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A girdle; a cincture. [Poetic] An embroidered zone surrounds her waist. Dryden. Loose were her tresses seen, her zone unbound. Collins.

Wearing a zone, or girdle. Pope.

Not having a zone; ungirded. The reeling goddess with the zoneless waist. Cowper. In careless folds, loose fell her zoneless vest. Mason.

n, but now known to be hydrogen dioxide; -- so called because apparently antagonistic to ozone, converting it into ordinary oxygen.

One who gives publicity, proclaims, or blazons; esp., one who blazons coats of arms; a herald. Burke.

A song or air for one or more voices, of Provençal origin, resembling, though not strictly, the madrigal.

A short song, in one or more parts.

One who emblazons; also, one who publishes and displays anything with pomp.

A colorless gaseous substance (O

-- also called starch-iodide paper -->

A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.

ies of basic compounds containing a chain of four nitrogen atoms; for example, ethyl tetrazone, (C2H5)2N.N2.N(C2H5)2, a colorless liquid having an odor of leeks.

The zone lying between the Boreal and Sonoran zones of North America. It includes an eastern or humid subdivision and a western arid one of corresponding temperature comprising the northern Great Plains and the lower slopes of the mountains of the western United States and Mexico. Called also Neutral zone.…

Not zoned; not bound with a girdle; as, an unzoned bosom. Prior.

A genus of malvaceous plants of many species, found in the torrid and temperate zones of both continents; -- called also Indian mallow.

Belonging to, or resembling, an abyss; unfathomable. Abyssal zone (Phys. Geog.), one of the belts or zones into which Sir E. Forbes divides the bottom of the sea in describing its plants, animals, etc. It is the one furthest from the shore, embracing all beyond one hundred fathoms deep. Hence, abyssal animals, plants,…

Pertaining to or designating the humid division of the Transition zone extending across the northern United States from New England to eastern Dakota, and including also most of Pennsylvania and the mountainous region as far south as northern Georgia.

One of the radical zones of echinoderms, along which run the principal nerves, blood vessels, and water tubes. These zones usually bear rows of locomotive suckers or tentacles, which protrude from regular pores. In star fishes they occupy the grooves along the under side of the rays.

Extending over all the zones, from the tropics to the polar zones inclusive.

A scale of the sun's declination for each day of the year, drawn across the torrid zone on an artificial terrestrial globe.