Z E U 



Z E U 



I. Z. americanui. 

 (Z. arundinaceus, ramofus, minor, 

 fparfa tcrminali ; Browne Jam. 341 

 Zeugites ; Linn. Sp. PI- H^7 



of the males of two beardlefa ralves ; of the female of one branch.oftegou, membrane has fe.en perpendicular rays, ths 

 awn^ vdve Style divided. Seed oblong. Ipweft placed tranfverfely ; the dorfal fins, 111 moft fpec.es, 



Jamaica Yoke-grafs. Willd. n. I. 

 rufefcens ; pamcula 

 t. 4. f. 3. Apluda 

 ^^. PI. 1487. Amcen. Acad. v. 5. 

 (not"6), 412. Swartz Obf. 384.)-Native of Jamaica. 

 Found by Dr. Browne at Cold-fpnng, in the mountains of 

 New Liguanea, in a rich foil, and fhady fituat.on His 

 original fpecimens are in the Linnxan herbarium The r«»/ 

 is faid to be perennial. Stem two feet high, much branched, 

 afcending, round, jointed, polifhed, browmfh, leafy, rather 

 nender. Leava alternate, on flender ftalks, each with a 

 lone (heathing bafe, reclinate, or nearly pendulous, ovate, 

 acute, entire, fmooth, many-ribbed, from an inch to an 



furniflied with projefting filiform rays ; and the body is 

 comprefled, broad, thin, and of a bright colour. The 

 fpecies enumerated by Gmelin and Shaw are the following : 

 Vomer. Silvery dory, with the fecond ray of the dorfal 

 fin very long. Bloch. (See Vomer.) Its (hape is rhom- 

 boidal, length fix or eight, or more, inches, body thin, 

 without fcales, tinged on the upper parts with a blueifh call, 

 mouth with fmall teeth. Native of the American feas, and 

 fometimes feen in thofe of the north of Europe : eatable, 

 but not much eileemed. 



Gallus. Silvery dory, with the tenth ray of the dorfal 

 and fecond of the anal fin longer than the body. Shape 

 and length, and body, like thofe of the former ; back tinged 

 ch and a half long, and from halt an inch to an men with a greenilh hue, head large, mouth wide. Native of 

 broad Panicles terminal, from the (heaths of the upper- the American and Indian feas, efculent : when firft taken 

 moft leaves compound, fpreading, with fmooth flender grunting, like the gurnards. The abacatuaja of Marc- 

 branches. Glumej green, itriated, fmooth. The habit is gra_ye 



no lefs foreign to the genus j^pluJa than the generic 

 charafters. . ... 



ZEUGMA, Zsi-yiua, literally denoting a joining toge- 

 ther; from ^Ev>vua., I join, a figure in Grammar, whereby 

 an adieftive, or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is 

 alfo, by way of fupplement, referred to another more 



remote. . . , , 1 



Thus Terence, " Utinam aut hic furdus, aut hacc muta 

 fafta fit." So Virgil, " Hic illius arma, hic currus fuit." 



Faber. Gold-green, fuliginous dory, with a dufky 

 central fpot on each fide of the body, or with a rounded 

 tail, brown fpot on the middle of the fides and two anal 

 fins. Linnseus. This is the common dory (fee Doree), 

 which is a native of the Mediterranean, Northern, and At- 

 lantic feas. Its head is large and long ; length generally 

 twelve or fifteen inches, and weight ten or twelve pounds ; 

 mouth wide, lower jaw longer than the upper, teeth fmall 

 and fharp, eyes large, body covered with fmall fcales, and 



In which cafes, the words fa^a Jit agreeing primarily with marked by a curved lateral fine, which defcending pretty 

 h^c muta are alfo made to agree or extend to hic furdus : fuddenly from the gill-covers, paffes on to the tail ; back 



hac muta, area „ -1 • 1 • 



and the verb /ui/ is not only referred to hic currus, which it 

 properly refpefts, but farther to hic illius anna. 



Of this fpecies of eUipfis, which differs from the ellipfis 

 properly fo called, in that the word which is to be under- 

 ftood once or oftener, has been already mentioned, Meffieurs 

 De Port Royal enumerate three forts ; viz. when we repeat 

 the noun or verb in the fame manner it has been already ex- 

 prelTed ; or when the word expreffed cannot be repeated 

 without receiving fome alteration in gender, cafe, number, 

 or perfon ; or when, after a word which includes the whole, 

 a diftribution of the parts is made without repeating the 

 verb. Latin Gram. vol. ii. p. 183. 



The Latins, it may be here obferved, take a liberty in 

 conftruAions, which fome of the nicer critics among the 

 moderns, particularly the French, will not allow in the 

 modern tongues. 



Zeugma, {Roum-Kala,] in Jncient Geography, a town 

 of Afia, or a place on the right bank of the Euphrates, 

 S.E. of Samofata, and over-againft Apamea. 



ZEVICO, in Geography, a town of Spain, m the pro- 

 vince of Leon ; 10 miles S.E. of Palencia. 



ZEVIO, a town of Italy, in the Veronefe ; 10 miles 

 S.S.E. of Verona. 



ZEVKETI, a town of the principality of Gunel ; 25 

 miles S.E. of Puti. . 



ZEULEN, a town of Bavaria, in the bifliopric of Bam- 

 berg, on the Rotach; 21 miles N.N.E. of Bamberg. N. 

 lat. 50°iV- E.long. ii°ir.'. 



ZEULENRODA, a town of Saxony, in the county 

 of Reuffen, containing two churches and 350 houfes. Here 

 is a manufafture of ftuffs, and a confiderable one of ftock- 

 ings; lomilesW. of Greitz. N. lat. 50° 36'. E. long. 



11° 51'. 



ZEUS, in Ichthyology, a genus of filh, of the order of 

 the thoracici ; the charafters of which are, that the head is 

 compreffed and declining ; the upper lip is arched by means 

 of a tranfverfe membrane ; the tongue is awl-(haped ; the 



arched, and furnifhed with a row of flrong, fmall prickles, 

 continued along the curve of the abdomen ; two very ftrong 

 and (harp fpines at the bafe of the peftoral fins. The in- 

 troduftion of this fi(h, as excellent food, to the tables 

 of the higher ranks, is of no remote date ; Mr. Quin being 

 confidered as the founder of its peculiar reputation in the 

 pohte circles. This fifh is of a very voracious nature, prey- 

 ing on fmaller filhes and their fpawn, as well as various 

 kinds of fea-infefts, the fmaller (hell-fifli, &:c, It emits a 

 noife like that of the gurnards and fcorpasnas, when firft 

 taken, by violently forcing out the air from its gill-covers. 



Aper. Reddifh dory, with rough fcales and even tail ; 

 a fmall fpecies about three inches long, refembling the 

 common dory in habit ; fnout protuberant, and turning up- 

 wards ; no perceptible teeth ; eyes large, with white irides ; 

 two dorfal fins, the anterior having nine (Irong and (harp 

 fpine3, the firlt low and fcarcely vifible, the fecond four 

 times longer, and the third very long and thick ; the fecond 

 dorfal fin confifting of twenty -three foft rays ; the vent-fin 

 having twenty-fix rays, the peftoral fins about fourteen, 

 and the ventral fix. This fifh generally refides at the bot- 

 tom, and is accidentally taken after great ftorms : it is not 

 eatable, being fmall, coarfe, and of an unpleafant odour. 

 It is a native of the Mediterranean. 



Insidiator. Silvery dory, with fides fpeckled with 

 black, and narrow extenfile mouth ; (hape rhomboidal ; 

 fmaller than Z. ciliaris ; colour bright-filvery, blueifh-green 

 above, and fpeckled with black points ; body without 

 fcales ; lower lip retraftile, and mouth capable of forming 

 a tubular fnout, for ejaculating a drop of water againfl 

 fuch infefts as happen to alight on or fly about the aquatic 

 plants near the fhores of the waters it inhabits, and thus 

 obtain its prey. A native of the rivers and frefh-waters of 

 India. 



Ciliaris. Silvery dory, with fome of the rays in the 

 dorfal and anal fin cxcefTively long ; body rhomboidal, thin, 

 without fcales, and of a bright-filver colour, with a blueifh 



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