احتفى

And احتفى بِهِ: see 1.

احتفى also signifies He pulled up herbs, or leguminous plants, from the ground (T, Mgh, K) with the ends of his fingers, because of their shortness and paucity; (T, Mgh;) as also اِحْتَفَأَ, (T, Mgh, K,) according to one reading of a tradition in which it occurs; and اجتفأ, according to another reading of the same; but both these are disallowed by Aboo-Sa'eed. (T, Mgh.)

He uprooted, or extirpated, anything. (Aboo-Sa'eed, T.)

احتفى القَوْمُ المَرْعَى The people, or party, fed their animals upon the pasturage and left not aught of its herbage: the subst. [denoting the act of doing this] is حفوة [apparently حَفْوَةٌ]. (TA.)