدٌ. (AHn.) See also قَرِدٌ.
4.
A camel [&c.] abounding with قِرْدَان [or ticks]. (K.)
5.
And قَرِدٌ [an epithet used as a subst.] Accumulated foam which the camel casts forth from his mouth. (TA in article توج. See an example in that article voce مَتَاوِجُ.)