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nly by the relative position of the earth with respect to the sun. In the north temperate zone, four seasons, namely, spring, summer, autumn, and winter, are generally recognized. Some parts of the world have three seasons, -- the dry, the rainy, and the cold; other parts have but two, -- the dry and the rainy. The sev…

To make hairy or shaggy; hence, to make rough. Shag the green zone that bounds the boreal skies. J. Barlow.

ld; to quake. "With shuddering horror pale." Milton. The shuddering tennant of the frigid zone. Goldsmith.

Pertaining to or designating the arid division of the Austral zone, including the warmer parts of the western United States and central Mexico. It is divided into the Upper Sonoran, which lies next to the Transition zone, and the Lower Sonoran, next to the Tropical.

Situated under a zone, or zona; -- applied to a membrane between the zona radiata and the umbilical vesicle in the mammal embryo.

cially, the long and flowing garment of knights, worn over the armor, and frequently emblazoned with the arms of the wearer. A long surcoat of pers upon he had.. Chaucer. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

merly worn for protection from the weather. When worn over the armor it was commonly emblazoned with the arms of the wearer, and from this the name was given to the garment adopted for heralds. [Spelt also taberd.]

Belonging to the same zone; as, tautozonal planes.

ing from temperance. [R.] The temperate sleeps, and spirits light as air. Pope. Temperate zone (Geog.), that part of the earth which lies between either tropic and the corresponding polar circle; -- so called because the heat is less than in the torrid zone, and the cold less than in the frigid zones.…

ed in space by a point, line, or surface; to stop short; to end; to cease; as, the torrid zone terminates at the tropics.

miles; as, the three-mile limit, or the limit of the marine belt (the three-mile belt or zone) of three miles included in territorial waters (which see) of a state.

; tinge; tincture; tint. [Archaic] "Blue of heaven's own tinct." Shak. All the devices blazoned on the shield, In their own tinct. Tennyson.

enty hot; drying or scorching with heat; burning; parching. "Torrid heat." Milton. Torrid zone (Geog.), that space or board belt of the earth, included between the tropics, over which the sun is vertical at some period of every year, and the heat is always great.

and trap his tomb-black steed. Spenser. There she found her palfrey trapped In purple blazoned with armorial gold. Tennyson.

elligence or sense; senseless; expressionless; as, an unmeaning face. There pride sits blazoned on the unmeaning brow. Trumbull. -- Un*mean"ing*ly, adv. -- Un*mean"ing*ness, n.

irginia. Also called blue weed. -- Viper's grass (Bot.), a perennial composite herb (Scorzonera Hispanica) with narrow, entire leaves, and solitary heads of yellow flowers. The long, white, carrot-shaped roots are used for food in Spain and some other countries. Called also viper grass.

, and its timber. The seven or eight known species are all natives of the north temperate zone.

herb (Calla palustris) having a white spathe. It is an inhabitant of the north temperate zone.

olia), so named because of its fibrous bark. -- Woolly louse (Zoöl.), a plant louse (Schizoneura, or Erisoma, lanigera) which is often very injurious to the apple tree. It is covered with a dense coat of white filaments somewhat resembling fine wool or cotton. In exists in two forms, one of which infests the roots, th…

A zone or band; a layer. Zona pellucida. Etym: [NL.] (Biol.)