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The golden sun salutes the morn, 
And having gilt the ocean with his beams. 
Gallops the zodiack in his glist’ring coach. Shakspeare. 
It is used by Milton for a girdle. 
By his side, 
As in a glistering zodiack, hung the sword 
Satan’s dire dread; and in his hand the spear. Milton. 
ZODIN, a small town of Russian Lithuania; 30 miles 
east-north-east of Minsk. 
ZOETERWOUDE, a village of the Netherlands; 3 miles 
south of Leyden. Population 2000. 
ZOFFANY (John), was born at Frankfort, about the year 
1735. He came to England, as a painter of small portraits, 
when he was about 30 years of age. After passing some 
time with very little encouragement, he at length was fortu¬ 
nate enough to attract public attention by a portrait of the 
earl of Barrymore, and thenceforward enjoyed considerable 
favour and encouragement. The most considerable of his 
productions were portraits of the most celebrated dramatic 
performers in their favourite characters; as Garrick, in Abel 
Drugger, Sir John Brute, and Lord Chalkstone, &c.; Foote, 
in Major Sturgeon; and Jacob, as Jacob Gallop; Foote 
and Weston, as Dr. Last and the President, in the Devil on 
Two Sticks; Parsons, Moody, Bransby, Aicken, and many 
others, whose likenesses he preserved most admirably, with 
all the variety of expression required for the characters they 
personified. One picture he painted of the members of the 
Royal Academy, in the hall of the Academy devoted to the 
study of the living figure, round which they here assembled, 
and it received universal applause. 
He had the honour to be employed by his Majesty, and 
painted portraits of the royal family; and he was engaged 
by the queen to paint for her a view of the Tribune of the 
Gallery at Florence. He was somewhat of a humourist, and 
* it is said of him that, whilst he was engaged painting in the 
Florentine Gallery, the emperor of Germany visited the grand 
duke, and coming up to Zoffany in the Gallery, was much 
pleased with his performance, and asked him his name; and 
on hearing it, inquired what countryman he was, when he 
answered, an Englishman. Why, said the emperor, your 
name is German. True, returned the painter, I was born in 
Germany—that was accidental: I call that my country where 
I have been protected. 
Soon after his return from Italy he went to the East Indies, 
where he was much employed, and acquired a considerable 
fortune; but it disappeared upon his return home, and was 
only restored by a second adventure to the same hot-bed of 
wealth and disease. He again returned to England, but 
with diminished powers; yet he still continued to paint, and, 
among other works, produced an elaborate picture of the 
sacking of the wine-vaults at the Tuilleries, in 1792; a dis¬ 
gusting display of the atrocities of that eventful period. He 
lived to a very advanced age, but was reduced exceedingly 
in intellectual powers for some years before his decease, 
which happened in 1808. He was a member of the Royal 
Academy. 
ZOLKIEV, a circle of Austrian Galicia, lying between the 
kingdom of Poland and the circle of Lemberg. Its area is 
1800 square miles; its population nearly 200,000. 
ZOLKIEW, a town of Austrian Poland; 10 miles north 
of Lemberg. It has a high-school, and a military hospital. 
Population 2200. 
ZOLLIKON, a large village of Switzerland, on the east 
side of the lake of Zurich. 
ZOLODONOSKA, a small town of Russia, government 
of Pultawa, on the Dnieper. 
ZOMBOR, a town of Hungary, in the palatinate of Bacs, 
or Batsch, a province extending, in an oblong form, between 
the Theyss on the one side, and the Danube on the other. 
This place is nothing more than an assemblage of cottages, 
with few public buildings, except a Catholic and a Greek 
church, along with the government offices requisite for the 
collection of taxes, and other public business. Cattle, corn, 
and country products, form the chief objects of traffic at 
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Zombor. Lat. 46. 45. 45. N. long. 18. 7. 45. E. Popula¬ 
tion 15,000.—There is another place of the name Zombor in 
the west of Hungary, near Tokay. 
ZOMETLA, a settlement of Mexico, near the city of 
Mexico, containing 91 Indian families. 
ZON, a town of the Netherlands, in North Brabant, with 
11,000 inhabitants. 
ZONE, s. Gr.; zona, Lat.] A girdle. 
The middle part 
Girt, like a starry zone, his waist, and round 
Skirted his loins, and thighs, with downy gold, 
And colours dipp’d in heav’n. Milton. 
A division of the earth.—The whole surface of the earth is 
divided into five zones; the first is contained between the 
two tropicks, and is called the torrid zone. There are two 
temperate zones, and two frigid zones. The northern tem¬ 
perate zone is terminated by the tropick of Cancer and the 
arctick polar circle; the southern temperate zone is contained 
between the tropick of Capricorn and the antarclick polar 
circle; the frigid zones are circumscribed by the polar cir¬ 
cles, and the poles are in their centres. 
And as five zones th’ etherial regions bind, 
Five correspondent are to earth assigu’d: 
The sun, with rays directly darting down, 
Fires all beneath, and fries the middle zone. Dry den. 
Circuit; circumference. 
Scarce the sun 
Hath finish’d half his journey, and scarce begins 
His other half in the great zone of heaven. Milton. 
ZO'NED; adj. Wearing a zone. 
Gay youths advance. 
And fair -zon'd damsels form the sprightly dance. Pope. 
ZONITIS, in Entomology, a genus of the coleoptera order 
of insects, the characters of which are, that the antennae are 
setaceous; the palpi four and filiform, and shorter than the 
whole jaw; and the lip emarginated. There are two species. 
1. Zonitis chrysomelana. Yellow, the wing-sheaths hav¬ 
ing a point in the middle, and the apex black.—Found in 
Egypt and the East. 
2. Zonitis flava. Reddish, with wing-sheaths yellow, and 
black at the apex. 
ZONNAR, a kind of belt, or girdle, of black leather, 
which the Christians and Jews of the Levant, particularly 
those of Asia and the territories of the grand seignior, are 
obliged to wear, to distinguish themselves from the Maho¬ 
metans. 
Hence, as most of the Christians of Syria, Mesopotamia, 
&c. are either Nestorians or Jacobites, those sectaries are often 
called Christians of the girdle. 
ZONS, or Sons, a town of the Prussian states, province 
of Cleves and Berg; 8 miles south-south-east of Dusseldorf. 
Population, 1000. 
ZONZERON, a settlement of Brazil, in the province of 
Sergippe. 
ZOO'GRAPHER, s. and ygaepu, Gr.] One who 
describes the nature, properties, and forms of animals.—One 
kind of locust stands not prone, or a little inclining upward; 
but in a large erectness, elevating the two fore legs, and sus¬ 
taining itself in the middle by the other four: by zoogra- 
phers called the prophet, and praying locust. Brown. 
ZOO'GRAPHY, s. [of ^ay and yyatpu, Gr.] A descrip¬ 
tion of the forms, natures, and properties of animals.—If we 
contemplate the end, its principal final cause being the glory 
of its Maker, this leads us into divinity; and for its subordi¬ 
nate, as it is designed for alimental sustenance to living crea¬ 
tures, and medicinal uses to man, we are thereby conducted 
into zoography. Glanville. 
ZOO'LOGICAL, adj. [from zoology.] Describing living 
creatures. 
ZOO'LOGIST, s. [from zoology.] One who treats of 
living creatures.—Nor have I seen any thing that interested 
me as a zoologist, except an otter, Johnson. 
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