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growing near Samara on the Volga Tis.akind of Me- lon fhaped like a Lamb, all the Parts whereof it has, and grows to the Earth, by a Stern which ferves it for a Navel- ilring. As it grows, it changes Place, as much as its Stem will allow of; and it confumes and dties up all the Grafs where it grows. When ripe, the Stem withers, and the Body or Fruit becomes cover'd with a downy Skin, which maybe I drefs'd and ufed as a Fur.

! He affirms to have feen of this Skin, and that it was c.vi-r'd with a foft curled Wool like that ofa young Lamb;

cctdiger adds, that this Fruit lives, and grows, till fuch taie as it wants Grafs — Infome Accounts it is call'd Agnus ' Scythian, ar.d Sorametz.

ZOOTOMY, the Art or Aft of Differing Animals or living Creatures. See Dissection.

Zootomy- amounts to the fame with Anatomy. See Anatomy.

The Word is compounded of £«w, Animal, and -nfivn, feco, I cut.

Z.OPATA, or Safata, a kind of Feaft or Ceremony held in Italy, in the Courts of certain Princes, on St. Ni- cholas's Day, wherein People hide Prefents in the Shoes or Slippers of thofe they would do honour to, in fuch manner as may furprize 'em the Morrow when they come to drefs.

It is done in Imitation of the Practice of St. Nicholas,who ufed in the Night-time to throw Purfes of Money in at Windows, to marry poor Maids withal.

F. Menefirier has defcribed thefe Sapates, their Origin, and different Ufages, inhisTreatife des Ballets Ancicns i$ Moderns.

The Wotd Zapata is originally Sfanifi, and fignifies Shoe.

ZOPISSA, a kind of Mixture of Pitch and Tar; fcra- ped off Ships that have been a long time at Sea. See Pitch and Tar.

This Matter by being gradually penetrated by the Salt of the Sea, becomes partaker of its Qualities; and be- ing apply'd to the Body, externally, is found Refolutive and Deilccative.

The Word is form'd from %kir, bullire, to boil, and 'jUsti, Pitch ; q. d. hoiPd Titch-

ZUINGL1ANS, a Branch of antient Reformers, or Proteftants ; denominated from their Author Uldric or HuldricZiiinglius. See Reformation.

This eminent Divine was born at WHdehaufcn, in the County of Toggenionrg'm Switzerland,™ mSj- — After having finifhed his Studies in Theology, and received the Doctor's Cap at Safil, in 1505, he apply'd himfelf to preaching; and with good Succels.

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Soon after Luther had taken up Arms againft. Rome, ZuiiigliuS) being then Minifter of the chief Church in Zurich, fell in with him j preach'd openly againlt Indul- gences, then againft the Interceffion of the Saints, then again!! the Mafs, the Hierarchy, the "Vows, and Celibate of the Clergy, Abftinence from Fleih, £S?e.

As to the -Euchariit, interpreting hoc eft Corpus imum by hoc Jignificat Corpus meum, he maintain'd, that the Bread and Wine were only bare Significations, or Reprefentatione of the Body and Blood of Jcfus Chrift $ in which hediifer'd from Luther, who held a Confubltantiation. See Lu- theran, Eucharist, Consubstantiation, &c.

In a Conference held with the Deputies of the Eifhopof Conftans, in 1523, he procured molt of the external Ce- remonies of Religion to be abolifhed— — — As to Matters of Grace, Ztthiglius feem'd inclined to ( PelagianifM$ giving all to Free-will, confider'd as acting by the mere ftrength of Nature ; in which he differ'd from Calvin. SeeCALVi- nists, Grace, Will, Pelagian, &c.

ZYGOMA, in Anatomy, a Bone, by fome call'd Qs Ju- gale. See Jugale.

The Zygoma is no fingle Bone, but an Union or Aflem- blage of two Proceffes or Eminences of Bones; the one from the Os temporis, the other from the Os mala. See Bone.

Thefe two Eminences, or Apofhyjes, are joined together by , a Suture thence cvW&Zygomaticus. See Zygomaticus.

The Word is form'd from &vywiutt 9 J join 7 Co that Zygoma, properly fpeaking, is the Juncture of thofe two Bones.

ZYGOMATICUS, an Epithet given to the Suture that binds the two Procefles of the Zygoma together. See Zy- goma and Suture.

Zvgomaticus., in Anatomy, a Mufcle that has its Ori- gin in the Trocejfus Jugalis, or Zygoma ; and palTing ob- liquely, is infer ted near the Angle of the Lips It helps

to draw the Lips obliquely upwards. See Lips.

ZYMOSIMETER, an Instrument propoied by Swam- merdam, in his Book He Refpiratione,viher&whh to meafure the degree of Fermentation occafion'd by the Mixture of dif- ferent Matters 5 and theDegree of Heat which thofe Matters ' acquire in fermenting 5 as alfo the Heat or Temperament of the Blood of Animals. See Fermentation,Heat, ^c The Word is form'd from ^vy.om, Fermentation, and MT&v t Meafure.

ZYTHUM, or Zithum, a fort of Malt-Liquor, in ufe among the antient Germans. See M Air-Liquor.

Matthiolits reprefents the antient Zythitm and Curmi as the fame with our Beer and Ale. See Beer and Ale.

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