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<LETTER LETTER="Z"><ENTRY SENSE="2" ID="EZ.2" PAGE="9D/2"><HEADWORD>Z</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><TEXT>was a numeral letter signifying 2000.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY><ENTRY SENSE="3" ID="eZ.3" PAGE="9D/2"><HEADWORD><BAR>Z</BAR></HEADWORD><DEFINITION><TEXT>with a dash at the top, signified 2000 times 2000.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY><ENTRY SENSE="2" ID="eZeal.2" PAGE="9D/2"><HEADWORD>Zeal</HEADWORD><DEFINITION><TEXT>may be properly represented by a <KW>Jesuit</KW> holding in one hand a scourge, and in the other a burning lamp.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY><ENTRY ID="eZebra.1" PAGE="9D/2"><HEADWORD>Ze&stress;bra</HEADWORD><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>an
<PLACE>Indian</PLACE>
beast like a mule.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
<ENTRY ID="eZock.1" PAGE="9D/3"><HEADWORD>Zock</HEADWORD><DEFINITION>
<TEXT>a
mineral also called
<KW>Spelter</KW>.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY><ENTRY ID="eZone.5" PAGE="9D/3"><HEADPHRASE>The Frigid or Frozen <HEADWORD>Zone</HEADWORD></HEADPHRASE><DEFINITION><ETYMOLOGY>so named of <LEXGROUP><ROOT><SEMANTEME>frigidus</SEMANTEME><DIRT>, </DIRT><LANGUAGENAME>L.</LANGUAGENAME><MEANING>exceeding cold</MEANING></ROOT></LEXGROUP>; because they being far remote from the course of the sun in the ecliptick, they can partake of but little of its heat</ETYMOLOGY><TEXT>are segments of the surface of the earth terminated, the one by the <PLACE>Antarctic</PLACE>, and the other by the <PLACE>Arctic</PLACE> circle, comprehended between the poles and the polar circles: that towards the <KW TYPE="compass point">South</KW> is not yet known whether it be land or water; that towards the <KW TYPE="compass point">North</KW> contains part of <PLACE>Iceland</PLACE> and <PLACE>Norway</PLACE>, <PLACE>Lapland</PLACE>, <PLACE>Finmark</PLACE>, <PLACE>Somoseda</PLACE>, <PLACE>Nova Zembla</PLACE>, <PLACE>Greenland</PLACE>; and some other parts of <PLACE>North America</PLACE>.</TEXT></DEFINITION></ENTRY>
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