An Indian of a linguistic stock of tribes of the Peruvian coast who had a developed agricultural civilization at the advent of the Spaniards, before which they had been conquered by the Incas. They constructed irrigation canals which are still in use, adorned their buildings with bas-reliefs and frescoes, and were skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths.

A genus of birds comprising the wrynecks.

Same as Yaupon.

an ambitious young adult, usually college-educated, living in or near a large city, with a professional career and an affluent lifestyle. The "u" in the word is sometimes interpreted as meaning /upwardly mobile/.

See Yex, n.

Evil; ill.

Aware; wary.

Certainly; most likely; truly; probably.

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.

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.

A European bream (Abramis vimba).

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 pottery, to produce a blue color, and is often confounded with smalt, from which, however, it is distinct, as it contains no potash. The name is often loosely applied to mixtures of zaffer proper with silica, or oxides of iron, manganese, etc.

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.

One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples.

the battle in 202 BC in which Scipio decisively defeated Hannibal at the end of the second Punic War.

A large ornamental tropical American tree (Albizia saman) with bipinnate leaves and globose clusters of flowers with crimson stamens and sweet-pulp seed pods eaten by cattle.

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 rain tree.

of or pertaining to Zambia; as, Zambian cities.

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

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.

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 bush cow.

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.

See Zantewood.

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.

Comical in a clownish or buffoonish manner; whimsically comical.

To mimic.

State or character of a zany; buffoonery.

to shoot, destroy, or inactivate; my TV set was zapped by lightning.

See Army organization, above.

A cured olive which has spoiled or is on the verge of decomposition; loosely, an olive defective because of bruises, wormholes, or the like.

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.

The Persian name for Zoroaster.

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.

A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan.

Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.

Grooves or furrows formed in snow by the action of the wind, and running parallel with the direction of the wind. This formation results from the erosion of transverse waves previously formed.

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 macaque.

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.

To be zealous.

One who is zealous; a zealot; an enthusiast.

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 absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical partisan.

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.

See Xebec.

Any member of three species of African wild horses remarkable for having the body white or yellowish white, and conspicuously marked with dark brown or brackish bands.

A lizard having a long tail with black bands (Callisaurus draconoides), which lives in the deserts of the southwestern U. S. and Mexico; called also gridiron-tailed lizard.

A kind of cabinet wood having beautiful black, brown, and whitish stripes, the timber of a tropical American tree (Connarus Guianensis). The wood of a small West Indian myrtaceous tree (Eugenia fragrans). The wood of an East Indian tree of the genus Guettarda.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.

A cross between a male horse and a female zebra.

A cross between a male zebra and a female horse.

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 dewlap, and a large, prominent hump over the shoulders; but these characters vary in different domestic breeds, which range in size from that of the common ox to that of a large mastiff.

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.

The spirit of the time; the general intellectual and moral state or temper characteristic of any period of time.

Same as Zamindar.

Same as Zamindary.

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 constructs extensive burrows.

In Russia, an elective local district and provincial administrative assembly. Originally it was composed of representatives elected by the peasantry, the householders of the towns, and the landed proprietors. In the reign of Alexander III. the power of the noble landowners was increased, the peasants allowed only to elect candidates from whom the governor of the province nominated the deputy, and all acts of the zemstvo subjected to the approval of the governor. Theoretically the zemstvo has large powers relating to taxation, education, public health, etc., but practically these powers are in most cases limited to the adjustment of the state taxation.

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 Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.

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.

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, analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others. These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species intumesce before the blowpipe.

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.

A dirigible balloon of the rigid type, consisting of a cylindrical trussed and covered frame supported by internal gas cells, and provided with means of propulsion and control. It was first successfully used by Ferdinand Count von Zeppelin.

See Sequin.

The fennec.

Same as Zareba.

To cut into thin slips, as the peel of an orange, lemon, etc.; to squeeze, as peel, over the surface of anything.

Marked by spirited enjoyment.

Having a pleasantly stimulating flavor. Opposite of bland.

A Greek letter [/] corresponding to our z.

A seeker; -- a name adopted by some of the Pyrrhonists.

A branch of algebra which relates to the direct search for unknown quantities.

A genus of extinct Eocene whales, remains of which have been found in the Gulf States. The species had very long and slender bodies and broad serrated teeth. See Phocodontia.

Same as Phocodontia.

A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, /hic illius arma, hic currus fuit;/ where fuit, which agrees directly with currus, is referred also to arma.

Of or pertaining to zeugma; characterized by zeugma.

Same as Zygobranchia.

The chief deity of the Greeks, and ruler of the upper world (cf. Hades). He was identified with Jupiter.

Any one of a group of bombycid moths of which the genus Zeuzera is the type. Some of these moths are of large size. The goat moth is an example.

See Ceylanite.

A carnivorous mammal (Viverra zibetha) closely allied to the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more numerous.

Curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation.