لَجَذَ

, (L, K,) aorist لَجُذَ , (K,) verbal noun لَجْذٌ; (L, K;) and لَجِذَ, aorist لَجَذَ ; (K;) He ate (L, K) food. (L.)

He (a beast) began to pasture. (L, K.)

He (a beast) ate herbage: (L:) you say, when beasts have eaten herbage, لُجِذَ الكَلَأُ: (S, L:) or ate it with the extremity of his tongue, (L, K,) it being such as did not allow him to take it with his teeth: (L:) according to As, لَجَذَهُ signifies i. q. لَسَّهُ [he plucked it with the fore part of his mouth.] (S, L.)

He licked: in this sense, the verbal noun is لَجْذٌ and لَجَذٌ: (K:) you say, لَجِذَ الكَلْبُ الإِنَاءَ, verbal noun لَجْذٌ and لَجَذٌ, the dog licked the vessel (AHát, S, K) inside: (L:) [J says,] I have transcribed it from the Kitáb el-Abwáb, without having heard it: (S:) and لَجِذَ الكَلْبُ the dog put his tongue into a vessel and lapped; as also لَجِدَ and لَجِنَ. (AA, L.)

He took little. (L, K.)

He asked often after having been given once: (K:) لَجَذَنِى, aorist لَجُذَ , verbal noun لَجْذٌ, signifies he asked me, and did so much, after I had given him: (S:) or he asked me after he had asked me and I had given him: (AZ, L:) or he asked me, and did so much, after he had asked me and I had given him. (As, L.)

He instigated; incited; excited. (K.)