خَيْدَعٌ

[Hence,] (tropical:) A wolf that acts deceitfully, or mischievously; or that practises artifice. (Z, Sgh, K. [In the CK, المُخْتَالُ is erroneously put for المُحْتَالُ.])

Also A person in whose love, or affection, no confidence is placed. (K.)

And hence, (TA,) الخَيْدَعُ is also applied to (tropical:) The mirage; (S, K, TA;) according to some. (S.) You say, غَرَّهُمُ الخَيْدَعُ (tropical:) The mirage deceived them. (TA.)

[For the same reason,] it is also applied to (assumed tropical:) The cat. (IB.)

And from the former of the last two meanings is derived the phrase (TA) غُولٌ خَيْدَعٌ (S, K, TA) (tropical:) (tropical:) A very deceitful, or guileful, ghool; (K, TA;) so that it is doubly tropical. (TA.)

طَرِيقٌ خَيْدَعٌ: see خَادِعٌ; in the latter part of the paragraph.