جحف

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.)