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An American Dictionary of the English Language

by Noah Webster

Revised and enlarged (Goodrich & Porter)

Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865

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  1. Zā'ba-īsm, n.p. 1536The same as SABIANISM, q. v.
  2. Zā'e'cho, n.p. 1536(Arch.) The lowest part of the pedestal of a column.
  3. Zāf'fer, n.p. 1536(Chem.) Impure oxide of cobalt; the residuum of cobalt, after the sulphur, arsenic, and other volatile matters have been expelled by calcination, being a gray or dark-gray substance, consisting of…
  4. Zaīm, n.p. 1536A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name. Smart.
  5. Zāïm'et, n.p. 1536A district whence a Zaim draws his revenue. Smart.
  6. Zāin, n.p. 1536A horse of a dark color, neither gray nor white, and having no spots. Smart.
  7. Zăm’bo, n.p. 1536The child of a mulatto and a negro; a sambo; also, sometimes, the child of an Indian and a negro.
  8. Zā′mi-ă, n.p. 1536(Bot.) A genus of plants, possessing nearly equal affinities with palms and tree-ferns, and bearing heads of flowers like pine-cones.
  9. Zā'mite, n.p. 1536(Paleon.) A fossil plant of the genus Zamia. Brande.
  10. Zān'te-wood, n.p. 1536(Bot.) (a.) A plant of the genus Rhus (R. cotinus). (b.) A plant of the genus Chloroxylon (C. Swietenia). Simmonds.
  11. Zăn′ti-ot, n.p. 1536(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Zante.
  12. Zā'ny, n.p. 1536A merry-andrew; a buffoon. “Preacher at once and zany of thy age.” Pope. Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy fool, thy zany. Donne.
  13. Zā'ny, v. t.p. 1536To mimic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.
  14. Zā'ny-ïsm, n.p. 1536The state or character of a zany.
  15. Zāph'a-rā, n.p. 1536A mineral used by potters to produce a blue tint or sky-color in their wares; zaffer.
  16. Zăp'o-tĭl'lă, n.p. 1536See SAPOTILLA.
  17. Zär'nich, n.p. 1536Native sulphuret of arsenic; sandarach or realgar; orpiment.
  18. Zāx, n.p. 1536An instrument for cutting slate.
  19. Zā'gat, n.p. 1536A Burman caravansary, or resting-place for travelers.
  20. Zē'ia, n.p. 1536A genus of plants of which only two species are known, namely, Z. mays and Z. caragua. The former is common Indian corn; the latter is quite different as respects the ear and seeds.
  21. Zēal, n.p. 1536Passionate ardor in the pursuit of any thing; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness. “Ambition varnished o’er with zeal.” Milton. “Zeal, the blind conductor…
  22. Zēal, v. i.p. 1536To be zealous. [Obs. and rare.]
  23. Zēal'ant, n.p. 1536One who is zealous; a zealot or enthusiast. [Obs. and rare.] To certain zealants, all speech of pacification is odious. Bacon.
  24. Zēaled, p. a.p. 1536Full of zeal; characterized by zeal. [Obs.] “Zealed religion.” Beau. & Fl.
  25. Zēal'less, a.p. 1536Wanting zeal. Hammond.
  26. Zēal′ot, n.p. 1536One 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…
  27. Zea-lôt'ic-al, a.p. 1536Like, or suitable to, a zealot; ardently zealous. [Rare.]
  28. Zēal'ot-ism, n.p. 1536The character or conduct of a zealot; zealotry. [Rare.]
  29. Zēal'ot-ist, n.p. 1536A zealot. [Obs.]
  30. Zēal'ot-ry, n.p. 1536The character and behavior of a zealot; excess of zeal; fanatical devotion to a cause. Enthusiasm, visionariness, seems the tendency of the German; zeal, zealotry, of the English; fanaticism, of the…
  31. Zēal'ous, a.p. 1536Filled with zeal; warmly engaged or ardent in behalf of an object. Being thus saved himself, he may be zealous in the salvation of souls. Law.
  32. Zēal'ōus-ly, adv.p. 1536In a zealous manner; with passionate ardor; with eagerness. It is good to be zealously affected always in a good thing. Gal. iv. 18. 2. Religiously. [Obs. and rare.] A father or a brother may be…
  33. Zēal'oüs-ness, n.p. 1536The state or quality of being zealous; zeal.
  34. Zē'bee, n.p. 1536The same as XEBEC. See XEBEC.
  35. Zē'bră, n.p. 1536(Zoöl.) A solidungulate mammal (the Equus zebra), a quadruped of Southern Africa, nearly as large as a horse, white, with numerous brownish-black bands of greater or less intensity, and lighter down…
  36. Zē'brā-wood, n.p. 1536A kind of wood from South America, used in cabinet-making, having stripes of brown and black on a white ground, resembling those of a zebra. It is obtained from the Omphalobium Lamberti.
  37. Zē'bū, n.p. 1536(Zoöl.) A ruminant mammal of the bovine tribe (the Bos Indicus), small in size, and remarkable for its long, pendulous ears, and a fatty excrescence or hump on the shoulders, which is valued for…
  38. Zē'bub, n.p. 1536(Entom.) A large, noxious fly of Abyssinia.
  39. Zē'chin, n.p. 1536An Italian gold coin; a sequin. See SEQUIN.
  40. Zēch'stein, n.p. 1536(Geol.) A magnesian limestone of the Permian period. Dana.
  41. Zēd, n.p. 1536The letter Z;— called also izzard. [Obs.] Shak.
  42. Zēd'o-a-ry, n.p. 1536(Med.) A medicinal substance obtained in the East Indies, having a fragrant smell, and a warm, bitter, aromatic taste, used in medicine as a stimulant. ☞ It is the root of a species of Cucuma, and…
  43. Zē'ine, n.p. 1536(Chem.) The gluten of maize; a substance of a yellowish color, soft, insipid, and elastic, procured from the seeds of the Zea mays, or Indian corn. Gorham.
  44. Zēm'in-dār', n.p. 1536A feudatory or landholder under the government, with the right of underletting the land, and certain other privileges, leading to much oppression. [India.] Malcom.
  45. Zēm’in-da-ry, n.p. 1536The jurisdiction of a zemindar.
  46. Zēm'-zēm, n.p. 1536The holy well in Mecca.
  47. Ze-nā'nā, n.p. 1536The part of a dwelling appropriated to women in the East Indies. Burke.
  48. Zēnd, n.p. 1536Properly, the translation into the Huzvāresh, or Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian scriptures; as commonly used, the language, an ancient Persian dialect, in which the Avesta is…
  49. Zēnd' a-vĕs'tā, n.p. 1536The Scriptures of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but in fact chiefly or altogether of a later date.
  50. Zēn'dīk, n.p. 1536An atheist or unbeliever;—a name given, in the East, to those charged with atheism, or rather with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies. Brande.
  51. Zē'nik, n.p. 1536(Zoöl.) A certain African quadruped; the suricate. See SURICATE.
  52. Zē'nith, n.p. 1536That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead;—opposed to nadir. From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve, A…
  53. Zē'nith-al, a.p. 1536Of, or pertaining to, the zenith. “The deep zenithal blue.” Tyndall.
  54. Zē'o-lite, n.p. 1536(Min.) A mineral species in the early works on mineralogy, now subdivided into several, both on chemical and crystallographical grounds. Some of them are stilbite, natrolite, apophyllite, scolecite…
  55. Zē'o-lit'ic, a.p. 1536Of, or pertaining to, zeolite; consisting of zeolite, or resembling it.
  56. Zē'o-lit'i-fōrm, a.p. 1536Having the form of zeolite.
  57. Zēph'yr, n.p. 1536The west wind; and poetically, any soft, mild, gentle breeze. As gentle As zephyrs blowing below the violet. Shak. Zephyr cloth, a kind of kerseymere made in Belgium; a water-proof fabric.—Zephyr…
  58. Zēph'y-rŭs, n.p. 1536The west wind, or zephyr;—personified by the poets, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities. Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes. Milton.
  59. Zēr'dā, n.p. 1536(Zoöl.) A canine quadruped of Africa, with large, ears; fennec; the Canis (or Megalotis) zerda.
  60. Zē′ro, n.p. 1537Cipher; nothing; naught; the point from which the graduation, as of a thermometer, commences. Zero, in the thermometers of Celsius and Réaumur, is at the point at which water congeals. The zero of…