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- English Word Zemindari Definition Same as Zamindary.
- English Word Zemindary Definition Alt. of Zemindari
- English Word Zemni Definition The blind mole rat (Spalax typhlus), native of Eastern Europe and Asia. Its eyes and ears are rudimentary, and its fur is soft and brownish, more or less tinged with gray. It constructs extensive burrows.
- English Word Zenana Definition The part of a dwelling appropriated to women.
- English Word Zend Definition Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written.
- English Word Zend-Avesta Definition The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date.
- English Word Zendik Definition An atheist or unbeliever; -- name given in the East to those charged with disbelief of any revealed religion, or accused of magical heresies.
- English Word Zenick Definition A South African burrowing mammal (Suricata tetradactyla), allied to the civets. It is grayish brown, with yellowish transverse stripes on the back. Called also suricat.
- English Word Zenik Definition See Zenick.
- English Word Zenith Definition hence, figuratively, the point of culmination; the greatest height; the height of success or prosperity.
- English Word Zenith Definition That point in the visible celestial hemisphere which is vertical to the spectator; the point of the heavens directly overhead; -- opposed to nadir.
- English Word Zenithal Definition Of or pertaining to the zenith.
- English Word Zeolite Definition 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.
- English Word Zeolitic Definition Of or pertaining to a zeolite; consisting of, or resembling, a zeolite.
- English Word Zeolitiform Definition Having the form of a zeolite.
- English Word Zephyr Definition The west wind; poetically, any soft, gentle breeze.
- English Word Zephyrus Definition The west wind, or zephyr; -- usually personified, and made the most mild and gentle of all the sylvan deities.
- English Word Zequin Definition See Sequin.
- English Word Zerda Definition The fennec.
- English Word Zeriba Definition Same as Zareba.