قَايءِدٌ

A leader of horses: (L:) and (assumed tropical:) of an army: (Mgh, Msb:) plural قُوَّادٌ and قَادَةٌ (S, Mgh, L, Msb, K) and قُوَّدٌ; (K;) and plural of قَادَةٌ, قَادَاتٌ. (Mgh.)

قَايءِدَةٌ [A she-camel] that precedes the other camels [or leads them on,] and with which the young ones keep company. (L.)

سَحَابٌ قَايءِدٌ (tropical:) A cloud, or clouds, leading on rain. (L.)

قَايءِدَةٌ (tropical:) A wind [رِيحٌ] leading on a cloud, or clouds. (A.)

-A2- قَايءِدٌ (tropical:) Extending along the surface of the ground; applied to a mountain, and a dyke, (T, L,) and a tract of land [&c.]: (K:) and so ↓ مُنْقَادٌ, applied to a mountain, (the Lexicons passim,) and a tract of land, and of sand. (L.)

A prominent part of a mountain (JK, L, K) extending upon the surface of the ground. (JK.)

قَايءِدَةٌ A hill of the kind termed أَكَمَة extending upon the surface of the ground: (L, K:) or a hill cleaving to the ground. (IAar, in TA, article خشع.)

-A3- قَايءِدٌ The largest of the channels for irrigation (فُلْجَان) of a land ploughed for sowing. (L, K.) [In the CK, الحَارِث is put for الحَرْث.] ISd says, that he assigns it to this article only because و is more common than ى. (L.) [Pl. قَوَايءِدُ, occuring in the L and TA, voce أَعْرَافٌ.]

-A4- القَايءِدُ The last star [ η] in the tail of Ursa Major, بَنَاتِ نَعْشٍ الكُبْرَى: in the K, الصُّغْرَى, but this is a mistake. (TA.) [The star (ζ) which is the middle one of the three in the tail of that constellation is called العَنَاقٌ, and by the side of it is the obscure star called السُّهَى, and also called الصَّيْدَقُ, and, as is said in the TA, نُعَيْشٌ; and the third of those three, next the body, is called الحَوَرُ In the K, a strange description is given of these stars: it is there said, الأَوَّلُ مِنْ بَنَاتِ نَعْشٍ الصُّغْرَى الذى هو [القَايءِدُ] و اخِرُهَا قَايءِدٌ وَالثَّانِى عَنَاقٌ وَإِلَى جَانِبِهِ قَايءِدٌ صَغِيرٌ و ثَانِيهِ عَنَاقٌ وَإِلَى جَانِبِهِ الصَّيْدَقُ وهو السُّهَى والثَّالِثُ الحَوَرُ.]

The قَوَايءِدُ, among the northern stars, are, it is said, four stars forming an irregular quadrilateral figure, distant one from another, [as though ε, ζ, η π of Hercules,] in the midst of which is an obscure star, resembling a soil, and called الرُّبَعُ, they being likened to she-camels with a young one such as is called رُبَعٌ: they are on the left of النَّسْرُ الوَاقِعُ [a Lyræ], between it and بَنَاتُ نَعْشٍ. (TA.) [But قَوَايءِدُ, here, is evidently a mistake for عَوَايءِذُ.]