Dictionary

"Z the twenty-sixth and last letter of the English alphabet is a vocal consonant. It is taken from the Latin letter Z which came from the Greek alphabet this having it from a Semitic source. The ultimate origin is proba

"An old solfeggio name for B flat; the seventh harmonic as heard in the or aeolian string; -- so called by Tartini. It was long considered a false but is the true note of the chord of the flat seventh."

"Alt. of Zabism"

"See Sabian."

"See Sabianism."

"See Zocco."

"An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca) and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment."

"Same as Z/rthe."

"A pigment obtained usually by roasting cobalt glance with sand or quartz as a dark earthy powder. It consists of crude cobalt oxide or of an impure cobalt arseniate. It is used in porcelain painting and in enameling po

"A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name."

"A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue."

"A horse of a dark color neither gray nor white and having no spots."

"Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge." — "One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec solenodon and golden moles are examples."

"An immense leguminous tree (Pithecolobium Saman) of Venezuela. Its branches form a hemispherical mass often one hundred and eighty feet across. The sweet pulpy pods are used commonly for feeding cattle. Also called rai

"The child of a mulatto and a negro; also the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously a negro; a sambo."

"of Zambo"

"A genus of cycadaceous plants having the appearance of low palms but with exogenous wood. See Coontie and Illust. of Strobile."

"A landowner; also a collector of land revenue; now usually a kind of feudatory recognized as an actual proprietor so long as he pays to the government a certain fixed revenue."

"The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar."

"Alt. of Zamindari"

"A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia."

"A West African buffalo (Bubalus brachyceros) having short horns depressed at the base and large ears fringed internally with three rows of long hairs. It is destitute of a dewlap. Called also short-horned buffalo and b

"A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete."

"A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari sander sannat schill and zant."

"The sand mole."

"of Zany"

"See Zantewood."

"A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante one of the Ionian Islands."

"A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante and zante fustic. See Fustet and the Note under Fustic." — "Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia)."

"A native or inhabitant of Zante one of the Ionian Islands."

"A merry-andrew; a buffoon." — "To mimic."

"State or character of a zany; buffoonery."

"Zaffer."

"An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa and with a deep pit in one side of the cup."

"See Sapodilla."

"A Turkish policeman."

"Alt. of Zarathustric"

"Of or pertaining to Zarathustra or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian."

"See Zoroastrianism."

"A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel."