hazen.
/heɪz/, U.S. /heɪz/ 1.
a. A fog or thick mist, or something resembling this; esp. (in later use) a phenomenon consisting of a body of dust or other minute particles suspended in the atmosphere at or near the ground so as to limit visibility in a way similar to fog or mist; such particles viewed collectively as a substance or medium. Also in a figurative context.In meteorology, haze is typically distinguished from fog and mist in being caused by solid particles rather than droplets of water.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > haze
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gauze1842
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1582 R. Madox Diary 18 Apr. in E. S. Donno Elizabethan in 1582 (1976) 113 Mr. Banyster cauled me up to se a comet, but yt was Venus with a great fyery haze lyke a bushlock abowt hir.
1589 E. Hayes in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations iii. 692 Master Coxe looking out, discerned (in his iudgement) white cliffs, crying (lande) withall, though we could not afterward descry any land, it being very likely the breaking of the sea white, which seemed to be white cliffes through the hase and thicke weather.
1681 J. Flamsteed Gresham Lect. (1975) 109 Its head to ye bare eye appeared as a star of ye 3d light in the Telescope onely a bright haze like ye Neb and ye Girdle of And.
1691 W. Wollaston Design Part of Bk. Ecclesiastes 100 Round all a sullen haze is circumfus'd, Condens'd of gasps, which dying lips produc'd.
1732 Philos. Trans. 1731–2 (Royal Soc.) 37 272 About 3h 50 in the Morning the Moon was wholly hid by the Haze.
1774 Scots Mag. June 282/2 The first day attended with haze and small rain, the second with haze only, and the last day clear.
1833 H. Martineau Charmed Sea viii. 128 He disappeared in the silvery night haze.
1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola I. xiv. 241 There was a thin yellow haze from incense mingling with the breath of the multitude.
1908 ‘G. A. Birmingham’ Spanish Gold 32 The coast to the east, a low dark line, lay almost hidden in the haze.
1955 Sci. Amer. May 63/1 It seldom occurs to us that an autumn fog or a summer haze also is a form of air pollution.
2017 Daily Mirror 24 Jan. 11/4 The Houses of Parliament looked ghostly yesterday morning while the Angel of the North, near Gateshead, Tyne and Wear, shimmered through the haze.
b. With of. A diffuse, even illumination caused by light passing through a mist or haze.
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1829 J. Emerson Lett. from Ægean 229 The rays of the unclouded sun beam fiercely down on their unsheltered hills, ‘Dimmed with a haze of light’.
1891 M. Oliphant Jerusalem 435 The soft hills on the other side in a haze of sunshine.
1928 Daily Express 29 May 2/5 The wheels of amusement at the Kursaal are turning nineteen to the dozen, while shadowy figures move through the haze of sunshine to the water-chute and the other excitements.
1964 N. Amer. Rev. Mar. 79/2 The soft sad glance of her mother's face caught in a haze of light as she leaned over the table lamp and turned it on.
2010 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. 23 Apr. (Local section) 2 (caption) Despite the deep blue haze of Thursday's predawn light, it was apparent through a telephoto lens that the San Gabriel Mountains had acquired a covering of snow from the recent storm.
c. An optical effect in which the air appears to shimmer and distant objects appear distorted, which is especially common in very hot weather. Cf. mirage n. 1. Also called heat haze.The effect is caused by light being refracted as it passes through air of varying temperatures.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > hot weather > [noun] > shimmering or undulating effect of hot air
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Laurence1907
1847 C. W. Johnson Brit. Husbandry I. x. 247 The evaporation from such a dunghill appears to be just the steam of water in a highly elastic state, glimmering like a hot haze in a sunny day, on looking across a ploughed field.
1889 Nature 31 Jan. 324/1 This haze is due to small convection currents of the cold air from above.
1932 Monroe (Louisiana) Morning World 7 Feb. (Fiction & Features section) The sun beat down on the narrow road, a shimmering haze hung between the trees, and a heavy, languorous smell of vegetation drugged our senses.
1984 Cruise Trav. Feb. 29/2 Like pilgrims before them, they stare across the shimmering haze at the walls of Jerusalem.
2005 D. Leitch Autobiogr. of Donovan (2007) 43 The sounds of the beach droned on, the haze shimmering over the ocean in the exceptionally hot afternoon.
2. figurative. A condition of intellectual vagueness and indistinctness; a state of mental confusion. Also: an immaterial thing conceived as obscuring a person's mental vision or outlook, or as veiling the real character of something.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > [noun] > unclear condition
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1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 69 In the fog and haze of confusion all is enlarged.
1843 E. Miall in Nonconformist 3 489 A haze of false and wretched morality.
1867 J. H. Burton Hist. Scotl. to 1688 I. i. 43 The annalists..were peopling the haze with real persons.
1879 J. McCarthy Hist. our Own Times II. xxix. 362 No shade or faint haze of a doubt appeared anywhere.
1888 J. Bryce Amer. Commonw. III. lxxx. 55 Nor do their moral and religious impulses remain in the soft haze of self-complacent sentiment.
1920 S. Lewis Main St. xv. 190 Through the haze of nausea she heard Kennicott grumbling.
1984 ‘Morrissey’ Heaven knows I'm Miserable Now in Smiths: Compl. Chord Songbk. (2005) 58 I was happy in the haze of a drunken hour, But Heaven knows I'm miserable now.
2013 Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 14 Nov. 21 ‘Amazing,’ he says, gazing round like a hippy in a drug-induced haze.
3. Medicine. Opacity or clouding of the cornea, lens, etc., of the eye. Also: blurred vision or loss of visual clarity, contrast, or brightness associated with such opacity, esp. as a (temporary) result of surgery which reshapes the cornea. Cf. albugo n. 1, leucoma n.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > film or web
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness > thing
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1820 B. Travers Synopsis Dis. Eye ii. i. 90 The first effect of inflammation upon the cornea is haze or dimness.
1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 526 Ulceration [in the eye]..sufficiently deep to leave a permanent haze.
1893 W. F. Norris & C. A. Oliver Text-bk. Ophthalmol. xxii. 500 The ophthalmoscope shows a marked haze in the vitreous humor.
1922 Amer. Jrnl. Ophthalmol. 5 124/1 The slight corneal haze, tho still present, was not visible to an ordinary onlooker.
1952 J. L. McGraw & J. M. Enoch Contact Lenses: Eval. Study (U.S. Army Res. Lab. Rep. No. 99) 7 This haze causes a subjective visual fogging and a chromatic halo.
1994 Daily Mail (Nexis) 30 Aug. 36 A few other patients also complained of problems such as glare, haze and distorted vision even if their short-sightedness had been corrected.
2007 Biogr. Mem. Fellows Royal Soc. 53 299 (caption) An unoperated cadaver eye.., showing an intact lens that has a cataract, as demonstrated by the discoloration and haze that is visible.
4. A material thing with indistinct outlines or undefined detail; a thing blurring the outlines of something seen, or obscuring a view.
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1857 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 66/2 Her cheeks..loomed through a Turnerian haze of net-work.
1891 L. Dougall Beggars All 181 The copse..showed nothing but a haze of gray and reddish twigs.
1921 M. Moore Let. 10 July in Sel. Lett. (1997) 169 A blue bird of paradise from New Guinea.., a haze of cinnamon brown feathers back of each leg.
1964 E. Salisbury Weeds & Aliens (ed. 2) v. 127 The blue flowers appear in a haze of leaf-segments.
1979 B. Malamud Dubin's Lives viii. 308 Dubin glimpsed, through a haze of webbed purple capillaries within, a potato nose.
2006 J. Dibbell Play Money i. 6 Disappearing in a haze of sparkly pixels as he teleported off.
5. purple haze: see purple adj. and n. Compounds 1b(c).
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a. General attributive, as haze cloud, haze layer, etc.
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1852 C. Casey Two Years Farm Uncle Sam i. 5 Far, far away to the east, like a haze cloud on the water.
1878 School Newspaper Feb. 18/2 When the day begins to dim and the sun to slant downwards you have a rare opportunity of studying haze effects.
1887 Hist. & Work Warner Observatory I. 50 The great secret of the whole phenomenon lies in the elevated haze-layer.
1921 War Work Bureau of Standards (U.S. Dept. of Commerce) 202 The phenomenon of haze penetration by the longer waves is known to most outdoor photographers.
1948 G. B. Byram & G. M. Jemison Some Princ. Visibility & their Applic. to Forest Fire Detection 50 Its value depends on the angular scattering function of both the haze particles and the particles composing the smoke bodies.
1961 J. L. Brown et al. Sensory & Perceptual Probl. Space Flight (Nat. Res. Council Publ. 872) 8 The upper boundary of the haze..usually appears sharp. However, the sharpness will vary with the haze bands that cause multiple horizons or stratums.
1974 D. L. Coffen & J. E. Hansen in T. Gehrels Planets, Stars & Nebulae ii. 518 It is possible to determine the optical thickness of Rayleigh scatterers above a cloud or haze layer.
1990 New Scientist 28 July 65/1 I notice in the air around us there's plenty of haze pollution.
2006 S. M. Stirling Sky People ii. 50 Through the layer of haze-cloud, and then the forested hills just south of the coastal plain were below them.
b. Instrumental, as haze-dimmed, haze-hung adjs.
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1834 Dublin Penny Jrnl. 22 Nov. 163/1 The haze-woven shroud of that newly born isle, Softly faded away.
1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 168 The blue haze-cradled mountains spread away.
1894 Rev. of Reviews Feb. 170 The low and haze-hung country.
1897 H. G. Wells War of Worlds in Pearson's Mag. Dec. 739/2 Northward, Kilburn and Hampstead rose blue and crowded with houses; westward, the great city was haze-dimmed.
1934 A. Woollcott in S. Walker City Editor Foreword p. vii Chapin..used to issue falsetto and sadistic orders from a swivel chair at the Evening World in that now haze-hung era when Irvin Cobb was the best rewrite man on Park Row.
1947 Los Angeles Times 16 Feb. ii. 1/3 Downtown Los Angeles' haze-filled canyons.
1994 J. Updike Brazil xvi. 127 Gentle corrugations, which radiated out from the center like the rays of a haze-entrapped sun.
2007 T. Goyer Shadow of Treason ix. 77 She waited under a haze-dimmed sun for the next group of correspondents to arrive.
2016 Dayton (Ohio) Daily News (Nexis) 13 Aug. z1 Titan, a haze-shrouded moon of Saturn some 3,200 miles wide.
C2. † haze-fire n. Obsolete rare brilliantly luminous mist.
haze blue adj. and n. (a) adj. of a pale silvery purplish or greyish blue colour; (b) n. this colour.
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1896 W. Sharp Ecce Puella 106 Motionless herself, her eyes travelled through the long haze-blue vistas of the hills.
1900 Atlantic Monthly May 629/1 The exquisite haze-blue, or blue-purple, which mantles the still budded woods on the higher slopes.
1938 Country Life 16 Apr. p. lii/2 There are haze blues and lapis blues, and a whole range of blue-greys [sc. in tweeds].
1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 9 Feb. (Suppl.) 3/1 A successful scheme might begin with haze-blue walls.
1977 Western Morning News 30 Aug. 8 (avt.) Simca..5-door hatchback. Haze Blue.
2005 Autoweek 24 Oct. 25 A recent paint job [to the MG sports coupe] restored the original haze blue sheen.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > cloud > mist > [noun] > luminous mist
haze-fire1842
1842 F. W. Faber Styrian Lake 328 The Carpathian chain, A fence of white haze-fire Compassing the plain.
Derivatives
ˈhazeless adj. free from haze.
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a1835 W. Nevins Select Remains (1836) 95 The immortal bowed himself low to the hazeless sun.
1874 J. Tyndall in Contemp. Rev. Nov. 826 A calm and hazeless atmosphere.
1953 Times 2 Feb. 3/6 The sky is of a clear hazeless blue.
1995 Mass. Rev. 36 13 Sheer cliffs and jagged mesas meander the redbrown desolation of Mimas,..stretching away to the hazeless horizon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hazev.1
/heɪz/, U.S. /heɪz/ 1. † a. transitive. To frighten with a sudden noise. English regional (northern and north-eastern) in later use. Obsolete.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > frighten [verb (transitive)]
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to scare a person silly1942
1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Y2v/1 To hase, or hawze, rompre a tête à quêcun à force de faire du bruit.
1677 A. Littleton Eng.–Lat. Dict. (at cited word), in Dictionarium Latino-Barbarum To haze or hawze one, perterrefacio, clamore obtundo.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Hase, to afright with a sudden Noise.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Hawze, to confound or frighten, to stun one with Noise. C[ountry Word].
b. transitive. Originally English regional (northern and north-eastern). To punish by blows, to beat. Cf. hazing n. 1a. Now rare.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > beat
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to put (a person) through a course of sprouts1839
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to give (a person or thing) gyp1887
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to loosen (a person's) hide1902
1825 [implied in: Gentleman's Mag. May 396/1 I gave him a hazing.].
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Haze, to scold; also, to beat.
1881 E. Sutton N. Lincs. Words in Orig. Gloss. (Eng. Dial. Soc. Publ. No. 32) 118 Haze, to thrash soundly.
1910 H. S. Johnson Williams on Service xx. 221 The demonstration..fled like dust before a wind, the Sergeant close on its heels, hazing unlucky stragglers with his bludgeon.
1939 H. G. Wells Holy Terror ii. iii. 166 The chaps chased and hazed him for tying up young Darlington.
c. transitive. English regional (northern and north-eastern) and Scottish (south-eastern). To remonstrate with or rebuke angrily, to scold.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > rebuke or reproof > rebuke or reprove [verb (transitive)] > scold
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to claw away, off1692
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to blow up1710
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haze1829
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to call down1883
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to go off at (a person)1941
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1829 [implied in: G. Jones Sketches Naval Life I. xvii. 107 He found great fault one morning, with the precincts of the galley. The midshipman of the deck was following..and received a severe hazing for it; which was terminated with an order that every thing should receive a double coat of whitewash. (at hazing n. 1b)].
1876 C. C. Robinson Gloss. Words Dial. Mid-Yorks. Haze, to scold.
1881 E. Sutton N. Lincs. Words in Orig. Gloss. (Eng. Dial. Soc. Publ. No. 32) 118 Haze,..to upbraid.
1923 G. Watson Roxburghshire Word-bk. 166 Haze, to rate or scold (a person).
2. † a. transitive. Nautical (chiefly North American, in later use historical). To punish by keeping at disagreeable and unnecessary hard work; to harass with overwork. Obsolete.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > administration and ceremonial > organize naval affairs, etc. [verb (transitive)] > punish
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to work up1812
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society > occupation and work > working > [verb (transitive)] > set (person) to work > overwork
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1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast viii. 18 Every shifting of the studding-sails was only to ‘haze’ the crew. Note. Let an officer once say ‘I'll haze you’, and your fate is fixed. You will be ‘worked up’, if you are not a better man than he is.
1846 J. R. Browne Etchings Whaling Cruise (1850) 187 The captain disliked him..and continually hazed him for his awkwardness.
1883 R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island xxviii. 233 I'll be hanged if I'll be hazed by you, John Silver.
1893 J. A. Barry Steve Brown's Bunyip 283 Now then, fore-top, there, shift your pins, or I'll haze you.
1928 F. P. Harlow Making of Sailor viii. 167 The work was unnecessary and we knew that we were being hazed.
b. transitive. North American. To force to perform strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks as a new or potential recruit to the military, a university fraternity or sorority, a sports team, etc.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > ill-treatment > cruelty > treat cruelly [verb (transitive)] > specific college freshman
haze1850
bastardize1966
1850 Poem bef. Iadma 22 in B. H. Hall Coll. College Words (1856) 251 'Tis the Sophomores rushing the Freshmen to haze.
1868 in G. M. Sloane Life J. MacCosh (1896) xiv. 216 Did you not hear that he had been hazed?.. They gagged his mouth..shaved his head, then put him under the pump, and left him tied on the campus.
1887 Lippincott's Monthly Mag. Aug. 293 The man who assists in hazing you in Freshman year, and who compels you to stand on a street-corner and scan Greek verse for the edification of the by-standers.
1904 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 4 Oct. 1 Because she was hazed by the young women students at Wesleyan, one ‘quail’..who was a freshman here last year did not return to Wesleyan this fall.
1921 Logansport (Indiana) Pharos Tribune 22 Mar. 8/2 It used to be the custom in some [baseball] training camps..for the veterans to haze ‘rookies’.
1970 R. Reeder Heroes & Leaders West Point v. 39 West Point life is hard, but in 1899 the life of a plebe was severe. When officers were out of sight of the new cadet in the Western hat, upperclassmen hazed him, exercising him until he fainted.
2014 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 20 Oct. a20/4 Although it is unclear how long freshmen had been hazed in Sayreville, it had been going on long enough to be codified with a name—‘ass taking’.
c. transitive. gen. To bully; to intimidate; to tease and ridicule.
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the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being intimidating > intimidate or bully [verb (transitive)]
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to push (someone) around1900
to put the frighteners in, on1958
psych1963
vibe1979
1851 Fraser's Mag. June 649/1 Here have I been five days, fussing, and paying, and swearing..at the custom-house, and then ‘hazing’—what you call slanging—upholsterers.
1901 Congress. Rec. 19 Feb. 2635/2 Mr. Spooner. Is the Senator hazing me? Mr. Tillman. Not at all; I am resisting hazing. You are hazing me. You are subjecting me to the malice aforethought of your eloquence or logic.
1937 W. P. Chrysler & B. Sparkes Life Amer. Workman i. 26 I had no choice but to do any job that he neglected; either that or take a beating. He hazed me pretty constantly, thereby driving me into a closer alliance with my mother.
1977 D. Powis Signs of Crime 100 A joint working up of sufficient courage, if that is the right word, to ‘haze’ a homosexual.
2011 J. Blanco Please stop laughing at Us (rev. ed.) x. 167 Did any of the girls who hazed you ever express remorse?
3. transitive. North American. To drive an animal from horseback, usually in a specified direction.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > herding, pasturing, or confining > [verb (transitive)] > herd > with horse
haze1877
1877 Wallace's Monthly Jan. 680/2 At a year old, she was nearly fourteen hands two inches high, and all smiled and shook their heads as she was hazed around the lot at a swinging trot.
1890 L. C. D'Oyle Notches Rough Edge Life 68 Bill ‘hazed’ 'em again, and they ran up and stood about opposite to me.
1897 Westm. Gaz. 8 Oct. 2/1 The beast may trip or run for dangerous ground, and it is then that a well-mounted companion is necessary to haze or ride him off.
1949 P. Newton High Country Days 95 The calves were hazed through the gate and out into a clean yard.
1962 A. Fry Ranch on Cariboo xxiv. 242 A fine dust rose behind the cattle as we hazed them along the wagon tracks between the scattered trees.
2001 High Country News 29 Jan. 6/2 Beyond the 100 mark, bison will be hazed back across the park line.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hazev.2
/heɪz/, U.S. /heɪz/ 1.
a. intransitive. English regional (northern and eastern). To rain lightly, drizzle; (also) to be foggy.
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the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > rain > rain falls [verb (intransitive)] > rain fine rain
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1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 36 It Hazes, it misles, or rains small rain.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Haze, to drizzle, to be foggy.
1902 Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 102/1 It haazed aboot five o'clock, bud noä watter cum'd to meän noht. A man e' his she't sleeves wo'd n't hev gotten weet.
1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 139/2 Hayze/hazed/haāized, drizzle, drizzled.
b. intransitive. To cause haziness; to obscure a view with haze or fog. Also: to become hazy. Somewhat rare.
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1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 22 O'er Valladolid's regal turrets hazed The drizzly fogs from dull Pisuerga raised.
1989 T. Hughes Wolfwatching 38 A misty rain prickled and hazed.
1997 J. Rathbone Last Eng. King (1999) 337 He drank—white wine from a glass that hazed with cold.
2.
a. transitive. To make hazy; to obscure with a haze.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > make indistinct
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fog?1592
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1801 A. Seward Lett. (1811) V. 353 The noble mountains..are here [in the picture] softened and hazed away into indistinctness.
a1809 A. Seward Poet. Wks (1810) I. 80 I saw their spiral summits hazed, Dim, and more dim, receding as I gazed.
1863 H. E. P. Spofford Amber Gods 416 Soft films just hazing heaven caught the rays till all above gleamed like gauze faintly powdered and spangled with silver.
1923 Jrnl. Illinois State Hist. Soc. 16 102 The smoke of burning wood hazed the air.
2007 A. Theroux Laura Warholic xxi. 314 A misty rain began to fall, hazing the streetlights.
b. transitive. To impair the clarity of (the mind), to confuse.
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the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)]
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giggle-
1858 [implied in: Househ. Words 11 Sept. 297/2 Captain Billy had mounted the coach in a hazed and muzzy condition.].
1910 Academy 5 Feb. 136/2 The divine fire of Dionysus hazing his brain and making his speech bubble over.
1939 T. S. Moore Unknown Known 72 No woman's strangeness had yet hazed his mind.
1978 Galaxy Sci. Fiction Sept. 108/2 As this memory hazed my mind I lay back on the bed and knew at once that I hated this artificial place now.
2003 M. Morris Slow Way Home (2004) i. 10 Her words hazed my mind the same way the bus exhaust blanketed the air.
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hazev.3
/heɪz/, U.S. /heɪz/ English regional (chiefly East Anglian) and Scottish (south-western).
transitive. To dry in the open air.In quot. 1823 intransitive.
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the world > matter > liquid > dryness > dry [verb (transitive)] > superficially
hazzle1642
haze1823
1823 E. Moor Suffolk Words 166 Land drying after having been turned up by the plough, is left to haze before it be harrowed.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Haze, to dry linen, etc. by hanging it up in the fresh air..any thing so exposed is said to be hazed, as rows of corn or hay, when a brisk breeze follows a shower.
1855 J. C. Morton Cycl. Agric. II. (Gloss.) 723/2 Hazed, surface-dried.
1887 D. Donaldson Jamieson's Sc. Dict. Suppl. (at cited word) To Haze... This word originally meant ‘to lay on a hedge’, to hedge-dry cloth or clothes, and by and bye simply to dry clothes in the open air.
1960 A. O. D. Claxton Suffolk Dial. 20th Cent. (ed. 2) 43 Haze, to dry in the sun or fresh air, as corn and washing.
1967 A. Jobson In Suffolk Borders 50 Haze was a term used of corn, and also of land, when drying after a shower of rain.
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hazev.4
/heɪz/, U.S. /heɪz/ North American colloquial.
intransitive. With †about, (a)round (preposition and adverb). To move around or go from place to place aimlessly, or in search of pleasure or entertainment; to wander about; to loaf about; to mess about.
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society > leisure > entertainment > frolicking or romping > frolic [verb (intransitive)]
floxec1200
ragea1275
to dance antics1545
rig1570
to keep (also play) reaks1573
wanton1582
wantonize1592
frolic1593
wantonize1611
hoit1613
mird?c1625
to play about1638
freak1663
romp1665
rump1680
ramp1735
jinket1742
skylark1771
to cut up1775
rollick1786
hoity-toity1790
fun1802
lark1813
gammock1832
haze1848
marlock1863
train1877
horse1901
mollock1932
spadger1939
grab-ass1957
1824 C. M. Sedgwick Redwood I. v. 149 Do be good enough to go to bed again—I can never sleep when any one is hazing about my room.
1839 H. F. Chorley Lion III. ii. x. 21 So, they sit down! um!..and there's one, who goes hazing about after them, as though she would have no objection to make a third!
1841 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 8 592 It would be idle to follow [her]..in hazing about—a capital word that, and one worthy of instant adoption—among the usual sights of London.
1848 N.Y. Com. Adv. 2 Dec. W. had been drinking and was hazing about the street at night.
1855 ‘H. Gringo’ Tales for Marines i. 21 Hazin' round with Charity Bunker and the rest o' the gals.
1857 Ballou's Dollar Monthly Mag. Apr. 328/2 He made his way to his berth, while I went on deck and hazed round his watch a spell.
1870 E. Prentiss Let. in G. L. Prentiss Life & Lett. E. Prentiss (1882) 335 The boys are hazing about.
1876 J. P. Smith His Young Wife iii. 37 While you have been hazing round the globe she's been growing.
1950 tr. A. Chakovsky in Soviet Lit. Sept. 80 I went out to sea with the boys. Hazed around for eight hours, you know what it is! I was just on my way to look you up, although it's rather late.
1986 in B. Nelson Voices & Visions Amer. West iii. 77 We'd been hazing around the land of plenty that summer and spending all our proceeds in town in dens of iniquity.
2014 L. Brandt Trackdown 203 You can't be quiet while you're hazing round a town.
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