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   Zealot
         n 1: a member of an ancient Jewish sect in Judea in the first
               century who fought to the death against the Romans and who
               killed or persecuted Jews who collaborated with the Romans
         2: a fervent and even militant proponent of something [syn:
            {partisan}, {zealot}, {drumbeater}] [ant: {nonpartisan},
            {nonpartizan}]

English Dictionary: zealot by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zeolite
n
  1. any of a family of glassy minerals analogous to feldspar containing hydrated aluminum silicates of calcium or sodium or potassium; formed in cavities in lava flows and in plutonic rocks
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
zloty
n
  1. the basic unit of money in Poland
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zealed \Zealed\, a.
      Full of zeal; characterized by zeal. [Obs.] [bd]Zealed
      religion.[b8] --Beau. & Fl.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zealot \Zeal"ot\, n. [F. z[82]lote, L. zelotes, Gr. [?]. See
      {Zeal}.]
      One who is zealous; one who engages warmly in any cause, and
      pursues his object with earnestness and ardor; especially,
      one who is overzealous, or carried away by his zeal; one
      absorbed in devotion to anything; an enthusiast; a fanatical
      partisan.
  
               Zealots for the one [tradition] were in hostile array
               against zealots for the other.               --Sir J.
                                                                              Stephen.
  
               In Ayrshire, Clydesdale, Nithisdale, Annandale, every
               parish was visited by these turbulent zealots.
                                                                              --Macaulay.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Zeolite \Ze"o*lite\, n. [Gr. [?] to boil + -lite: cf. F.
      z[82]olithe.] (Min.)
      A term now used to designate any one of a family of minerals,
      hydrous silicates of alumina, with lime, soda, potash, or
      rarely baryta. Here are included natrolite, stilbite,
      analcime, chabazite, thomsonite, heulandite, and others.
      These species occur of secondary origin in the cavities of
      amygdaloid, basalt, and lava, also, less frequently, in
      granite and gneiss. So called because many of these species
      intumesce before the blowpipe.
  
      {Needle zeolite}, needlestone; natrolite.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Zellwood, FL
      Zip code(s): 32798

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Zilthai
      shadow (i.e., protection) of Jehovah. (1.) A Benjamite (1 Chr.
      8:20). (2.) One of the captains of the tribe of Manasseh who
      joined David at Ziklag (1 Chr. 12:20).
     

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   Zoheleth
      the serpent-stone, a rocky plateau near the centre of the
      village of Siloam, and near the fountain of En-rogel, to which
      the women of the village resort for water (1 Kings 1:5-9). Here
      Adonijah (q.v.) feasted all the royal princess except Solomon
      and the men who took part with him in his effort to succeed to
      the throne. While they were assembled here Solomon was
      proclaimed king, through the intervention of Nathan. On hearing
      this, adonijah fled and took refuge in the sanctuary (1 Kings
      1:49-53). He was afterwards pardoned.
     
         Zoheleth projects into or slightly over-hangs the Kidron
      valley. It is now called ez-Zehwell or Zahweileh.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Zilthai, my shadow; my talk
  

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
   Zoheleth, that creeps, slides, or draws
  
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