{ 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.
||Zau*schne"ri*a (?), n. [NL., named for M. Zauschner, a Bohemian botanist.] (Bot.) A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia.
Zax (zks), n. A tool for trimming and puncturing roofing slates. [Written also sax.]
||Za"yat (?; 277), n. A public shed, or portico, for travelers, worshipers, etc. [Burmah]
||Ze"a (z"), n. [L., a kind of grain, fr. Gr. ze`a, zeia`; cf. Skr. yava barley.] (Bot.) A genus of large grasses of which the Indian corn (Zea Mays) is the only species known. Its origin is not yet ascertained. See Maize.
Zeal (zl), n. [F. zèle; cf. Pg. & It. zelo, Sp. zelo, celo; from L. zelus, Gr. &?;, probably akin to &?; to boil. Cf. Yeast, Jealous.]
1. Passionate ardor in the pursuit of anything; eagerness in favor of a person or cause; ardent and active interest; engagedness; enthusiasm; fervor. "Ambition varnished o'er with zeal." Milton. "Zeal, the blind conductor of the will." Dryden. "Zeal's never-dying fire." Keble.