(n.) 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.

(n.) State or character of a zany; buffoonery.

(n.) Zaffer.

(n.) A Turkish policeman.

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

(a.) Full of zeal.

(a.) Filled with, or characterized by, zeal; warmly engaged, or ardent, in behalf of an object.

(a.) Filled with religious zeal.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the zebra.

(n.) 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.

(n.) 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.

(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Zest

(a.) Seeking; proceeding by inquiry.

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

(imp. & p. p.) of Zinc

() of Zinc

(n.) A binary compound of zinc.

(v. t.) To coat or impregnate with zinc.

(n.) Native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange-red color; -- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.

(n.) The act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.

(n.) The positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, zinc; -- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic; as, zincous salts.

(a.) Hence, formerly, basic, basylous, as opposed to chlorous.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro-positive.

(pl. ) of Zingaro

(n.) A gypsy.

(n.) The delundung.

(n.) See Cittern.

(n.) Same as Socle.

(n.) A grayish or whitish mineral occurring in orthorhombic, prismatic crystals, also in columnar masses. It is a silicate of alumina and lime, and is allied to epidote.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a zone; zone-shaped.

(n.) A zonule.

(n.) A cyst formed by certain Protozoa and unicellular plants which the contents divide into a large number of granules, each of which becomes a germ.

(pl. ) of Zooecium

(n.) The sexual reproduction of animals.

(n.) Alt. of Zoogony

(n.) The doctrine of the formation of living beings.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a zooid; as, a zooidal form.

(n.) That part of biology which relates to the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and distribution of all animals, both living and extinct.

(n.) A treatise on this science.

(n.) One of the segments of the body of an articulate animal.

(n.) One of the theoretic transverse divisions of any segmented animal.

(n.) The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

(n.) Same as Zoonite.

(n.) The dissection or the anatomy of animals; -- distinguished from androtomy.

(n.) Either one of two species of small African carnivores of the genus Ictonyx allied to the weasels and skunks.

(n.) A fluosilicate of alumina occurring in tetrahedral crystals at the Zu/i mine in Colorado.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, most of which are bright colored. The wood nymph and the vine forester are examples. Also used adjectively.

(n.) Same as Conjugation.

(n.) A mother substance, or antecedent, of an enzyme or chemical ferment; -- applied to such substances as, not being themselves actual ferments, may by internal changes give rise to a ferment.

(n.) A fermentation; hence, an analogous process by which an infectious disease is believed to be developed.

(n.) A zymotic disease.

(a.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, fermentation.

(a.) Designating, or pertaining to, a certain class of diseases. See Zymotic disease, below.