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▪ I. weazen, a.|ˈwiːz(ə)n|
Also 8 weezen, 9 weasen.
Altered form of wizen a.
1765Foote Commissary i. 10 His little weezen face as sharp as a razor. 1793C. Smith Old Manor House I. iii. (ed. 2) 53 However she may set her weazen face against it..she likes at the bottom of her heart a young fellow of spirit. 1820W. Irving Sketch Bk., Inn Kitchen I. 317 A little swarthy Frenchman, with a dry weazen face. 1839Dickens Nich. Nick. lxii, A little, weazen, hump-backed man. 1877W. S. Gilbert Foggerty's Fairy (1892) 76 A weazen little body, with over ladylike manners.
fig.1901Blackw. Mag. Oct. 577 Their policy was not weazen and anæmic.
b. Comb.: weazen-face, -faced adjs.
1794Godwin Caleb Williams 37 He is but a poor, weazen⁓face chicken of a gentleman. 1824W. Irving T. Trav., Bold Dragoon (1848) 30 A pale, weazen-faced fellow. 1841Thackeray Gt. Hoggarty Diam. ii, A little weazen-faced old lady. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. xi, A little blear-eyed, weazen-faced, ancient man came creeping out.
▪ II. weazen, v.|ˈwiːz(ə)n|
Also 9 weezen.
[Altered form of wizen v.]
intr. To shrink, shrivel. Also trans. (? nonce-use) to cause to shrink.
1821Lonsdale Mag. II. 409, I put those three shillings..into a hole, and I found them weezened every time I went to look at them... I have just found it out that Dick has weezend them. 1850Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. XI. ii. 605 Nothing retards their [sc. pigs'] feeding so much as allowing them to be pining and weazening for their anticipated regular meal. |