حوف1 حَافَهُ, [aor. ـُ inf. n. حَوْفٌ, He, or it, was in, or on, the حَافَة [or side] of it; i. e, of a thing. (TA.) b2:  He visited him. (TA.) b3: See also 2.2 حوّفهُ, (K,) inf. n. تَحْوِيفٌ, (TA,) He put him, or it, on the حَافَة, (K, TA,) i. e., the side. (TA.) b2:  It (the [rain called] وَسْمِىّ) surrounded  it; namely, a place; (K;) as though it took its حَافَاتِ [or sides]. (TA.) b3:  سُلِّطَ عَلَيْهِمْ طَاعُونٌ يُحَوِّفُ القُلُوبَ, occurring in a trad., means [A pestilence was made to overcome them] turning the hearts [of those witnessing its effects] from  confidence, and inclining them to removal and flight therefrom; (K, * TA;) from حَافَةٌ signifying the “ side ” of a place: (TA:) but some relate it otherwise, saying ↓ يَحُوفُ, like يَقُولُ: (K:) and some say يُحَرِّفُ; and thus A' Obeyd  affirms it to be. (TA. [See 2 in art. حرف.]) 5 تحوّفهُ He took its حَافَة [or side]: and he took from its حافة: as also تخوّفه: (TA:) or he took by little and little from it, namely, a thing, (S, K,) or from its حافات [or sides]; (S in art. حيف;) as also [تخوّفهُ and] تحيّفهُ. (S and K * in that art.) Abd-Allah Ibn-' Ajlán En-Nahdee says, (TA,) or some other poet, (L in art. خوف,) تَحَوَّفَ الرَّحْلُ مِنْهَا تَامِكًا قَرِدًا كَمَا تَحَوَّفَ عُودَ النَّبْعَةِ السَّفَنُ[Her saddle abraded from a long and high, compact hump; like as the piece of skin used for smoothing arrows has abraded from the rod of the tree called نبعة]. (TA.) [See also 5 in art. خوف, where another reading of this verse is given.]حَافٌ: see حَافَةٌ.A2:  A certain vein, of a green colour, or of a dark, or an ashy, dust-colour, (أَخْضَرُ,) beneath the tongue: (O, Msb:) there are  two veins of this description, called the حَافَانِ: (K:) accord. to some, the ف is with teshdeed. (TA.) حَوْفٌ: see حَافَةٌ, first and last significations.A2:  Also A skin that is slit [in several places, into a number of thongs or strips,] of a form like that of the إِزَار [or waist-wrapper], worn [round the hips] by one who is in menstruis, and by boys; (S, K;) i. e. a رَهْط: (S:) pl. أَحْوَافٌ: (TA:) accord. to IAar, a skin that is slit into thongs or strips: or, as he says on one occasion, a وَثْر, i. e., (TA,) a نُقْبَة of skin or leather, slit into strips of the width of four fingers each, (IAar, K, TA,) or a span, (IAar, TA,) worn by a young girl before she has attained to puberty, (IAar, K, TA,) and worn by her in menstruis; of the dial. of El-Hijáz; in the dial. of Nejd called رَهْط: (IAar, TA:) or red skin or leather, cut in the form of thongs or strips, upon which are put [ornaments of the kind termed] شَذْر; worn by a girl over her garments: (K:) [see also خَوْفٌ:] accord. to IAth, i. q. بَقِيرَةٌ; i. e. a garment without sleeves. (TA.) A3:  A thing, (K,) i. e. a kind of vehicle in which a woman rides upon a camel, (TA,) resembling, but not the same as, the هَوْدَج: (K:) of the dial. of the people of El-Howf [in 'Omán], and of the people of Esh-Shihr. (TA.) حَافَةٌ A side of anything; originally حَوَفَةٌ; (Msb;) and so ↓ حَوْفٌ: (TA:) حَافَتَانِ signifying the two sides of a valley (S, Msb, K) &c.; (K;) i. e., of any other thing: (TA:) pl. حَافَاتٌ (Msb, K) and حِيْفٌ, which is irregular, and حِيَفٌ, which is regular, and حَوَائِفُ; which is extr., like حَوَائِجُ, and changed by transposition to حَوَافٍ, (TA in art. حيف,) and [coll. gen. n.] ↓ حَافٌ. (Ham p. 159.) It is said in a trad., عَلَيْكُنَّ بِحَافَاتِ الطَّرِيقِ [Keep ye (O women) to the sides of the road]. (TA.) b2:  Also, of the دَوَائِس [or bulls or cows that tread wheat or other grain] (K, TA) in the كُدْس [or wheat &c. collected  together in the place where it is trodden out], (TA,) Such as is, or are, at the extremity, exceeding the others in going round. (K, TA.) A2: Want: (K:) and hardness, or difficulty, of life; (K, TA;) as also ↓ حَوْفٌ. (TA.) مُحَوَّفٌ Bordered with herbage. (TA in art. عهد.)