حوذ1 حَاذَ الإِبِلَ, aor. ـُ (S, A, L,) inf. n. حَوْذٌ, (S, L, K,) He drove the camels quickly; (S, L, K;) as also ↓ أَحْوَذَهَا, (S, L,) inf. n. إِحْوَاذٌ: (K:) or violently; (M, L;) like حَازَهَا, inf. n. حَوْزٌ: (L:) or roughly: (B:) or he drove the camels to water; like حازها. (A. TA.) b2:  Also He collected the camels together to drive them. (L.) b3:  And حُذْتُ الإِبِلَ and حِذْتُهَا, I mastered, or gained the mastery over, the camels: two forms of the verb mentioned by Zj and IKtt and others, as coordinate to قَالَ and خَافَ. (MF, TA.) and حاذ الحِمَارُ أُتُنَهُ The he-ass gained the mastery over his she-asses, and collected them together; like حازها: (L:) [and so جَانِبَيْهَا ↓ أَحْوَذَ:] Lebeed says, (??) (??) [When they became collected together, and he gained the mastery over their flanks, or] drew  them together so that not one of them escaped him, [and brought them to the watering-place, gal-(??) crooked legs; for] by عوج he (??) (S, L.) b4:  And [hence,] (??) n. as above; (L;) and ↓ اِسْتَحْوَذَ عَلَيْهِ, (S, A, L, K, *) and استحاذ; (S, L;) He overcame, mastered, or gained the mastery over, him, or it: (S, A, L, K:) [like حازهُ.] You say, عَلَى كَذَا ↓ استحوذ He mastered such a thing; gained the mastery over it; gained possession of it. (L.) عَلَيْهِمُ الشَّيْطَانُ ↓ استحوذ [in the Kur [viii. 20] means The devil hath overcome them, or gained the mastery over them: (S, L:) or hath gained the mastery over their hearts: (Th, L:) or hath gained the mastery over them, and inclined them to that which he desired of them: (Msb:) or drove them, having gained the mastery over them. (B.) And عَلَيْكُمْ ↓ أَلَمْ نَسْتَحْوِذْ [in the Kur iv. 140], Did we not acquire the mastery over your affairs, and gain possession of your affection? (S, L:) or did we not gain the mastery over you by befriending and aiding you? (Aboo-Ishák, L:) or did we not overcome you, and have it in our power to slay you? (Bd.) Az says that in all verbs coordinate to استحوذ, the original letters of the root may be preserved: that the Arabs say اِسْتَصَابَ and اِسْتَصْوَبَ, and اِسْتَجَابَ and اِسْتَجْوَبَ: and that their doing so is agreeable with a rule constantly obtaining with them. (S.) The grammarians say that he who says حَاذَ, aor. ـُ says only استحاذ; and he who says أَحْوَذَ, says in like manner استحوذ. (L.) b5:  Also حاذ, aor. ـُ (L,) inf. n. حَوْذٌ, (L, K,) He guarded, kept, kept safely, protected, took care of, or minded, [a person, or thing;] syn. حَاطَ, (L,) inf. n. حَوْطٌ. (L, K.) And حاذ عَلَيْهِ, (L,) inf. n. حَوْذٌ; (K;) and ↓ أَحْوَذَ, inf. n. إِحْوَاذٌ; (TA:) (??) thighs: pl. آحَاذٌ. (Ham p. 443.) They say, أَنْقَعُ اللَّبَنِ مَاوَلِىَ حَاذَىِ النَّاقَةِ [The most thirstquenching of milk is that which is next to the hinder parts of the two thighs of the she-camel]: i. e., when it is fresh-drawn, without her having been previously sucked by a young one. (TA. [But the first word, there, is انفع, which I regard as a mistranscription.]) حَاذَةٌ: see الحَاذُ, in two places.حَوِيذٌ: see أَحْوَذِىٌّ.طَرَدٌ أَحْوَذُ A quick hunting. (L.) أَحْوَذِىٌّ Quick in journeying, or in pace; one  who goes a journey of ten nights in three. (L.) And hence, (tropical:)  Quick in everything that he undertakes: quick, sharp, and active in affairs: (L:) active and skilful: (K:) active in a thing by reason of his skilfulness: (AA, S, L:) applied  [as meaning active by reason of expertness] to the wing of a bird of the kind called قَطًا, by a poet. (S, L,) namely, Homeyd Ibn-Thowr: (S:) quick  in his affairs, who prosecutes them, or carries them on, well: (L:) one who prosecutes, or carries on, affairs in the best manner, by reason of his knowledge thereof: (A:) one who manages things skilfully, well, or thoroughly: (Msb:) ready, or prompt, in affairs, who masters them, and to whom nothing is out of his way, or sphere, or compass; (As, S, L, K;) as also ↓ حَوِيذٌ: (L, * K:) one who overcomes, or masters. (L.) and أَحْوَزِىٌّ signifies the same. (S and K &c. in art. حوز.) b2:  It is applied by a poet to thick water (مَآءٌ مِنَ الطَّثْرَةِ) as meaning (assumed tropical:)  Quick in moving the bowels. (S, L.)