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Zu"lu-Kaf"fir, n. A member of the Bantu race comprising the Zulus and the Kaffirs.

Zu"ñi*an (?), a. Of or pert. to the Zuñis, or designating their linguistic stock. -- n. A Zuñi.

||Zwie"back` (?), n. [G., fr. zwie- two, twice (see Twice) + backen to bake.] A kind of biscuit or rusk first baked in a loaf and afterwards cut and toasted.

Zwing"li*an (?), a. (Theol.) Of or pertaining to Ulric Zwingli (1481-1531), the reformer of German Switzerland, who maintained that in the Lord's Supper the true body of Christ is present by the contemplation of faith but not in essence or reality, and that the sacrament is a memorial without mystical elements. -- n. A follower of Zwingli.

||Zy*mol"y*sis (?), n. [NL. See Zyme, and Lysis.] (Physiol. Chem.) The action of enzymes; also, the changes produced by such action. -- Zy`mo*lyt"ic (#), a.

Zy"mo*scope (?), n. [Zyme + - scope.] (Physiol. Chem.) An apparatus for determining the fermenting power of yeast by measuring the amount of carbonic acid evolved from a given quantity of sugar.