و • د • ى

He gave the bloodwit to the heir, or next of kin, of the slain person. (Msb.)

inf. n. مُوَادَاةٌ, He took [from him] the دِيَة. (TA.) See 3 in art. عدو.

It destroyed him; (T;) it removed him, or took him away: (M, K:) said of death [&c.]. (T, M, K.) See an ex. in art. بلو, conj. 8, and another voce أَزْلَمُ. أَوْدَى: see a verse cited voce قَلَبَةٌ. أَوْدَى العَيْرُ إِلّا ضَرِطًا: see ضَرَطَ.

Bloodwit; a fine for bloodshed, i. e., homicide; consisting of a hundred camels. دِيَاتُ جِرَاحَاتٍ [Fines for wounds]. (S, M, TA, &c., in art. شنق.)

; pl. تَوَادٍ, in the accus. case, by poetic licence, تَوَادِيًا: see a verse cited voce خُفٌّ.

[A valley; a water-course, or torrent-bed: and sometimes a river;] a space intervening, (M, Msb, K,) i. e. any such space, (M, Msb,) between mountains or hills; (M, Msb, K;) through which a torrent runs forth [occasionally or constantly]: (Msb:) for which reason it is thus called. (M, Mgh, TA.) حَلَّ بِوَادِيهِ i. q. بَاعَِ عَلَى بَيْعِهِ in one of the senses explained in art. بيع; i. e., (tropical:) He superseded him, &c.

Small فَسِيل, q. v.; (S, Msb, K;) shoots, or offsets, cut off from palm-trees and planted: (Mgh:) young palm-trees. (TA.)