علد doesn't appear in Hans Wehr's Modern Standard Arabic dictionary, but Lane's Arabic-English Lexicon has 2 entries for it, distinguished by diacritics. Select one below for the full classical Arabic definition.

• عَلِدَ Form 1

  1 عَلِدَ ذ , aor. عَلَدَ , (O, L, K,) inf. n. عَلْدٌ (O, L, K *) and عَلَدٌ, (O,) said of a man, (O,) or of anything, (L,) He, or it, was, or became, strong and hard. (O, L, K. [See also Q. Q. 3.]) -b2- And He stood fast…

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• عَلْدٌ

  عَلْدٌ ذ Hardness and strength. (K. [See 1.]) -A2- And A thing, (S,) or anything, (TA,) hard, (S, K,) and strong: (K:) or, accord. to Kh, anything thick, big, or coarse, and strong. (Ham p. 81.) -b2- And Standing fast, a…

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