Zimbi, zim′bi, n. a money-cowry. [East Ind.]
Ziment-water, zi-ment′-wa′tėr, n. water found in copper-mines.
Zimocca, zi-mok′a, n. a fine quality of bath-sponge.
Zinc, zingk, n. a bluish-white metal, breaking with a crystalline fracture—when chemically pure it is malleable and ductile at ordinary temperature, but ordinary zinc is so only at temperatures above 212° Fahr.—v.t. to cover with zinc.—ns. Zinc′-am′yl, a colourless transparent liquid, composed of zinc and amyl; Zinc′-blende, sphalerite, native sulphide of zinc; Zinc′-bloom, hydrozincite; Zinc-col′ic, a colic caused by the slow poison of zinc-oxide; Zinc′-ē′thyl, a colourless volatile liquid, composed of zinc and the radical ethyl.—adjs. Zincif′erous, Zinkif′erous, containing or producing zinc.—ns. Zinc′ite, a native oxide of zinc, brittle, translucent, deep red; Zinckificā′tion, Zinkificā′tion, the process of coating or impregnating an object with zinc.—vs.t. Zinck′ify, Zink′ify, to cover or impregnate with zinc.—adjs. Zinck′y, Zink′y, pertaining to zinc: looking like zinc.—n. Zinc′-meth′yl, a mobile stinking liquid, spontaneously inflammable, resembling zinc-ethyl.—adj. Zinc′oid, like zinc.—ns. Zincol′ysis, a mode of decomposition caused by an electric current; Zinc′olyte, a body decomposable by electricity; Zinc′otype, a zincograph.—adj. Zinc′ous, pertaining to zinc.—ns. Zinc′-white, zinc oxide used as a pigment; Zinc′-work′er. [Ger. zink, prob. allied to zinn, tin.]
Zincali, zin′ka-li, n. a name in Spain for the Gipsies, akin to Zingaro (q.v.).
Zinckenite, zing′ken-īt, n. a grayish mineral consisting of the sulphides of antimony and lead. [Named from the German metallurgist Zincken (1790-1862).]
Zinco, zing′kō, n. a familiar abbreviation for zincograph.—v.i. to produce a plate for printing by the zincographic process.
Zincode, zing′kōd, n. the negative pole of a voltaic battery: the anode of an electrolytic cell.
Zincography, zing-kog′ra-fi, n. a process of etching on zinc (or copper) by which black and white pictures of all kinds can be reproduced as surface-blocks for printing by the ordinary letterpress process—in the etching the whites, and not the black lines as in the ordinary etching, are eaten away.—ns. Zinc′ograph, a plate or picture produced by zincography; Zincog′rapher, one who makes zincographic plates.—adjs. Zincograph′ic, -al. [Zinc, Gr. graphein, to write.]
Zingaro, zing′ga-rō, n. a name in Italy for the Gipsies;—pl. Zing′ari, Zing′ane.—Also Zing′ano. [Cf. the Ger. Zigeuner, Czech Cingán or Cigán, Magyar Cigány.]