زعف1 زَعَفَهُ, (S, K,) aor. ـَ (K,) inf. n. زَعْفٌ, (S,) He, or it, killed him on the spot; (S, K;) as also ↓ ازعفهُ, and ↓ ازدعفهُ; (K;) the last mentioned by As, as syn. with أَقْعَصَهُ: (TA:) or cast, or shot, at him, or smote him, so that he died on the spot, quickly: (L, TA:) and killed him quickly. (S.) b2:  See also 4.A2:  زَعَفَ فِى حَدِيثِهِ He added, or exaggerated, or he lied, in his discourse, or narration. (Mj, L.) 4 أَرْعَفَ see above. b2:  ازعف عَلَيْهِ He despatched him; or hastened and completed his slaughter; (El-Khárzenjee, K;) as also ↓ زَعَفَهُ, aor.  and inf. n. as above. (TA.) 8 ازدعفهُ [originally اِزْتَعَفَهُ]: see 1.زُعَافٌ, applied to poison, like زُؤَافٌ (S, K) and ذُعَافٌ [meaning Quick in its effect]; and in like manner applied to death: (S:) and ↓ مُزْعِفٌ, applied to death, and to a sword, that will not suffer one to linger; killing on the spot; (K;) as applied to a sword, thus expl. by As; as applied to death, expl. by Skr as meaning quick. (TA.) زُعُوفٌ [a pl. of which the sing. is not mentioned,] Places of destruction. (IAar, K.) حِسْىٌ مُزْعَفٌ [Water which the earth imbibes from sand above it, and which, when it reaches what is hard, is arrested thereby,] such as is not sweet. (Ibn-' Abbád, K.) مُزُعِفٌ: see زُعَافٌ. b2:  المُزْعِفُ is also the name of a certain sword, (K, TA,) belonging to 'AbdAllah Ibn-Sebreh, one of the braves of El-Islám; thus accord. to Az: (TA:) or this is with ر; (Sgh, K;) and is thus found in the handwriting of Mohammad Ibn-El-' Abbás El-Yezeedee, with a dot beneath the ر, to show that it is not ز. (Sgh, TA.) المِزْعَافَةُ The serpent; (K;) as also المِزْعَامَةُ. (TA.) [Accord. to Freytag, مِزْعَافَةُ الرِّيقِ occurs  in the Deewán el-Hudhaleeyeen as meaning The serpent: or the lion.] [See also art. ذعف, passim.]