Dictionary
Found: 354 words.
Full of zeal.
Wanting zeal.
One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially, one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one abs...
Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous.
The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry.
A zealot.
The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause.
Zealous
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Filled with religious zeal.
See Xebec.
Either one of two species of South African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.
Zebrawood
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A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis).
Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.
A bovine mammal (Ros Indicus) extensively domesticated in India, China, the East Indies, and East Africa. It usually has short horns, large pendulous ears, slender legs, a large de...
A large noxious fly of Abyssinia, which like the tsetse fly, is destructive to cattle.
See Sequin.
The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.
The letter Z; -- called also zee, and formerly izzard.
A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste. It is used in medicine as a stimulant.
A hippopotamus.
An Austrian silver coin equal to ten kreutzers, or about five cents.
A nitrogenous substance of the nature of gluten, obtained from the seeds of Indian corn (Zea) as a soft, yellowish, amorphous substance.
Same as Zamindar.
Same as Zamindary.
Alt. of Zemindari
The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It const...
The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.
Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient...
The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.
An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.
A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.
See Zenick.
Zenith
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hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.
Of or pertaining to the zenith.
A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals, hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite, analci...
Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or resembling, a zeolite.
Having the form of a zeolite.
The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.
The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.
See Sequin.
The fennec.
Same as Zareba.
Zero
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A cipher; nothing; naught.
of Zero
of Zero
Zest
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A piece of orange or lemon peel, or the aromatic oil which may be squeezed from such peel, used to give flavor to liquor, etc.
of Zest
of Zest
A Greek letter corresponding to our z.
Zetetic
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A seeker; -- a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists.
A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities.