zoster (zoster)

[ The chiton. is girt round under the breast, to keep it from falling, by a girdle (zoster). Encyc . Brit ., VI. 453. 2. Same as herpes zoster (which see, under her pes ). 7043 in shallow bays and other waters, often forming large ma es, growing from slender creeping rootstocks. The long narrowly linear two-ranked leaves are the place of attachment of great numbers of alge, and the feeding places of many of the smaller forms of animal life. 2. marina is known in America as eel - gra and in England C 1 3 2 Zuñian theca.] In anc. arch., a niche or an alcove; also, a small living-room, or room used by day, as opposed to a sleeping-room or dormitory. Zouave (zö-äv'), n. [F., from the name of a tribe inhabiting Algeria.] 1. A soldier belonging to a corps of light infantry in the French army, distinguished for their dash, intrepidity, and hardihood, and for their peculiar drill and showy Oriental uniform. The Zouaves were organized in Algeria in 1831, and consisted at first of two battalions chiefly of Kabyles and other natives, but ultimately became almost entirely French, with increased numbers. They served exclusively in Algeria till 1854, and afterward fought in European wars. 2. A member of one of the volunteer regiments of the Union army in the American civil war (1861-5) which adopted the name and to some extent imitated the dre of the French Zouaves.- Papal or pontifical Zouaves, a corps of French soldiers organized at Rome in 1860 for the defense of the temporal sovereignty of the Pope, under Gen. Lamoricière, one of the first commanders of the Algerian Zouaves. After obstinately resisting the entrance of the Italian government into Rome in 1870, they served in France against the Germans and the Commune, and in 1871 were disbanded.