CHAMBERS'S INFORMATION FOR THE PEOPLE. 



Wolves, family Canidae, in Zoology, 186. 

 Woodcock, family Scolopacidae, in Zoology, 170. 

 Woodpecker, family Scansores, in Zoology, 172. 

 Woods and forests, in Agriculture, 541. 

 Woody or ligneous tissue of vegetables, 70. 

 Wool, various sorts, washing and shearing, 649 ; 



woollen manufactures, 378-380. 

 Woollen clothing, in respect of health, 785. 

 Work, accumulated in moving bodies, 222 ; unit 



of, 222. 



Worm-powder, 771, 784. 

 Worms (Annulosa), in Zoology, 140. 

 Worms, intestinal, in Zoology, 140 ; in Medicine, 



771. 

 Worsted, origin of the term, 792 ; in Manufactures, 



378. 

 Wounds, how to dress, in Surgery, 781. 



Xylophagi (Gr. xylon, wood, and phagein, to eat), 

 a family of wood-eating coleopterous insects, 

 149- 



Yachts, 452. 



Yams, Chinese potato, 108. 



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Year, the solar, sidereal, and anomalistic, denned, 



10, 291. 



Yeast, in fermentation, 351 ; in Botany, 112. 

 Yew, varieties, growth, and culture of, 597. 

 Yttrium, the metallic base of the earth yttria, 



315. 



Zaffre, an impure oxide of cobalt, 415. 



Zebra (Equidce), 180. 



Zenith (Arabic), an astronomical term for that point 



of the heavens right over the head of the observer; 



the opposite of nadir, 2. 

 Zero, Italian for cipher or o, that point on a scale 



which is marked o ; and where the reckoning 



begins. See Thermometer, 205. 

 Zinc, in Chemistry, 307, 329 ; in Metallurgy, 412. 

 Zirconium, the metallic base of the earth zirconia, 



3i5- 



Zodiac, the, the twelve signs of, 8. 



Zones, in Physical Geography, 52. 



ZOOLOGY (Gr. zoon t living being, and logos, dis- 

 course), as a branch of natural history, 129-192. 



Zoophyte (Gr. zoon, and phyton, a shoot or plant), 

 in Zoology, 20, 1 36. 



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