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4 اغدفت قِنَاعَهَا ذ She (a woman, S) let down, or let fall, her [head-covering called] قناع upon her face. (S, K.) 'Antarah says, “ إِِنْ تُغْدِفِى دُونِى القِنَاعَ فَإِِنَّنِى
طَبٌّ بِأَخْذِ الفَارِسِ المُسْتَلْئِمِ
” (S,) i. e. If, O my beloved, thou let down before me the head-covering, meaning if thou veil thyself from me, I am expert in capturing the mail-clad horseman: then how should I lack power to capture thee? (EM p. 236.) ― -b2- [Hence,] اغدف اللَّيْلُ (tropical:) The night let down its curtains [of darkness]. (S, K.) ― -b3- And الشَّبَكَةَ عَلَى الصَّيْدِ He (a sportsman, or fowler, or the like,) let fall the net upon the object, or objects, to be captured. (S, K.) Hence, (TA,) it is said in a trad., إِِنَّ قَلْبَ المُؤْمِنِ أَشَدُّ ا@رْتِكَاضًا مِنَ الذَّنْبِ يُصِيبُهُ مِنَ العُصْفُورِ حِينَ يُغْدَفُ بِهِ (S, TA,) i. e. [Verily the heart of the believer is more vehemently agitated in consequence of the offence that he purposes than the sparrow] when the net is made to cover it, whereupon it struggles to escape: (TA:) or مِنَ الخَطِيْئَةِ [i. e. in consequence of the sin that he is tempted to commit]. (So in the O, instead of مِن الذنب يصيبه.) ― -b4- اغدف بِهَا (assumed tropical:) He compressed her, (Ibn- 'Abbád, O, K,) i. e., a woman: (Ibn-'Abbád, O:) or, as in the A, he went in to her. (TA.) ― -b5- اغدف said of the sea [app. from the same verb said of the night] (tropical:) It became confusedly agitated in its waves; expl. by the words اِعْتَكَرَتْ أَمْوَاجُهُ. (TA.) ― -b6- And (assumed tropical:) He slept. (AA, TA in art. سدف.) ― -b7- And, accord. to Lh, (O,) اغدف said of the circumciser (O, K, TA) of a boy (O) means He cut off entirely the prepuce; (O, K, TA;) like أَسْحَتَ; (O, TA;) but ISd holds that the latter has this meaning, and the former means he left somewhat thereof: (TA:) one says to the circumciser, لَا تُغْدِفْ وَلَا تُسْحِتْ, (O, TA,) but this means Leave not thou much of the skin, nor cut off entirely. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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