the woody thick skin quartering the kernel of a walnut; prescribed by some physicians, when dried and taken with white wine, as a remedy against the gravel.

ZEST is also used for a chip of orange or lemon peel; such as is usually squeezed into ale, wine, &c. to give it a flavour; or the fine oil which spouts out of that peel on squeezing it.

ZUGMA, a figure in Grammar, whereby an adjective or verb which agrees with a nearer word, is also, by way of supplement, referred to another more remote.