Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
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hazel . - noun In coal-mining, a tough mixture of sandstone and shale.
- To make dry; parch up.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb obsolete To make dry; to dry.
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- noun Archaic form of
hazel . - adjective Archaic form of
hazel .
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Examples
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a tree named _luma_, for axle-trees and the poles of carriages; of a particular kind of hazle for ship-building, which answers excellently for oars; they likewise make chests and boxes of a species of cypress, and of a tree named _ciruelillo_.
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Bleaks in a boat in a Summers evening, with a hazle top about five or six foot long, and a line twice the length of the
The Compleat Angler 2007
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Immediately upon their receiving this name, the trumpet is sounded, and they all leave the hill and return for Mecca, and being gone two or three miles on their way [,] they then rest for that night34; but after nomas, before they go to rest, each person gathers nine-and-forty small stones about the bigness of an hazle nut; the meaning of which I shall acquaint you with presently.
Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003
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Three hundred years ago the British scientist Thomas Harriot wrote, “Those weapons that they have, are onlie bowes made of Witch hazle, and arrows of reeds; neither have they anything to defend themselves but targets made of barcks; and some armours made of sticks wickered together with thread.”
A Lincoln Rhyme eBook Boxed Set Jeffery Deaver 2001
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-- The common wild hazle of our hedges has been improved, by chance or cultivation, into the several varieties of red and white filberts and cob-nuts.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various
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Working them upon the hazle, or upon themselves, is necessary; because, it not only makes them more fruitful, but also brings them sooner into bearing.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 281, November 3, 1827 Various
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And harebells bloomin 'bonnie, O! Below a spreadin' hazle lea,
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume III The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century Various
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John Aubrey, who knew him personally, thus describes him: 'He was of a middling stature, pretty strong set, roundish cherry-checked, hazle-eyed, brown-haired.'
The International Monthly, Volume 2, No. 4, March, 1851 Various
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Sir ROGER was proceeding in the character of him, when we saw him make up to us with two or three hazle-twigs in his hand, that he had cut in
The Coverley Papers Various
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Take the flesh of a hinder part of a hare, or any other venison and mince it small with a little fat bacon, some pistaches or pine-apple kernels, almonds, Spanish or hazle nuts peeled, Spanish chesnuts or
The accomplisht cook or, The art & mystery of cookery Robert May
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