سُدُوفٌ

[a plural of which the singular is apparently سَدَفٌ, like شَدَفٌ,] The corporeal forms or figures or substances of men or other things which one sees from a distance: (K:) according to Sgh, (TA,) correctly with ش: (K, TA:) but the truth is, that they are two dialect vars. (TA.)