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441.
Zēlōt(e
n.
Additional spellings:
Zelote
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A member of a Jewish party of revolutionaries;—used as epithet.
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Zephirus
n.
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(a) The mild west wind; freq.
person.
or reified; also, one of the winds blowing from the west, the west-southwest wind; (b) as proper name.
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zēta
n.
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The name of the Greek letter ζ.
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zeuma
n.
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Gram.
The figure comprising constructions in which a verb appears to be governed by two nouns in the nominative, with only one of which it agrees.
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445.
zīzamīne
adj.
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Anat.
Sesamoid.
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zīzannī(e
n.
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zizannie
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A weed growing in grain fields, tares; prob. darnel
Lolium temulentum
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