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was divided into three portions, and shared among the three 
remaining branches of that house. 
ZERBST, a town in the interior of Germany, in the duchy 
of Anhalt-Dessau. It stands on the small river Nuthe; is 
surrounded with a mound 5 has a population of nearly 8000; 
and is the best town in the states of the house of Anhalt. The 
palace, where the prince resided, when this was the capital 
of Anhalt-Zerbst, and • where Catherine IT. of Russia was 
horn, is a large and stately building, outside of the walls. 
Brewing, as in other German towns, forms a main branch of 
industry; woollens are made in small quantities; and the or¬ 
namental manufactures (jewellery and silver-smith’s work), 
have decreased since the removal of the court. Here are a 
gymnasium and a free school; 65 miles west-south-west of 
Berlin. 
ZERETE, a settlement of New Granada, in the province 
of Carthagena. 
ZEREZUELA, a settlement of New Granada, in the pro¬ 
vince of Bogota; 9 miles south-east of Sante Fe. 
ZERKOU, a town of Prussian Poland ; 36 miles south¬ 
east of Posen. Population 800. 
ZERMAGNA, a river of Dalmatia, near the borders of 
Croatia. There is a small town of the same name near its 
mouth. 
ZERNOWITZ, or Zarnotz, a small town of Hungary, 
on the river Gran ; 8 miles west of Schemnitz. Population 
4000. 
ZERUMA, a village of New Granada, in the province of 
Guayaquil, celebrated for having some rich gold veins in its 
neighbourhood, which have failed, owing to the want of 
proper exertion being made to clear them. This town or 
village was one of the first which was built in the province, 
and contains 5000 or 6000 inhabitants. 
- ZEST, s. The peel of an orange squeezed into wine.—A 
relish; a taste added. 
Almighty Vanity! to thee they owe 
Their zest of pleasure, and their halm of woe. Young. 
To ZEST, v. a. To heighten by an additional relish. 
ZETEGANTI, a small river of South America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Darien, which runs north, until it falls into the gulf 
of San Miguel. 
ZETE'TICK, adj. [from Proceeding by enquiry. 
ZETTIN, a small town of Croatia, aud the chief place of 
a small district, ceded to Austria by Turkey, in 1791 ; 30 
miles west-by-north of Novi. 
ZEVACO, or Zesaca, a small island in the Pacific ocean, 
near the coast of Veragua. Lat. 8 . N. long. 81. 46. W. 
ZEVENHU1ZEN, a village of the Netherlands, in the 
province of Utrecht, with 1400 inhabitants; 5 miles north of 
Amersfort. 
ZEU'GMA, s. [from '^evyfjia.'] A figure in Grammar, 
when a verb agreeing with divers nouns, or an adjective with 
divers substantives, is referred to one expressly, and to the 
other by supplement; as lust overcame shame, boldness fear, 
and madness reason. . 
ZEULEN, a town of Germany, in Bavarian Franconia, on 
the Rodach; 19 miles north-north-east of Bamberg. Popu¬ 
lation 800. 
ZEULENRODE, a town of the interior of Germany, and 
principality of Reuss; 1 ] miles west of Greitz. Population 
3600. 
ZEUS, a genus of fish, of the order of the thoracici; the 
characters of which are, that the head is compressed and de¬ 
clining ; the upper lip is arched by means of a transverse 
membrane; the tongue is awl-shaped; the branchiostegous 
membrane has seven perpendicular rays, the lowest placed 
transversely ; the dorsal fins, in most species, furnished with 
projecting filiform rays; and the body is compressed, broad, 
thin, and of a bright colour. The species enumerated by 
Gmelin and Shaw are the following: 
1 . Zeus vomer.—Silvery dory, with the second ray of the 
dorsal fin very long. Bloch. (See Vomer.) Its shape is 
rhomboidal, length six or eight, or more, inches, body thin, 
•without scales, tinged on the upper parts with a blueish cast. 
mouth with small teeth.—Native of the American seas, and 
sometimes seen in those of the north of Europe: eatable, but 
not much esteemed. 
2. Zeus gallus.—Silvery dony, with the tenth ray of the 
dorsal and second of the anal fin longer than the body. 
Shape and length, and body, like those of the former; back 
tinged with a greenish hue, head large, mouth wide.—Na¬ 
tive of the American and Indian seas, esculent: when first 
taken grunting, like the gurnards. The abacatuaja of Marc- 
grave. 
3. Zeus faber.—Gold-green, fuliginous dory, with a dusky 
central spot on each side of the body, or with a rounded tail, 
brown spot on the middle of the sides and two anal fins. 
Linnevus. This is the common dory (see Doree), which 
is a native of the Mediterranean, Northern, and Atlantic seas. 
Its head is large and long; length generally twelve or fif¬ 
teen inches, and weight ten or twelve pounds; mouth wide, 
lower jaw longer than the upper, teeth small and sharp, eyes 
large, body covered with small scales, and marked by a 
curved lateral line, which descending pretty suddenly from 
the gill-covers, passes on to the tail; back arched, and fur¬ 
nished with a row of strong, small prickles, continued along 
the curve of the abdomen ; two very strong and sharp spines 
at the base of the pectoral fins. The introduction of this 
fish, as excellent food, to the tables of the higher ranks, is of 
no remote date; Mr. Quin being considered as the founder 
of its peculiar reputation in the polite circles. This fish is 
of a very voracious nature, preying on smaller fishes and 
their spawn, as well as various kinds of sea-insects, the smaller 
shell-fish, &c. It emits a noise like that of the gurnards and 
seorpaenas, when first taken, by violently forcing out the air 
from its gill-covers. 
4. Zeus aper.—Reddish dory, with rough scales and even 
tail; a small species about three inches long, resembling the 
common dory in habit; snout protuberant, and turning up¬ 
wards ; no perceptible teeth; eyes large, with white irides; 
two dorsal fins, the anterior having nine strong and sharp 
spines, the first low and scarcely visible, the second four 
times longer, and the third very long and thick; the second 
dorsal fin consisting of twenty-three soft rays; the vent fin 
having twenty-six rays, the pectoral fins about fourteen, and 
the ventral six. This fish generally resides at the bottom, 
and is accidentally taken after great storms: it is not eatable, 
being small, coarse, and of an unpleasant odour.'—It is a na¬ 
tive of the Mediterranean. 
5. Zeus insidiator.—Silvery dory, with sides speckled with 
black, and narrow extensile mouth; shape rhomboidal; 
smaller than zeus ciliaris; colour bright-silvery, blueish- 
green above, and speckled with black points; body without 
scales; lower lip retractile, and mouth capable of forming a 
tubular snout, for ejaculating a drop of water against such 
insects as happen to alight on or fly about the aquatic plants 
near the shores of the waters it inhabits, and thus obtain its 
prey.-—A native of the rivers and fresh-waters of India. 
6. Zeus ciliaris.-—Silvery dory, with some of the rays in 
the dorsal and anal fin excessively long ; body rhomboidal, 
thin, without scales, and of a bright silver colour, with a 
blueish or greenish cast on the back, and small and sloping; 
lower jaw longer than the upper; teeth small and sharp; 
several of the last rays of the dorsal and anal fin extending 
farther than the tail itself, the long and flexible filaments of 
which count de Cepede imagines attract small fishes, which 
mistake them for worms, the dory himself lying concealed 
among sea-weeds, &c„ and waiting for its prey ■ the count 
also conceives that these may serve to sustain the fish by 
coiling round the stems of sea-plants, &c.—A native of the 
Indian seas, but not esteemed as food, being small and 
coarse. 
6. Zeus luna or opab.—Dory with somewhat lunated tail; 
the body being generally either red, green, or purple, with 
oval white spots. This is a superb species, and found, pro¬ 
bably wandering from the warmer regions, in the Mediter¬ 
ranean and northern seas, the largest species of the kind, 
being between four and five feet in length, in colour varying 
from a bright silvery-green ground to a bright gold colour. 
