Volume 2

A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson.

Samuel Johnson

Date:: 1755

Credit: A dictionary of the English language: in which the words are deduced from their originals, and illustrated in their different significations by examples from the best writers. To which are prefixed, a history of the language, and an English grammar / by Samuel Johnson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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$Ze'phyr. )«./ [:zephyrus, Latin.] The weft wind; and Ze'phyrus. ) poetically any calm Toft wind. They are as gentle As zephyrs blowing b. low the violet. Shakefpecre’s Cymbeline. Zephyr, you fhall fee a youth with a merry countenance, holding in his hand a fwan with wings difplayed, as about to ftng. Peacham on Drawing. Forth rufh the levent and the ponent wines, Eurus and Zephyr. Milton. Mild as when Zephyrus on Flora breathes. Milton. Their every mufick wakes, W hence blending all the fweeten’d zephyr fprings. Phomfon. Zest. n.f. 1. The peel of an orange fqueezed into wine. 2. A relifh ; a tafte added. To Zest. v. a. To heighten by an additional relifh. Zete'tick.. adj. [from Proceeding by enquiry. Zeu GMA. n.f. [from A figure in Grammar, when a verb agreeing with divers nouns, or an adjedtive with divers fubftantives, is referred to one exprefly, and to the other by fupplement, as luft overcame fhame, boldnefs fear, and mad- nefs reafon. Zoc'le. n. f. [In architecture.] A fmall fort of ftand or pe- deftal, being a low fquare piece or member, ferving to fup- port a bufto, ftatue, or the like, that needs to be raifed ; alfo a low fquare member ferving to fupport a column, inftead of a pedeftal, bafe, or plinth. Did}. Zo'diack. n.f. [zodiaque, French; hi ruv ^cSuv, the living creatures, the figures of which are painted on it in globes.] The track of the fun through the twelve figns; a great circle of the fphere, containing the twelve figns. The golden fun falutes the morn. And having gilt the ocean with his beams. Gallops the zodiack in his glift’ring coach. Shakefpeare. Years he number’d fcarce thirteen, When fates turn’d cruel; Yet three fill’d zod'tacks had he been The ftage’s jewel. Ben. Johnfon. By his fide. As in a glift’ring zodiack hung the fword, Satan’s dire dread; and in his hand the fpear. Milton. It exceeds even their abfurdity to fuppofe the zodiack and planets to be efficient of, and antecedent to themfelves, or to exert any influences before they were in being. Bentley. Here in a fhrine that caft a dazling light, Sat fixt in thought the mighty Stagyrite; His facred head a radiant zodiack crown’d. And various animals his fides furround. Pope. Zone, n.f [£wvii; zona, Latin,] i. A girdle. The middle part Girt like a ftarry zone his waift, and round Skirted his loins, and thighs, with downy gold And colours dipp’d in heav’n. Milton s Paradife Lofl. An embroider’d zone furrounds her waift. Dry den. Thy ftatues, Venus, though by Phidias’ hands Defign’d immortal, yet no longer ftands } The magick of thy fhining zone is paft, But Salifbury’s garter fhall for ever laft. Granville. Scarce could the goddefs from her nymph be knoWn* But by the crefcent and the golden zone. Popi. 2. A divifion of the earth. The whole furface of the earth is divided into five zones: the firft is contained between the two tropicks, and is called the torrid zone. There are two temperate zones, and two fri¬ gid zones. The northern temperate zone is terminated by the tropick of Cancer and the artick polar circle: the fouthern temperate zone is contained between the tropick of Capricorn and the polar circle: the frigid zones are circumfcribed by the polar circles, and the poles are in their centers. True love is ftill the fame: the torrid zones. And thofe more frigid ones, It muft not know : For love grown cold or hot. Is luft or friendfhip, not The thing we fhow; For that’s a flame would die, * Held down or up too high : Then think I love more than I can exprefsj And would love more, could I but love thee lefs. Suckling„ As five zones th’ etherial regions bind, Five correfpondent are to earth aflign’d: The fun, with rays directly,darting down. Fires all beneath, and fries the middle zone. Dryden. 3. Circuit; circumference. Scarce the fun Hath finifh’d half his journey, and fcarce begins His other half in the great zone of heav’n. Milton. Zoo'grapher. n.f [£wji' and ygaPpa.] One who deferibes the nature, properties, and forms of animals. One kind of locuft ftands not prone, or a little inclining upward; but a large erectnefs, elevating the two fore legs, and fuftaining itfelf in the middle of the other four, by zoo- graphers called the prophet and praying locuft. Brown's Vulgar Errours. Zoo'graphy. n.f. [of £m and •y^oKpu.] A defeription of * the forms, natures, and properties of animals. If we contemplate the end of the effect, its principal final caufe being the glory of its maker, this leads us into divinity 5 and for its fubordinate, as it is defigned for alimental fuftenance to living creatures, and medicinal ufes toman, we are thereby conduced into zoography. Glanv. Scepf. Zoo'logy. n.f. [of ^uov and Aoj/©J.] A treatife concerning living creatures. ZooThyte. n.f [ C,uo(pvrov, of and (purov.] Certain vegetables or fubftances which partake of the nature both of vegetables and animals. Zoopho'rick Column, n.f [In architecture.] A ftatuary co¬ lumn, or a column which bears or fupports the figure of an animal. Did}. Zoo'phorus. n.f [£coo£po£o?.] A part between the archi¬ traves and cornice, fo called on account of the ornaments carved on it, among which were the figures of animals. Did}. Zoo'tomist. n.f. [of ^wo-ropa.] A difietor of the bodies of brute beafts. Zoo'tomy. n.f [£wto|u/c&, of £uov and Tiy.vu.'] DifFection of the bodies of beafts. FINIS. \$