نقد1 نَقَدَ الدَّرَاهِمَ (S, A, L, Msb) aor. ـُ (L, Msb,) inf. n. نَقْدٌ (L, Msb, K) and تَنْقَادٌ; (L, K;) and ↓ انتقدها (S, L, Msb, K) and ↓ تنقّدها; (L, K:) He picked, or separated, the money, or pieces of money, (Lth, L, K,) and put forth the bad; (S, L, K;) he picked, or separated, the good money from the bad: (A:) he examined the money, or pieces of money, to pick, or separate, the good from the bad: (Msb:) and the verbs are used in the same sense with respect to other things than pieces of money. (K.) b2:  [نَقَدَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْدٌ, q. v. infra, He gave cash, or ready money; paid in cash, or ready money. Often used in this sense.] b3:  نَقَدَهُ الثَّمَنَ, aor. ـُ inf. n. نَقْدٌ; He gave him the price in cash, or ready money: (L:) or simply he gave him the price; as also نَقَدَ لَهُ الثَّمَنَ: (A:) and نَقَدَهُ الدَّرَاهِمَ, and نَقَدَ لَهُ الدَّرَاهِم, he gave him the money, or pieces of money. (S, L, Msb.) b4:  [Hence, from the first meaning,] نَقَدَ الكَلَامَ, [and الشِّعْرَ,] and so He picked out the faults of the language, [and of the poetry;] syn. نَاقَشَهُ. (TA.) b5:  ↓ اِنْتَقَدَ الشِعْرَ عَلَى قَائِلِهِ (tropical:)  [He picked out the faults of the poetry and urged them against its author.] (A.) b6:  نَقَدَهُ بِنَظَرِهِ, and نَقَدَ إِلَيْهِ, aor. ـُ (L,) inf. n. نَقْدٌ (L, K) (tropical:)  He looked furtively at, or towards it: (L, K: *) and so نقده بِعَيْبِهِ: (L:) and نقد بِعَيْنِهِ اليه he continued looking furtively at, or towards, it: you say also, مَا زَالَ بَصَرُهُ يَنْقُدُ إِلَى ذٰلِكَ [his gaze ceased not to be furtively directed at, or towards, that]: as though likened to the look of a man picking, or separating, what is good from what is bad: (A:) and مَا زَالَ يَنْقُدُ بَصَرَهُ إِلَى الشَّىْءِ he ceased not to look at, or towards, the thing. (S, L.) A2:  يَقِدَ, (S, L,) [aor. ـَ inf. n. نَقَدٌ; (S, L, K;) and, as some say, نَقَدَ; (S, L;) It (a tooth, S, L, K, and a horn, T, L, and a hoof of a horse or the like, L,) became eroded, (T, S, L, K,) and much broken: (L, K:) and it (the hoof of a horse or the like) sealed off, part after part: (S, L:) it (the trunk of a tree) became wormeaten. (L.) 3 ناقدهُ (tropical:)  He reckoned with him to the utmost, syn. نَاقَشَهُ, (S, A, L, K,) فِى أَمْرٍ in, or respecting, an affair, (S, L,) [picking out his faults].4 انقد It (a tree) put forth its leaves. (L, K.) 5 تَنَقَّدَ see 1.8 انتقد الدَّرَاهِمَ He received the money, or pieces of money; (Lth, S, L, Msb, K;) and الثَّمَنَ the price. (A.) b2:  See 1.A2:  انتقد It (a worm) ate the trunk of a tree, and rendered it hollow. (L.) A3:  He (a boy) grew up into manhood. (K.) نَقْدٌ [properly an inf. n. used in the sense of a pass. part. n., and thus signifying “ paid,” Cash, or ready money: or simply money]. You say نَقْدٌ جَيِّدٌ [Good cash, or ready money: or good money]: pl. نُقُودٌ جِيَادٌ. (A.) التَّقْدَانِ signifies Silver and gold money; dirhems and deenárs. (TA in art. عرض.) b2:  نَقْدٌ Payment in cash, or ready money; contr. of نَسْيئَةٌ: (L, K:) the giving of نَقْد [i. e., cash, or ready money]: (K:) [an inf. n.: see 1]. b3:  الدِّرْهَمُ نَقْدٌ The piece of money is of full weight, (S, L, K, *) and good. (S, L.) b4:  هٰذِهِ مِائَةٌ نَقْدُ النَّاسِ [This is a hundred, ready money of the people] is a phrase used by the Arabs, in which ل is meant to be understood [before النّاس: i. e. الناس is for لِلنَّاسِ; and نَقْدُ for نَقْدٌ, as an epithet of مائة; you may also say نَقْدَ النَاس, making نقد a denotative of state; but] the epithetic mode of construction is that which prevails in this case. (Sb, L.) b5:  نَقْدٌ. b6:  The saying of the poet, لَتُنْتَجَنَّ وَلَدًا أَوْ نَقْدَا means She will certainly bring forth a she-camel, which shall be a permanent acquisition for breeding, or a male, which shall be sold: for they seldom kept the male camels. (Th, L.) نُقْدٌ (Lh, L, K,) and ↓ نُقُدٌ (K) and ↓ نُقَدٌ. (Lh, Az, L,) the form most frequently heard by Az from the Arabs, (L,) or ↓ نَقَدٌ, (K,) [coll. gen. n.] A certain kind of tree, (Lh, L, K,) accord. to AA, of the description termed خُوصَة, having a blossom resembling the بَهْرَمَان, i. e. the عُصْفُر [or bastard-saffron]; (AHn, L;) its  blossom is yellow, and it grows in plain, or soft, grounds: (Az, L:) n. un. with ة; (K;) نُقْدَةٌ (Lh, S, L) and نُقُدَةٌ (TA) and نُقَدَةٌ (Lh, L) and نَقَدَةٌ. (TA.) b2:  Also ↓ نُقْدَةٌ, (L,) or ↓ نِقْدَةٌ, (IAar, L, K,) The كَرَوْيَآء [or caraway]. (IAar, L, K.) b3:  See نَقِدٌ.نِقْدٌ: see نَقِدٌ.نَقَدٌ [a coll. gen. n.] A kind of sheep, of ugly form; (K;) a kind of sheep of El-Bahreyn, having short legs and ugly faces: (S, L:) or a kind of small sheep of El-Hijáz: (L:) or, simply, lambs: (A, L:) [see an ex. in a prov. cited  voce شَامَ in art. شيم:] n. un. with ة: (S, L:) applied alike to the male and female: (L:) pl. نِقَادٌ, and [quasi-pl. n.] نِقَادَةٌ. (L, K.) As says, that the best of wool is that of نَقَد. And one says, أَذَلُّ مِنَ النَّقَدِ [More abject, or vile, than the sheep called نقد]. (S, L.) b2:  Also, (assumed tropical:)  The lower sort of people. (L.) b3:  See نُقْدٌ and نَقِدٌ.نَقِدٌ, (L,) or ↓ نِقْدٌ, (K,) Slow in growing up into manhood, and having little flesh: (L, K:) [and so ↓ نُقْدٌ, accord. to the CK: but ويُضمّ is there put by mistake for وبِضَمٍّ: and the former, (S, L,) or ↓ نَقَدٌ, (K,) a boy despised and little in the eyes of others, that scarcely grows up into manhood; (S, L, K;) sometimes thus applied. (S, L.) b2:  نَقِدٌ A horn eaten, or eroded, at the root. (L.) See also نَقِدَ.نُقُدٌ and نُقَدٌ and نُقْدَةٌ and نِقْدَهٌ: see نُقْدٌ.نُقَادَةٌ The choice part of a thing. (JK.) b2: هُوَ مِنْ نُقَادَةِ قُوْمِهِ (tropical:)  He is of the best of his people. (A.) نَقَّادٌ A shepherd who tends the kind of sheep called نَقَد: (L, K:) or a possessor of skins of that kind of sheep. (Th, L.) b2:  See نَاقِدٌ.نَاقِدٌ [One who picks, or separates, money, and puts forth the bad; who picks, or separates, good money from bad:] who examines money, to pick, or separate the good from the bad: [as also ↓ نَقَّادٌ:] pl. نُقَّادٌ (Msb) [and نَقَدَةٌ]. b2:  [نَاقِدُ شِعْرٍ, and ↓ نَقَّادُهُ (tropical:)  One who picks out the faults of poetry; and, the ↓ latter, one who is accustomed to do so.]b3:  هُوَ مِنْ نَقَدَةِ الشِّعْرِ and مِنْ نُقَّادِهِ, (tropical:)  [He is one of those who pick out the faults of poetry]. (A.) أَنْقَدُ The hedge-hog; القُنْفُذُ; (S, L, K;) a proper name, like أَسَامَةُ applied to the lion: (S:) as also الأَنْقَدُ; (K;) but some disallow the prefixing of the art.; (TA;) and الأَنْقَذُ. (L.) Hence the saying, بَاتَ بِلَيْلِ أَنْقَدَ, (S, L,) or بِلَيْلَةِ أَنْقَدَ, (A, L,) He passed the night of the hedge-hog; i. e. sleepless: (L:) because the hedge-hog remains sleepless (and sees, L) all  night: (S, L, K:) and أَسْرَى مِنْ أَنْقَدَ [A greater journeyer by night than the hedge-hog]. (A, L.) b2:  أَنْقَدُ لَيْلٍ A calumniator; a slanderer; as also قُنْفُذُ لَيْلٍ. (L, art. قنفذ.) b3:  Also, الأَنْقَدُ [L, K,) and ↓ الإِنْقِدَانُ (K) The tortoise: (L, K:) or the latter, the male tortoise: (Lth:) as also with ذ. (TA.) الإِنْقِدَانُ: see preceding sentence.