A portion of water remaining in the sides of a watering-trough or tank; as also ↓جَحْفَةٌ. (Kr, K.)
2.
The water that is exhausted from a well: or, that remains in the well after the exhausting [of the rest]. (K.)
3.
A small quantity of the food calledثَرِيد, in a vessel, not filling it. (K.)
4.
The quantity that is laded out at once, of food: or a handful: (IAar, K:) plural جُحَفٌ. (TA.)
5.
A portion of scattered herbage in theقَوْز (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.)