Zouave jacket (zoavjak"et)

1. A short jacket, not reaching to the waist, cut away in front: a part of the Zouave uniform.-2. A similar jacket, usually ornamented, with or without sleeves, worn by women. zounds (zoundz), interj. [For ' swounds, abbr. of God's wounds, referring to the wounds of Christ on the cro ; one of the innumerable oaths having reference to Christ's pa ion.] An exclamation formerly used as an oath or as an expre ion of anger or wonder. Zounds, sir! then I insist on your quitting the room directly. Sheridan , School for Scandal, v. 3. zoutch (zouch), v. t. [Origin obscure.] To stew, as flounders, whitings, gudgeons, eels, etc., with 1841), Silver-eye or White-eye (Zosterops cærules cens). tralia, the Chas am Islands, and New Zealand, the cerulean creeper, and rusty-sided warbler of the older orni thologists. Z. madagascar i ens is is the white-eyed warbler of Latham. Z. olivacea is the olive creeper of Bourbon (Réunion). Z. mauri tian a is the Maurice warbler of Mauritius. Z. lugubris, Z. borbonica, Z. chloronota, Z. fallax, Z. leucophæa, Z. muelleri, Z. finschi, and Z. senega lens is have severally been made types of other genera. Some of these birds have been placed in Dicæum, and are among those known to the French ornithologists as sou i mangas. 2. [l. c.] Any bird of this genus. Eng.] Zr. In chem., the symbol for zirconium. zucchetta (tsük-ket'tä), n. [It. zucchetta, a small gourd, a skullcap, dim. of zucca, a gourd.] 1. In the Rom. Cath. Ch., the skullcap of an ecclesiastic, covering the tonsure. That of a priest is black, of a bishop purple, of a cardinal red, and of the Pope white. Also written zucchetto.-2. A late form of burganet, distinguished by having a movable nasal, hinged cheek-pieces, and an articulated couvre nuque. zufolo, zuffolo (zö ́fo-lō), n. [It. zufolo,