حذف

2 حذّفهُ ذ , [inf. n. تَحْذِيفٌ,] He clipped it much: he took, or cut off, from its lateral parts, whatever it was, so as to make it even: (Msb:) he (a workman, or an artificer,) made it (a thing) becomingly even; as though he cut off from it whatever required to be cut off, so that it became free from everything unseemly, and was nicely, neatly, or properly, trimmed. (A, TA.) تَحْذِيفُ الشَّعَرِ [or الرَّأْسِ] signifies The cutting of the hair so as to form a طُرَّة [q. v.], by taking from its sides so as to make it even [ with the cut portion over the forehead ]; (T, Mgh;) as is done by, or to, a girl: (Mgh:) or تحذيف الرأس is a custom of women, consisting in the removing of the hair from [ the sides of ] the head as far as a line upon the side of the face made by putting one end of a string, or thread, upon the top of the ear, and the other end upon the angle of the جَبِين [or part above the temple ]: (Msb:) accord. to En-Nadr, the تحذيف of the طُرَّة is the making a [طرّة such as is termed ] سُكَيْنِيَّة, [i. e., after the fashion of Sukeyneh the daughter of El-Hoseyn, as is shown in the S and K &c. in art. سكن,] like as do the Christians. (L, TA.) ― -b2- Also, inf. n. as above, (tropical:) He prepared it; or put it into a right, or good, state; and made it; or made it skilfully, or well. (S, K, TA.)