Izzard

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Izzard \Iz"zard\, n. (Zool.)
     See {Izard}.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Izzard \Iz"zard\, n. [Formerly ezed, prob. fr. F. et z['e]de and
     z.]
     The letter z; -- formerly so called.

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Zed \Zed\, n. [F., probably through It. zeta, fr. L. zeta. See
     {Zeta}.]
     The letter {Z}; -- called also {zee}, and formerly {izzard}.
     "Zed, thou unnecessary letter!" --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  izzard
       n : the 26th letter of the Roman alphabet; "the British call Z
           zed and the Scots call it ezed but Americans call it
           zee"; "he doesn't know A from izzard" [syn: {Z}, {zee}, {zed},
            {ezed}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  57 Moby Thesaurus words for "izzard":
     Z, apodosis, catastrophe, ceasing, cessation, coda, conclusion,
     consummation, crack of doom, culmination, curtain, curtains, death,
     decease, denouement, destination, destiny, doom, effect, end,
     end point, ending, envoi, epilogue, eschatology, expiration, fate,
     final solution, final twitch, final words, finale, finality, finis,
     finish, goal, last, last breath, last gasp, last things,
     last trumpet, last words, latter end, omega, payoff, period,
     peroration, quietus, resolution, resting place, stoppage,
     stopping place, swan song, term, terminal, termination, terminus,
     windup