انف

2 اَنَّفَ see 4. -A2- تَأْنِيفٌ also signifies (assumed tropical:) The sharpening, or making pointed, the extremity of a thing. (S.) You say of a spear-head, or an arrow-head, or a blade, أُنِّفّ, inf. n. تَأْنِيفٌ, (K,) (assumed tropical:) It was sharpened or pointed [ at its extremity ]. (TA.) ― -b2- [Used as a subst.,] (assumed tropical:) Sharpness of the extremity of the hock; which, in a horse, is approved. (TA.) ― -b3- أُنِّفَ تَأْنِيفَ السَّيْرِ, said by an Arab of the desert in describing a horse, means (assumed tropical:) He was made even, like as is made even the cut thong or strap. (M.) -A3- (assumed tropical:) The seeking after herbage, or pasture, (K, TA,) such as is termed أُنُف. (TA.) ― -b2- أنّف مَالَهُ, (T,) or الاـِبِلَ, (K,) inf. n. as above; and ↓ اآنَفَهَا, (T, S, K,) inf. n. اـِينَافٌ; (T;) (assumed tropical:) He pastured his beasts upon the first of the herbage: (T:) or he pursued, with the camels, repeatedly, or gradually, or step by step, (S, K, TA,) after the first of the herbage, (S,) or after the herbage which had not been pastured upon: (K, * TA:) or he went with them thereto. (L.)