جَآءَ يَظُوفُهُ He came driving him away; as also يَظْأَفُهُ. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O, Ḳ.)

أَخَذَهُ بِظُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ andبِظَافِهَا↓ (Ṣ, O, Ḳ) i. e. [He took him, or laid hold upon him,] by the skin of his neck: (O, Ḳ:) or أَخَذَ بِظُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ andبِظَافِهَا↓ i. e. [he laid hold upon] the whole of his neck: or the pendent hair in the hollow of the back of his neck: (M:) i. q. بِصُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ [&c.]. (Ṣ. [See more voce صُوفٌ: and see ظَلِيفٌ, last sentence.]) And تَرَكْتُهُ بِظُوفِ رَقَبَتِهِ (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O, Ḳ) andبِظَافِهَا↓, (Ḳ,) and بِظُوفِ قَفَاهُ, (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O,) I left him alone. (Ibn-ʼAbbád, O, Ḳ.) [And نَجَا بِظُوفِ نَفْسِهِ He hardly escaped. (Freytag from the Deewán of the Hudhalees.)]