احتنك الجَرَادُ الأَرْضَ

(tropical:) The locusts ate what was upon the land; (S, K, TA;) and consumed, or made an end of, its herbage: (S:) or gained the mastery over the land with the حَنَك [here meaning the mouth], and ate [the produce of] it, and extirpated it: (Er-Rághib, TA:) derived from الحَنَكُ, by which is sometimes meant “ the mouth, ” and “ the beak. ” ('Ináyeh, MF.) And احتنك البَعِيرُ الصِّلِّيَانَةَ (assumed tropical:) The camel pulled up by the roots the [plant called] صلّيانة. (Az, TA.) And احتنك [for احتنك النَّبْتُ (assumed tropical:) He cropped the herbage] is said of a young gazelle. (K voce شَصَرٌ, q. v.) And احتنكهُ (assumed tropical:) He took his (a man's) property; (ISd, K;) as though he ate it with the حَنَك. (ISd, TA.) And (assumed tropical:) He took it entirely; took the whole of it; namely, what another possessed. (ISd, TA.) And (tropical:) He gained the mastery over him, or it; got him, or it, in his power. (K, TA.) Accord. to Akh, لَأَحْتِنَكَنَّ ذُرِّيَّتَهُ, in the Qur'an, 17:64, cited, and explained on the authority of Ibn-' Arafeh, above], means (tropical:) I will assuredly extirpate his progeny; and I will assuredly incline them [to obey me]: (TA:) or, according to Fr, (tropical:) I will assuredly gain the mastery over his progeny. (S, TA. *)

See also 1, in three places.

-A2- Also احتنك [and ↓ تحنّك, the latter found by Reiske in this sense, as mentioned in Freytag's Lex.,] (tropical:) He (a man) was, or became, firm, or sound, in judgment, [by means of experience:] (S, TA:) or experienced and submissive, like the horse in whose mouth the rope has been put. (TA.)