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جُحْفَةٌ جحف جحفه جحفة A portion of water remaining in the sides of a watering-trough or tank; as also ↓ جَحْفَةٌ . (Kr, K.) ― -b2- The water that is exhausted from a well: or, that remains in the well after the exhausting [of the rest]. (K.) ― -b3- A small quantity of the food called ثَرِيد, in a vessel, not filling it. (K.) ― -b4- The quantity that is laded out at once, of food: or a handful: (IAar, K:) pl. جُحَفٌ. (TA.) ― -b5- A portion of scattered herbage in the قَوْز (a mistake for قَرْن, meaning the most elevated part, TA) of a desert, (K, TA,) resembling waters on all its sides, such as that the seeker of water knows not which of the waters is the nearest to the extremity thereof. (TA.)
An Arabic-English Lexicon. London. Williams and Norgate. 1863.
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