Xystarch :: Xystarch (n.) An office/ having the superintendence of the xyst.

Yacht :: Yacht (n.) A light and elegantly furnished vessel, used either for private parties of pleasure, or as a vessel of state to convey distinguished persons from one place to another; a seagoing vessel used only for pleasure trips, racing, etc..

Yacht :: Yacht (v. i.) To manage a yacht; to voyage in a yacht.

Yachter :: Yachter (n.) One engaged in sailing a jacht.

Yachting :: Yachting (n.) Sailing for pleasure in a yacht.

Yachtman :: Yachtman (n.) See Yachtsman.

Yachtsman :: Yachtsman (n.) One who owns or sails a yacht; a yachter.

Yachtsmen :: Yachtsmen (pl. ) of Yachtsma.

Yliche :: Yliche (a. & adv.) Alt. of Ylik.

Zachun :: Zachun (n.) An oil pressed by the Arabs from the fruit of a small thorny tree (Balanites Aegyptiaca), and sold to piligrims for a healing ointment..

Zarnich :: Zarnich (n.) Native sulphide of arsenic, including sandarach, or realgar, and orpiment..

Zauschneria :: Zauschneria (n.) A genus of flowering plants. Zauschneria Californica is a suffrutescent perennial, with showy red flowers much resembling those of the garden fuchsia..

Zechin :: Zechin (n.) See Sequin.

Zechstein :: Zechstein (n.) The upper division of the Permian (Dyas) of Europe. The prevailing rock is a magnesian limestone.

Zeugobranchiata :: Zeugobranchiata (n. pl.) Same as Zygobranchia.

Zoochemical :: Zoochemical (a.) Pertaining to zoochemistry.

Zoochemistry :: Zoochemistry (n.) Animal chemistry; particularly, the description of the chemical compounds entering into the composition of the animal body, in distinction from biochemistry..

Zoochemy :: Zoochemy (n.) Animal chemistry; zoochemistry.

Zoochlorella :: Zoochlorella (n.) One of the small green granulelike bodies found in the interior of certain stentors, hydras, and other invertebrates..

Zoopsychology :: Zoopsychology (n.) Animal psychology.

Zoutch :: Zoutch (v. t.) To stew, as flounders, eels, etc., with just enough or liquid to cover them..

Zuche :: Zuche (n.) A stump of a tree.

Zuchetto :: Zuchetto (n.) A skullcap covering the tonsure, worn under the berretta. The pope's is white; a cardinal's red; a bishop's purple; a priest's black..

Zygobranchia :: Zygobranchia (n. pl.) A division of marine gastropods in which the gills are developed on both sides of the body and the renal organs are also paired. The abalone (Haliotis) and the keyhole limpet (Fissurella) are examples.

Zygobranchiate :: Zygobranchiate (a.) Of or pertaining to the Zygobranchia.

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