وفد1 وَفَدَ عَلَيْهِ, (S, M, A, K,) [in the Msb, وَفِدَ, but this appears to be a mistake,] and إِلَيْهِ, (M, K,) aor. ـِ (M, K,) inf. n. وُفُودٌ (M, A, K) and وَفْدٌ (M, K) and وِفَادَةٌ, (M, A, K,) or this last is a simple subst., (S,) and إِفَادَةٌ, (M, K,) in which the و is changed into إ, (M,) He came to him, (S, M, A, K,) namely, to a king, (A,) or governor, (S, A,) or great man, ('Ináyeh,) as an ambassador, envoy, or messenger; (S, A;) or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: ('Ináyeh:) or he went forth to him, namely, to a king, or governor. (As, L.) 2 وَفَّدَ see 4.4 اوفدهُ عَلَيْهِ, (M, A, K,) and إِلَيْهِ, (S, M, K,) inf. n. إِيفَادٌ; (K;) and إِلَيْهِ ↓ وفّدهُ, (L,) inf. n. تَوْفِيدٌ; (K;) He sent him to him, (S, M, A, K,) namely, to a king, (A,) or governor, (S,) [or great man, as an ambassador, envoy, or messenger; or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: see 1]. b2:  الأَمِيرُ إِلَى الأَمِيرِ الَّذِى ↓ وفّدهُ فَوْتَهُ [The governor, sent him as an envoy to the governor who was above him]. (L.) b3:  مَا أَوْفَدَكَ عَلَيْنَا (assumed tropical:)  [What hath caused thee to come to us?]. (TA.) b4:  بَيْنَمَا أَنَا فِىضِيقٍ إِذْ أَوْفَدَ اللّٰهُ عَلَىَّ بِرَجُلٍ فَأَخْرَجَنِى مَنْهُ (tropical:)  While I was in difficulty, lo, God brought to me a man, and extricated me from it. (A.) A2:  اوفد عَلَى الشَّىْءِ, inf. n. إِيفَادٌ, (tropical:)  It rose up, or stood up, so as to be higher than the thing; overtopped it; overpeered it; overhung it; overlooked it. (S, L, K *.) A poet (Homeyd Ibn-Thór El-Hilálee, TA) says, تَرَى العِلَافِىَّ عَلَيْهَا مُوفِدَا كَأَنَّ بَرْجًا فَوْقَهَا مُشَيَّدَا [Thou seest the 'Iláfee saddle overtopping her, as though a high-raised tower were upon her.] (S, L.) And one says of a horse, مَا أَحْسَنَ مَاأَوْفَدَ حَاركُهُ How beautiful is the prominence of his withers! (S, L.) ↓ توفّد is also syn. with  اوفد in the above sense. (K, TA.) b2: اوفد inf. n. إِيفَادٌ, (tropical:)  It (a white antelope) raised its head and erected its ears. (L, K.) b3:  اوفد, inf. n. إِيفَادٌ, He hastened, or went, quickly: (S, L, K:) occurring in the poetry of Ibn-Ahmar. (S, L.) b4:  اوفد, inf. n. إِيفَادٌ, (tropical:)  It rose, or became elevated. (A, L, K.) b5:  اوفد, (tropical:)  He raised, or elevated, a thing. (L.) 5 توفّدت الإِبِلُ, and الطَّيْرُ, (assumed tropical:)  The camels, and the birds, strove to outgo, or outstrip, one another. (L.) b2:  توفّدت الأَوْعَالُ فَوْقَ الجَبَلِ (tropical:)  The mountain-goats ascended upon the mountain. (A.) b3:  See 4.6 توافدنا عَلَيْهِ [We came together as ambassadors, or envoys, &c., to him: see 1]. (A.) 10 إِسْتَوْفَدَنِى (assumed tropical:)  [app. He asked, or desired, me to come]. (TA.) A2:  استوفد (tropical:)  He elevated himself, and made himself erect, in his manner of sitting; (A;) a dial. form of استوفز [q. v.] (S.) وَفْدٌ: see وَافِدٌ. b2:  الحَاجُّ وَفْدُ اللّٰهِ (tropical:)  [The pilgrims of Mekkeh are the ambassadors of God]. (A.) b3:  وَفْدُ اللّٰهِ ثَلَاَثَةٌ الغَازِى وَاحَاجُّ وَالمُعْتَمِرُ (tropical:)  [The ambassadors of God are three; the warrior, and the pilgrim of Mekkeh, and the performer of the ceremonies of the عُمْرَة]. A tradition. (L *, El-Jámi' es-Sagheer.) A2:  وَفْدٌ The upper part of an elevated long tract (حَبْل: in some copies of the K, جَبَل:) of sand. (S, L, K.) وَفَادَةٌ, subst. from وَفَدَ عَلَيْهِ, (S,) A coming to a king, (A,) or governor, (S, A,) [or the like,] as an ambassador, envoy, or messenger, [&c.: see 1]. (S, A.) b2:  لَهُ وِفَادَةٌ [a phrase of frequent occurrence in notices of companions of Mohammad, meaning, He had the honour of coming as an envoy to the Prophet]. (TA, passim; and other works.) وَافِدٌ A man coming to a king, (A,) or governor, (S, A,) [or great man,] as an ambassador, or envoy, or messenger; (S, A;) [or to convey gifts, and to ask aid, or assistance: See 1:] pl., (S, L,) or [rather] this first is a quasi-pl. n., (L,) ↓ وَفْدٌ (S, A, L, K) and وُفَّدٌ (K) and وُفَّادٌ; (A, Msb;) and pl. of وَفْدٌ, أَوْقَادٌ and وُفُودٌ: (S, L, Msb, K:) وَفْدٌ is also explained as signifying a party that assembles together and comes to a country or town: and a party that repairs to princes, or governors, to visit, and to ask aid, or assistance, or some benefit, &c.: (L:) and a party that comes to a king respecting an affair of conquest, or for congratulation, or the like: (Mgh:) and a company chosen to go forth for the purpose of having an interview with great men: (En-Nawawee:) and a company of riders: (Jel, xix. 88:) and a company riding and honoured: (Zj, in explanation of the same verse of the Kur-an:) but from the explanations in the K, and other lexicons, it seems to signify a party coming, whether walking or riding, chosen for the purpose of having an interview with great men, or not: the explanations of En-Nawawee and some others may be in accordance with general or conventional acceptations, and those of the rest may be proper, or literal. (TA.) b2:  وَافِدٌ (tropical:)  A camel, (S, A, K,) or bird, (A,) or bird of the kind called القَطَا, (K,) that precedes the others (S, A, K) in pace, and in coming to water. (A.) b3:  الوَافِدَانِ (in the poetry of ElAasha, S, L) (tropical:)  The parts of the two cheeks which project when one chews, and which become depressed when one grows old. (S, A, L, K.) One says of a very old man, غَابَ وَافِدَاهُ (tropical:)  [The middles of his cheeks have become depressed]. (A.) هُمْ عَلَى أَوْفَادٍ They are upon a journey: (L, K:) as also أَوْفَازٍ. (TA.) مُوفِدٌ (tropical:)  Prominent, or elevated: (A, L:) applied  to a camel's hump, (A,) and to the pubes. (L.) مُسْتَوْفِدٌ (tropical:)  Erecting himself, and not placing himself at his case, in his manner of sitting; (L;) i. q. مُسْتَوْفِزٌ. (L, K.)