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 sevent ...
Zabaism:
Alt. of Zabism
Zabism:
See Sabianism.
Zabian:
See Sabian.
Zacco:
See Zocco.
Zachun:
An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment.
Zaerthe:
Same as Z/rthe.
Zaffer:
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 paintin ...
Zaim:
A Turkish chief who supports a mounted militia bearing the same name.
Zaimet:
A district from which a Zaim draws his revenue.
Zain:
A horse of a dark color, neither gray nor white, and having no spots.
Zalambdodont:
Of or pertaining to a tribe (Zalambdodonta) of Insectivora in which the molar teeth have but one V-shaped ridge.
Zalambdodont:
One of the Zalambdodonta. The tenrec, solenodon, and golden moles are examples.
Zamang:
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 catt ...
Zambos:
of Zambo
Zambo:
The child of a mulatto and a negro; also, the child of an Indian and a negro; colloquially or humorously, a negro; a sambo.
Zamia:
A genus of cycadaceous plants, having the appearance of low palms, but with exogenous wood. See Coontie, and Illust. of Strobile.
Zamindar:
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.
Zamindary:
Alt. of Zamindari
Zamindari:
The jurisdiction of a zamindar; the land possessed by a zamindar.
Zamite:
A fossil cycad of the genus Zamia.
Zamouse:
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-h ...
Zampogna:
A sort of bagpipe formerly in use among Italian peasants. It is now almost obsolete.
Zander:
A European pike perch (Stizostedion lucioperca) allied to the wall-eye; -- called also sandari, sander, sannat, schill, and zant.
Zandmole:
The sand mole.
Zante:
See Zantewood.
Zante currant:
A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
Zantewood:
A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.
Zantewood:
Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).
Zantiot:
A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.
Zanies:
of Zany
Zany:
A merry-andrew; a buffoon.
Zany:
To mimic.
Zanyism:
State or character of a zany; buffoonery.
Zaphara:
Zaffer.
Zaphrentis:
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.
Zapotilla:
See Sapodilla.
Zaptiah:
A Turkish policeman.
Zarathustrian:
Alt. of Zarathustric
Zarathustric:
Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian.