devour, eat away at

, (S, Mgh, Msb, K,) or لَحِسَهُ بِلِسَانِهِ, (A,) aor. , (S, Msb, K,) inf. n. لَحْسٌ (S, A, Msb, K) and مَلْحَسٌ (A K) and لَحْسَةٌ and لُحْسَةٌ, (Yaakoob, S, K,) the last mentioned by ISk, (TA,) He licked it; (S, A, K, TA;) namely, a bowl, (S, K,) and a vessel: (S:) اللَّحْسُ is with the tongue: (S, K:) or لَحسَهُ signifies he took what was upon it, (Mgh,) or what adhered to its sides, (Msb,) with his tongue or his finger; (Mgh, Msb;) the suffixed pronoun referring to a bowl (Mgh, Msb) or some other thing: (Mgh:) and he took it (a thing) with his tongue. (TA.) It is said in a proverb, أَسْرَعُ مِنْ لَحْسِ الكَلْبِ أَنْفَهُ [Quicker than the dog's licking his nose]. (S, A.) See also مَلْحَسٌ, below. ― -b2- لَحِسَ الدُّودُ الصُّوفَ, (A, Mgh, Msb,) in measure like لَبِسَ, (Mgh,) or لَحَسَ, like مَنَعَ, (K,) inf. n. لَحْسٌ, (Mgh, Msb, K,) The worms ate the wool: (Mgh, Msb, K:) and in like manner, لحس الجَرَادُ الخُضَرَ (A, K) and الشَّجَرَ, (TA,) the locusts ate the green plants (K) and the trees. (TA.)

(tropical:) The land produced plants, or herbage: (S:) or began to produce leguminous plants: (K:) or produced the first of the herbage, so that the beasts saw it and desired it and licked it, not being able to eat of it anything: (TA:) or produced what the beasts of carriage might lick or eat (مَا تَلْحَسُهُ): (A, TA:) or [became in such a state that] the beasts of carriage licked or ate (لَحَسَتْ) its plants, or herbage. (Sgh, K.) -A2- الحس المَاشِيَةَ (tropical:) He pastured the camels or sheep or goats with the least pasturing. (K.)

(tropical:) He took from him his (the former's, A) right, or due. (A, K.)

: see 1. [Accord. to analogy, it is an inf. n. of un.]

[The quantity that one takes by one lick with the tongue. Hence the saying,] مَا لَكَ عِنْدِى لُحْسَةٌ I have not anything for thee, or belonging to thee. (TA.) ― -b2- See also 1.

: see مِلْحَسٌ.

: see مِلْحَسٌ.

A man who licks much what comes to him. (TA.) ― -b2- لَحَّاسَةٌ A moth-worm, that eats wool; syn. عُثَّةٌ. (TA.) ― -b3- A lioness. (K.)

(tropical:) A distressful, or calamitous, year; (K;) a year that consumes all the herbage: (A, TA:) and لَوَاحِسُ, [the pl., سِنُونٌ, being understood,] distressful, or calamitous, years. (A, TA.)

: see مِلْحَسٌ.

is a noun of place; [signifying A place of licking; &c;] as well as an inf. n.: and in both cases it has مَلَاحِسُ for pl. (IJ.) You say, تَرَكْتُهُ بِمَلَا حِسِ البَقَرِ, (S, A, K,) or بِمَلَاحِسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا, (TA,) meaning, (tropical:) I left him in the places where the wild cows lick their young ones (S, ISd, A, K) from the membranes in which they are born: (ISd, TA:) or in a desert place, (S,) or in a desert, or waterless desert, (ISd, A, TA,) so that it was not known where he was; (S;) because the wild cows bring forth only in the deserts: (ISd, TA:) the former is like the saying بِمَبَاحِثِ البَقَرِ; (S;) and is that which ISd holds to be the right: (TA:) in the latter, ملاحس is an inf. n., in the pl. form, which is strange; because it governs اولاد in the accus. case; and a prefixed noun [مَوَاضِع] is understood before it: (IJ:) some relate the saying differently, thus, بِمَلْحَسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا, meaning, بِمَوْضِعِ مَلْحَسِ البَقَرِ أَوْلَادَهَا [in the place of the cows' licking their young ones]; (K;) because [some hold that] an inf. n. of the measure مَفْعَلٌ has no pl. (TA.)

: see مِلْحَسٌ.