خَافِيَةٌ
1.
opposite of عَلَانِيَةٌ [apparently meaning that it signifies A state of being unapparent or not apparent, covert, secret, private, or clandestine: though explained in the TK (followed by Freytag) as an epithet applied to a man, meaning whose actions are always covert]. (K.)
2.
See also خَفًا.
3.
And see خَافٍ, in four places.
4.
Also One, i. e. a single feather, of the feathers called
الخَوَافِى: (TA:) الخَوَافِى signifies the feathers below the ten that are in the fore part of the wing: (As, S:) or certain feathers that are concealed when the bird contracts its wing: (K:) or the four feathers that are [next] after those called
المَنَاكِب, (Lh, K, *) and next before those called
الأَبَاهِر: (S in article بهر, and L in article نكب:) or seven feathers in the wing, after the seven foremost: (K, * TA:) but the people [generally] mention them as four: or they are the small feathers in the wing of a bird. (TA.) خَنْجَرٌ
مِثْلُ خَافِيَةِ النَّسْرِ [A dagger like the
خافية
of the vulture], occurring in a tradition, means a small
خنجر. (TA.) One says also خَافِيَةُ الغُرَابِ [The
خافية
of the crow]: and the plural is [sometimes expressed by using the coll. gen. n., saying] الغُرَابِ
خَافِى. (JK.)