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To convert or recover from the state of a proselyte. Fuller.

Upside down; topsy-turvy. [Obs.] Robert Greene.

A reddish urinary pigment, considered as the substance which gives to the urine of rheumatism its characteristic color. It also causes the red color often seen in deposits of urates.

Writhen.

pl. pres. of Wit.

Same as Withe, n., 4.

The common support, often branched, of certain species of social Infusoria.

A peculiar organic red coloring matter found in the feathers of various birds.

An extensive artificial and heterogeneous group of animals, formerly adopted by many zoölogists. It included the coelenterates, echinoderms, sponges, Bryozoa, Protozoa, etc.

Any one of the Zoöphyta.

Of or pertaining to zoöphytes.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a zoöphyte.

Of or pertaining to zoöphytology; as, zoöphytological observations.

The natural history zoöphytes.

Any plant of a proposed class or grand division (Zygophytes, Zygophyta, or Zygosporeæ), in which reproduction consists in the union of two similar cells. Cf. Oöphyte.

A bacteroid ferment.

See Zythum.

A brewery. [R.]

A kind of ancient malt beverage; a liquor made from malt and wheat. [Written also zythem.]

One to whom anything is legally abandoned.