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more wonderful raritiez, vulgaritiez and s/z relationships from Nathan Bailey’s 1736 Canting Dictionary:

ZAD:
crooked, like the letter Z; as, A meer Zad, used of any bandy-legg’d, crouch-back’d or deformed Person.
ZANY:
a Mountebank’s Merry-Andrew, or Jester, to distinguish him from a Lords’s Fool.
ZLOUCH:
or Slouch; a slovenly ungenteel Man.
ZNEES:
Frost, or Frozen; Zneesy weather; Frosty Weather.
ZNUZ:
the same as Znees.

and from Francis Grose’s 1811 Dictionary of Vulgar Tongue:

zedland
Great part of the west country, where the letter Z is substituted for S; as zee for see, zun for sun.

z-source: Liam’s Pictures from Old Books via boing boing post