ZINZIBER, Ginger, a sort of Spice.

ZODIACK, one of the grea­test Circles in the Heavens about which the Sun goes once every Year, and the Moon once a Month.

ZOILUS, an envious Person.

ZONE, a Belt or Girdle.

ZOOGRAPHY, a Description of the Nature and Property of any kind of Animals, as Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Serpents, Insects, &c.

ZOOGRAPHER, a Describer or Painter of Living Creatures.

ZOOLOGY, a Treatise concern­ing Living Creatures.

ZOOTOMY, an Artificial Dis­section of the Bodies of brute Beasts or any other Creatures except Men

ZOROASTER the first In­ventor of Magick, whom Pliny takes to be much more ancient than Moses.

ZUZ, a Hebrew Coin in value Seven-pence Half-penny English.