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Zand"mole` (?), n. [Cf. D. zand sand. See Sand, and Mole the animal.] (Zoöl.) The sand mole.

Zan"te (?), n. (Bot.) See Zantewood.

Zan"te cur"rant (?). A kind of seedless grape or raisin; -- so called from Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.

Zan"te*wood` (?), n. (Bot.) (a) A yellow dyewood; fustet; -- called also zante, and zante fustic. See Fustet, and the Note under Fustic. (b) Satinwood (Chloroxylon Swietenia).

Zan"ti*ot (?), n. A native or inhabitant of Zante, one of the Ionian Islands.

Za"ny (?), n.; pl. Zanies (#). [It. zanni a buffoon, merry- andrew, orig. same as Giovanni John, i. e., merry John, L. Ioannes, Gr. &?;, Heb. Ykhnn, prop., the Lord graciously gave: cf. F. zani, fr. the Italian. Cf. Jenneting.] A merry-andrew; a buffoon.

Then write that I may follow, and so be Thy echo, thy debtor, thy foil, thy zany.

Donne.

Preacher at once, and zany of thy age.

Pope.

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Za"ny (?), v. t. To mimic. [Obs.]

Your part is acted; give me leave at distance To zany it.

Massinger.

Za"ny*ism (?), n. State or character of a zany; buffoonery. Coleridge. H. Morley.

Zaph"a*ra (?), n. Zaffer.

||Za*phren"tis (?), n. [NL.] (Paleon.) An extinct genus of cyathophylloid corals common in the Paleozoic formations. It is cup-shaped with numerous septa, and with a deep pit in one side of the cup.

Zap`o*til"la (?), n. (Bot.) See Sapodilla.

Zap"ti*ah (?), n. A Turkish policeman. [Written also zaptieh.]

{ Zar`a*thus"tri*an (?), Zar`a*thus"tric (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to Zarathustra, or Zoroaster; Zoroastrian. Tylor.

Zar`a*thus"trism (?), n. See Zoroastrianism.

Zar"a*tite (?), n. (Min.) [Named after Gen. Zarata of Spain.] A hydrous carbonate of nickel occurring as an emerald-green incrustation on chromite; -- called also emerald nickel.

||Za*re"ba (?), n. (Mil.) An improvised stockade; especially, one made of thorn bushes, etc. [Written also zareeba, and zeriba.] [Egypt]

"Ah," he moralizes, "what wonderful instinct on the part of this little creature to surround itself with a zareba like the troops after Osman Digma."

R. Jefferies.

Zar"nich (?), n. [F., fr. Ar. az- zernkh, fr. Gr. &?;. See Arsenic.] (Min.) Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment.

||Zär"the (?), n. (Zoöl.) A European bream (Abramis vimba). [Written also zaerthe.]

||Za"ti (?), n. (Zoöl.) A species of macaque (Macacus pileatus) native of India and Ceylon. It has a crown of long erect hair, and tuft of radiating hairs on the back of the head. Called also capped macaque.