ZOCCO, ZOCLE, ZOCCOLO noun [Latin , a sock.] A square body under the base of a pedestal, etc. Serving for the support of a bust, statue or column.

ZOCCO, ZOCLE ZOCCOLO, noun [Latin , a sock.] A square body under the base of a pedestal, etc. Serving for the support of a bust, statue or column.

ZODIAC, noun [L, Gr., an animal.] A broad circle in the heavens, containing the twelve signs through which the sun passes in its annual course. The center of this belt is the ecliptic, which is the path of the sun. It intersects the equator at an angle or 23 degrees and a half or rather 29 minutes. This is called its obliquity.

2. A girdle.

ZODIACAL, adjective Pertaining to the zodiac.

ZODIACAL light, a luminous track or space in the heavens, resembling that of the milky way, sometimes appearing after sunset and before sunrising.

ZOISITE, noun [from Van Zois, its discoverer.] A mineral regarded as a variety of epidote. It occurs in deeply striated rhomboidal prisms, much compressed and rounded; its colors gray, yellowish or bluish gray, brown, grayish yellow, or reddish white. This is called also a subspecies of prismatoidal augite.

ZONE, noun [Latin , Gr.]

1. A girdle.

An embroiderd zone surrounds her waist.

2. In geography, a division of the earth, with respect to the temperature of different latitudes. The zones are five; the torrid zone extending from tropic to tropic 46 degrees, 56 degrees, or 23 degrees 28' on each side of the equator; two temperate or variable zones, situated between the tropics and polar circles; and two frigid zones, situated between the polar circles and the poles.

3. Circuit; circumference.

Ciliary zone in anatomy, the black impression of the ciliary processes on the vitreous humor of the eye.

ZONED, adjective Wearing a zone.

ZONNAR, noun A belt or girdle, which the Christians and Jews in the Levat are obliged to wear, to distinguish them from the Mohammedans.

ZOOGRAPHER, noun [See Zoography.] One who describes animals, their forms and habits.

ZOOGRAPHICAL, adjective Pertaining to the description of animals.

ZOOGRAPHY, noun [Gr., an animal; to describe.] A description of animals, their forms and habits. [But zoology is generally used.]

ZOOLITE, noun [Gr., an animal; stone.] An animal substance petrified or fossil.

ZOOLOGICAL, adjective [from zoology.] Pertaining to zoology, or the science of animals.

ZOOLOGICALLY, adverb According to the principles of zoology.

ZOOLOGIST, noun [from zoology.] One who is well versed in the natural history of animals, or who describes animals.

ZOOLOGY, noun [Gr., an animal; discourse.] A treatise on animals, or the science of animals; that branch of natural history which respects the forms, classification, history and habits of animals, particularly of brutes or irrational animals.

ZOONIC, adjective [Gr., an animal.] Pertaining to animals; as the zoonic acid, obtained from animal substances.

ZOONOMY, noun [Gr., an animal; law.] The laws of animal life, or the science which treats of the phenomena of animal life, their causes and relations.

ZOOPHITE. [See Zoophyte.]

ZOOPHORIC, adjective [Gr., an animal; to bear.] The zoophoric column is one which supports the figure of an animal.

ZOOPHORUS, noun [supra.] In ancient architecture, the same with the frieze in modern architecture; a part between the architrave and cornice; so called from the figures of animals carved upon it.

ZOOPHYTE, noun [Gr., an animal; a plant.] In natural history, a body supposed to partake of the nature both of an animal and a vegetable, such as madrepores, millepores, corallines, etc.

ZOOPHYTOLOGICAL, adjective Pertaining to zoophytology.

ZOOPHYTOLOGY, noun [zoophyte, Gr., discourse.] The natural history of zoophytes.

ZOOTOMIST, noun [See Zootomy.] One who dissects the bodies of brute animals; a comparative anatomist.

ZOOTOMY, noun [Gr., an animal; to cut.] Anatomy; particularly, the dissecting of bodies of beasts or brute animals; comparative anatomy, or the anatomy of brute animals.

ZORIL, noun A fetid animal of the weasel kind, found in South America.