Dictionary
Found: 354 words.
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 chor...
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 ...
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.
Zalambdodont
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Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge.
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 commo...
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....
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.
Zantewood
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A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.
A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
Zany
2 defs
A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
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.
An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc.
Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.
A European bream (Abramis vimba).
A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaq...
A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.
A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates.
A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc.
A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.
Zeal
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A zealot.
One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast.
Full of zeal; characterized by zeal.