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The sand mole.

See Zantewood.

A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.

A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic.

A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.

w; a buffoon. Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany. Donne. Preacher at once, and zany of thy age. Pope.

State or character of a zany; buffoonery. Coleridge. H. Morley.

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. [Written also zaptieh.]

Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian. Tylor.

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. [Written also zareeba, and zeriba.] [Egypt] "Ah," he moralizes, "what wonderful instinct on the part of this little creature to surround itself with a zareba like the troops after Osman Digma." R. Jefferies.

A metallic cuplike stand used for holding a finjan.

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

A European bream (Abramis vimba). [Written also zaerthe.]