عَنْجَفٌ

, like جَنْدَلٌ, (K in the present article,) or عُنْجُفٌ, (AA, O and K in article عنجف,) like قُنْفُذٌ, (K in the latter article,) and ↓ عُنْجُوفٌ, Dry, or tough, by reason of leanness, meagreness, or emaciation, (AA, K in this article, and O and K in article عنجف,) or of disease: thus explained by AA, and mentioned by IDrd and Az among quadriliteral-radical words. (TA.) And Short, and compact, or contracted [in make or body]: and sometimes applied as an epithet to an old woman: (K:) thus the latter word is explained by IDrd. (TA.)