Zekam

See Ceram.

Zelle

See Celle.

Zemplen, Or Zemplin

Zemplen, Or Zemplin, a N county of Hungary, in the Cis-Tibiscan circle, bordering on the counties of Ung, Szabolcs, Borsod, Abauj, and Saros, and on Galicia, from which it is divided by the Carpathians; area, 2,392 sq. m.; pop. in 1870, 292,771, chiefly Slovaks and Magyars. The Theiss forms most of the S. frontier, and the Hernad part of the S. W. The northern part of the county is mountainous and little productive; the southern is very fertile. The S. W. portion includes the Hegyalja, a region partly mountainous and partly hilly, famous for the production of the Tokay wine; the best vineyards are in the vicinity of the towns of Tállya, Mad, and Tokay. Capital, Sátoralja-Ujhely.

Zend Language

See Zend-Avesta.

Zenick

See Sueioate.

Zenith (Arabic)

Zenith (Arabic), that point in the heavens which is precisely over the head of the observer. The point directly opposite under his feet is called the nadir.

Zenobius Membre

Zenobius Membre, a Franciscan missionary, born at Bapaume, France, in 1645, killed in Texas about 1687. He was the first novice in the Recollect province of St. Anthonv, and was sent to Canada in 1675. Three years later he accompanied La Salle's expedition to the west, remained at, Fort Crevecceur with Tonty, and aided him in mediating between the Iroquois and Illinois. He subsequentlvdescended the Mississippi with La Salle, and wrote a narrative which was published by his cousin, bather Christian Le Clercq, in his Etablisse-ment de lafoi. He returned to France in 1082, and became warden of a convent at Bapaume. Ho accompanied La Salle on his expedition to the mouth of the Mississippi, and was left by him in the fort in Texas, where with the rest he was massacred by the Indians. Membre was esteemed for his mildness and virtues His narrative was claimed by Hennepin, and is by some even at the present time supposed to have been written by La Salle.

Zeolite (Gr. To Boil)

Zeolite (Gr. To Boil), the name given to a family of minerals, which, though in some respects unlike, have the common characteristic of melting and intumescing in the flame of the blowpipe. They consist chiefly of silica, alumina, some alkali, and more or less water; the latter two account for their dissolution under heat. Most of them also gelatinize in acids, by separation in such state of the silica. As found, they fill cavities or form narrow seams in rocks, are implanted on their surface, or more rarely imbedded in them, but are never, like agates, disseminated throughout the rock. They all occur in amygdaloid, some of them in granite or gneiss. Among them are heulandite, laumonite, natrolite, stellite, analcime, sodalite, lapis lazuli, etc. (See Lapis Lazuli, and Laumonite).

Zephamah Swift Moore

Zephamah Swift Moore, an American clergyman, born in Palmer, Mass., Nov. 20, 1770, died June 30, 1823. He graduated at Dartmouth college in 1793, was principal of the Londonderry academy in 1793-'4, entered the ministry, and preached at Leicester from 1798 to 1811, when he was appointed professor of languages in Dartmouth college. He was chosen president of Williams college in 1815, but failing to procure the removal of the institution to the banks of the Connecticut, he resigned in 1821, and was chosen president of Amherst college.