Zurf. See Zarf.
Zurlite, zurl′īt, n. a white or green Vesuvian mineral.
Zuz, zōōz, n. a coin or money of account in New Testament times.
Zwanziger, tswan′tsi-gėr, n. an old Austrian silver coin, equivalent to twenty kreutzers. [Ger.,—zwanzig, twenty.]
Zwieback, zvī′bak, n. biscuit rusk, or a sweet spiced bread toasted. [Ger.]
Zwinglian, zwing′- or tswing′gli-an, adj. pertaining to the Swiss reformer Huldreich Zwingli (1484-1531), or his doctrines, esp. his divergence from Luther in the doctrine of the Eucharist. Zwingli rejected every form of local or corporeal presence, whether by transubstantiation, impanation, or consubstantiation, assailing every form, however subtle, of the old Capernaitic (John vi. 51-53, 59) conception of a carnal presence and carnal appropriation.—n. a follower of Zwingli.
Zygadite, zig′a-dīt, n. a variety of albite found in thin twin crystals at Andreasberg, in the Harz Mountains. [Gr. zygadēn, jointly—zygon, a yoke.]
Zygæna, zī-jē′na, n. a genus of moths, typical of the family Zygænidæ: a genus of sharks, the hammer-heads, now Sphyrna.—adjs. Zygæ′nid, Zygæ′nine, Zygæ′noid. [Gr. zygaina, a shark.]
Zygal, zī′gal, n. pertaining to a zygon, formed like a letter
