Ziggurat
"Great Ziggurat of Xijoser" The Great Ziggurat of Xijoser is the largest of the Ziggurats of Shigek , raised by the Old Dynasty Shigek God-King Xijoser c. 670.

Ziggurats
"Ziggurats of Shigek" The Ziggurats of Shigek are immense stepped pyramids found to the north of the River Sempis Delta and raised by the ancient God-Kings of Shigek to serve as their mortuary tombs.

Significant Ziggurats

- Great Ziggurat of Xijoser
- Palpothis

Ziggurats of Shigek
The Ziggurats of Shigek are immense stepped pyramids found to the north of the River Sempis Delta and raised by the ancient God-Kings of Shigek to serve as their mortuary tombs.

Significant Ziggurats

- Great Ziggurat of Xijoser
- Palpothis

Zikas
" Zikas " is a term used to refer to the multiple women taken as concubines by Anasûrimbor Kellhus . This name derives from the small libation bowls used on the Day of Ascension . There were at least seventeen Zikas, ten of which, according to Esmenet , died in childbirth . A total of thirteen children resulting from these unions were born alive, but possessing severe deformities . These were all drowned in wine according to Nansur custom . Esmenet recalls that many people were murdered to keep this secret (it's unknown if this included the surviving Zikas).

Zioz
Zioz is a Ciphrang , a divine agency (demon) of the Outside , controlled by the Scarlet Spires . Zioz is strong-willed and therefore very dangerous to summon. Hanamanu Eleäzaras regards the demon as too risky to use.

Appearance

Zioz is an incorporeal being in the normal state, but takes a material form with “a face like summer sunlight and limbs barked in fire.”

The Thousandfold Thought

In preparation for the attack on Shimeh , Heramari Iyokus summons Zioz and sends it to attack the Cishaurim . This forces the Cishaurim to redistribute their Chorae to guard against further incursions by Ciphrang, reducing the number that will be available for use against the Scarlet Spires during the main assault.

Zioz

Race: Ciphrang
Occupation: Potent
Books: The Thousandfold Thought

Zioz

Race: Ciphrang
Occupation: Potent
Books: The Thousandfold Thought

Zirkirta
"Battle of Zirkirta" The Battle of Zirkirta was a major battle fought between the Kianene host of Hasjinnet ab Skauras and the Scylvendi under Yursut urs Muknai on the Jiünati Steppe in 4103. Though their cavalry proved no match for the Scylvendi, and Hasjinnet himself was slain, the Kianene were quick in recovering, and most of the ill-fated expedition survived .

zibet
-alt. of zibeth

zibeth
-a carnivorous mammal (viverra zibetha) closely allied to the civet, from which it differs in having the spots on the body less distinct, the throat whiter, and the black rings on the tail more numerous.

ziega
-curd produced from milk by adding acetic acid, after rennet has ceased to cause coagulation.

zietrisikite
-a mineral wax, vert similar to ozocerite. it is found at zietrisika, moldavia, whence its name.

zif
-the second month of the jewish ecclesiastical year, corresponding to our may.

zigger
-alt. of zighyr

zighyr
-same as sicker.

zigzag
-something that has short turns or angles.
-a molding running in a zigzag line; a chevron, or series of chevrons. see illust. of chevron, 3.
-see boyau.
-having short, sharp turns; running this way and that in an onward course.
-to form with short turns.
-to move in a zigzag manner; also, to have a zigzag shape.

zigzagged
-of zigzag

zigzaggery
-the quality or state of being zigzag; crookedness.

zigzagging
-of zigzag

zigzaggy
-having sharp turns.

zilla
-a low, thorny, suffrutescent, crucifeous plant (zilla myagroides) found in the deserts of egypt. its leaves are boiled in water, and eaten, by the arabs.

zillah
-a district or local division, as of a province.

zimb
-a large, venomous, two
-winged fly, native of abyssinia. it is allied to the tsetse fly, and, like the latter, is destructive to cattle.

ziment
-water
-a kind of water found in copper mines; water impregnated with copper.

zinc
-an abundant element of the magnesium
-cadmium group, extracted principally from the minerals zinc blende, smithsonite, calamine, and franklinite, as an easily fusible bluish white metal, which is malleable, especially when heated. it is not easily oxidized in moist air, and hence is used for sheeting, coating galvanized iron, etc. it is used in making brass, britannia, and other alloys, and is also largely consumed in electric batteries. symbol zn. atomic weight 64.9.
-to coat with zinc; to galvanize.

zincane
-zinc chloride.

zinced
-of zinc

zincic
-pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zinc; zincous.

zincide
-a binary compound of zinc.

zinciferous
-containing or affording zinc.

zincification
-the act or process of applying zinc; the condition of being zincified, or covered with zinc; galvanization.

zincify
-to coat or impregnate with zinc.

zincing
-of zinc
-the act or process of applying zinc; galvanization.

zincite
-native zinc oxide; a brittle, translucent mineral, of an orange
-red color;
-- called also red zinc ore, and red oxide of zinc.

zincked
-of zinc

zincking
-of zinc
-alt. of zincing

zincky
-pertaining to zinc, or having its appearance.

zinco
-
-a combining form from zinc; in chemistry, designating zinc as an element of certain double compounds. also used adjectively.

zinco
-polar
-electrically polarized like the surface of the zinc presented to the acid in a battery, which has zincous affinity.

zincode
-the positive electrode of an electrolytic cell; anode.

zincographer
-an engraver on zinc.

zincography
-the art or process of engraving or etching on zinc, in which the design is left in relief in the style of a wood cut, the rest of the ground being eaten away by acid.

zincoid
-pertaining to, or resembling, zinc;
-- said of the electricity of the zincous plate in connection with a copper plate in a voltaic circle; also, designating the positive pole.

zincongraphic
-alt. of zincongraphical

zincongraphical
-of or pertaining to zincography; as, zincographic processes.

zincous
-of, pertaining to, or containing, zinc; zincic; as, zincous salts.
-hence, formerly, basic, basylous, as opposed to chlorous.
-of or pertaining to the positive pole of a galvanic battery; electro
-positive.

zingari
-of zingaro

zingaro
-a gypsy.

zingel
-a small, edible, freshwater european perch (aspro zingel), having a round, elongated body and prominent snout.

zingiberaceous
-of or pertaining to ginger, or to a tribe (zingibereae) of endogenous plants of the order scitamineae. see scitamineous.

zink
-see zinc.

zinkenite
-a steel
-gray metallic mineral, a sulphide of antimony and lead.

zinky
-see zincky.

zinnia
-any plant of the composite genus zinnia, mexican herbs with opposite leaves and large gay
-colored blossoms. zinnia elegans is the commonest species in cultivation.

zinnwaldite
-a kind of mica containing lithium, often associated with tin ore.

zinsang
-the delundung.

zinziberaceous
-same as zingiberaceous.

zion
-a hill in jerusalem, which, after the capture of that city by the israelites, became the royal residence of david and his successors.
-hence, the theocracy, or church of god.
-the heavenly jerusalem; heaven.

ziphioid
-see xiphioid.

zirco
-
-a combining form (also used adjectively) designating zirconium as an element of certain double compounds; zircono
-; as in zircofluoric acid, sodium zircofluoride.

zircofluoride
-a double fluoride of zirconium and hydrogen, or some other positive element or radical; as, zircofluoride of sodium.

zircon
-a mineral occurring in tetragonal crystals, usually of a brown or gray color. it consists of silica and zirconia. a red variety, used as a gem, is called hyacinth. colorless, pale
-yellow or smoky
-brown varieties from ceylon are called jargon.

zircona
-zirconia.

zirconate
-a salt of zirconic acid.

zirconia
-the oxide of zirconium, obtained as a white powder, and possessing both acid and basic properties. on account of its infusibility, and brilliant luminosity when incandescent, it is used as an ingredient of sticks for the drummomd light.

zirconic
-pertaining to, containing, or resembling, zirconium; as, zirconic oxide; zirconic compounds.

zirconium
-a rare element of the carbon
-silicon group, intermediate between the metals and nonmetals, obtained from the mineral zircon as a dark sooty powder, or as a gray metallic crystalline substance. symbol zr. atomic weight, 90.4.

zircono
-see zirco
-.

zirconoid
-a double eight
-sided pyramid, a form common with tetragonal crystals;
-- so called because this form often occurs in crystals of zircon.

zither
-an instrument of music used in austria and germany. it has from thirty to forty wires strung across a shallow sounding
-board, which lies horizontally on a table before the performer, who uses both hands in playing on it. [not to be confounded with the old lute
-shaped cittern, or cithern.]

zittern
-see cittern.

zizania
-a genus of grasses including indian rice. see indian rice, under rice.

zizel
-the suslik.