Part 5

ZODIAC: 1. The wallpaper of the heavens. 2. The mirrors of the nothingness of Man and the sublimity of the nothingness of Space.

ZEAL: The feeling you have before you secure the thing, as compared with "Stung," which is your condition after you have captured it.

ZONE: The region immediately surrounding a Limburger Cheese.

ZERO: A round figure often referred to by Doctor Cook in his diary, and which his enemies tried to make symbolic of himself.

ZIGZAG: The route followed by poets in arriving at truth, as opposed to the direct course which they take for the buffet.

ZEUS: A grouchy old god who was so reduced in estate that he posed as a model for Greek artists.

ZEPHYR: A ladylike blizzard.

ZEITGEIST: The things that everybody believes, but that nobody understands.

Transcriber's Notes:

Italics indicated _like this_

Small caps indicated LIKE THIS.

Each word definition was surrounded by small bullet shaped decorations.

Each letter group definition list and each page was surrounded by page-width decorations.

The definitions are not in alphabetical order in the original.

Corrections made to text:

Definition of agriculturist: duplicate "in" removed.

Definition of chums: right parenthesis supplied at end of second sentence.

Definition of consciousness: extraneous right parenthesis removed.

Definition of decalogue: "animiles" corrected to "animals".

Definition of diplomat: "man" corrected to "woman".

Definition of house: comma at end of sentence two changed to period.

Definition of oratory: 4 changed to 3.

End of Project Gutenberg's The Roycroft Dictionary, by Elbert Hubbard