Re: Last word in the dictionary

"t. alexander mcleay NOMAIL" wrote:
>
> > Shorter OED (3d ed. 1944, reprint w/corrections 1965):  zymurgy - the
> > art or practice of fermentation.  (You surely have this already)
>
> I can beat you on that one---
> zzz /z@z/ n. Colloq. a sleep. [from the convention used, esp. by
> cartoonists, to represent sleep or the sound of snoring]
>
> That's from the first ed. of the Macquarie Australian Dictionary (I
> think. i've lost the cover and first few pages).
OK, I've got:

zwoerd, [zvort], n., bacon-rind (from Hugo's Language Books Dutch dictionary)

zuppo, adj., soaked (with) (from Avallardi Italian-English dictionary)

zzt., abr. for zurzeit (Harper-Collins German-English dictionary, the
last real entry is Zyste, nf., cyst)

zothecula, -ae, nf., dim. of zotheca, a small room in which to rest
during the day (from Chambers-Murray Latin-English Dictionary)

ó_ps, he_, gen. o_pós acc. ô_pa, (ópsomai, fut. of horáo_) the eye,
face, countenance (from Liddell-Scott Greek-English Lexicon (underscores
indicate a long vowel, i.e. <o_> = omega, <e_> = eta))

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