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hazeln.adj. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Dutch hasel (only in place names; Middle Dutch hāsel , Dutch hazel (only in compounds and derivatives: the usual word for the tree is now hazelaar (compare -er suffix1)), Old Saxon hasal (in hasalwurt hazelwort n.; Middle Low German hassel , hāsel ), Old High German hasal (Middle High German hasel , German Hasel ), Icelandic hasl , Old Norwegian hasl (Norwegian hassel ), Old Swedish hasl (Swedish hassel ), Danish hassel , (regional) hæssel < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin corulus , corylus (compare corylet n.), Early Irish coll , Old Welsh, Welsh coll . Compare also ( < the same Germanic base, with suffix causing i-mutation) Old Icelandic hesli , Old Swedish häsle (Swedish regional hässle ), Old Danish hæsle (Danish regional hæsle ), apparently originally representing a collective formation. Compare halse n.2The β. forms are of more than one origin: partly reflecting Old English (Mercian and Kentish) forms with e ( < æ ), and partly (especially in northern Middle English and Older Scots) either influenced by or borrowed from early Scandinavian (compare Old Icelandic hesli and its Scandinavian cognates cited above). The word occurs frequently in Anglo-Saxon charter bounds (compare e.g. quots. eOE, OE, lOE at Compounds 2a), and is also widely attested in place names. A. n. 1. the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hazel > [noun] the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > hazel-nut > hazel-nut tree eOE (1974) 14 Corylus, haesil. eOE (Royal) (1865) i. xxxviii. 96 Hæsles ragu & holenrinde niþewearde & gyþrifan, gecnua swiðe wel þa wyrta. OE (2011) 77 Saginus, hwit hæsel. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 4337 Hasles [c1300 Otho aseles] þer greowen. ?a1300 Thrush & Nightingale (Digby) l. 3 in C. Brown (1932) 101 Somer is comen wiþ loue to toune,..Þe note of hasel springeþ. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in (1906) 19* De coudre depessez la noys, breke that note of the hasulle. ?a1425 (Egerton) (1889) 83 It es lyke vnto þe floure of þe hesill, þat springes oute before þe lefes. (Harl. 221) 238 Hesyl, tre, corulus. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in iii. f. ccclx If thou desyre grapes, thou goest not to the hasel. a1552 J. Leland (1711) V. 55 The Place wher the Town was ys al over growen with Brambles, Hasylles, and lyke Shrubbes. 1618 W. Lawson xi. 34 What an infinite number of bushes, shrubs, and skrogs of hazels, thornes, and other profitable wood. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Pastorals v, in tr. Virgil 20 Beneath the grateful Shade, Which Hazles, intermix'd with Elms, have made. 1725 R. Bradley at Catkin Catkins, the Male Blossoms of Nut-bearing..Trees, &c...; in the Hazel they are long Strums, composed of very small Flowers. 1769 J. Home v A dell, whose sloping sides are rough With thick-grown hazel. 1778 (Royal Bot. Garden, Edinb.) 5 Corylus colurna,..Constantinople Hazel. 1821 J. Clare I. 92 A russet red the hazels gain. 1855 ‘E. S. Delamer’ 153 The Variegated and the Purple Hazels are ornamental shrubs in some esteem. 1880 F. von Mueller (Indian ed.) 100 This, as well as the European Hazel (Corylus Avellana, L.) and the Japan Hazel (C. heterophylla, Fischer), might be naturalized in forest gullies for their filberts. 1927 J. Buchan iv. 87 The birches were still only a pale vapour, but there were buds on the saughs and the hazels. 1945 33 554 The most conspicuous tall shrubs were beaked hazel, American hazel, round-leaved dogwood, and round-leaved shadblow. 1995 Nov. 675/1 Hazels..if grown for nuts..should not be coppiced at ground level. 2005 C. Tudge ix. 195 Some of the most beautiful, most iconic, most treasured, and most ecologically and economically significant of temperate broadleaved trees: the oaks, beeches, chestnuts,..hazels,..walnuts, pecans and hickories. 1827 G. W. Barnard Rep. King Island in (1923) 3rd Ser. VI. 267 A Shrub of which there is considerable quantity,..I shall call the ‘Hazel’ to which it has a similitude, is found commonly in the Creeks of V.D. Land. 1877 20 Oct. 491/1 In many places there is a dense undergrowth of Australian Hazel, through which it is difficult to force one's way. 1915 E. Phillpotts 95 The foliage of this Victorian Hazel is effective, but no great interest attaches to the plant. 1954 6 Feb. 182 Up the gully sides we plough to reach thickets of thin, straight and tall-growing native hazel (Pomaderris apetala). 1973 D. Wolfe 195 A dense under-forest of blackwoods, hazel, musk and other mountain species struggled towards the dim light above. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > medicinal trees or shrubs > [noun] > non-British medicinal trees or shrubs > witch hazel 1867 8 239 I resorted to it (the hazel) with perfect succes—having only used it for the purpose of preventing abortion, from the effects of the cotton root. 1880 27 Nov. Hazeline is the most concentrated and efficacious product of the Hazel. 1903 29 101 In this generation the insect is winged and leaves the birch to return to the hazel. 1974 (Hazardous Materials Advisory Comm.) 105 The major woody plants that must be kept under control include oak (Quercus spp.),..hazel (Hamamelis spp.), elm (Ulmus spp.), and blackberry (Rubus spp.). 2010 D. Wells 160 Another garden favorite is the witch hazel, which is a hazel only in name. 1871 51 Guevina Avellana, Molina... The evergreen Hazel tree of Chili, growing as far as 30° S. 1876 62 Hazel, Guevina avellana. 1914 I. 27/1 The genera [of Proteaceæ] in cultivation in America are mostly the following: Banksia; Gevuina (Chilean Nut, Chile Hazel), grown in California; [etc.]. 1979 12 July 94/1 Gevuina avellana, known as the Chilean Hazel, is a handsome evergreen tree with large pinnate leaves of a glistening rich green. 2012 (Nexis) 4 Apr. 28 There are..carpets of primroses, shrubs and trees, some of which, for example the evergreen Chilean hazel, Gevuina avellana, are particularly large and rare. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood of specific trees > [noun] > hazel 1381 Diuersa Servicia in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler (1985) 74 After do it on a broche of hasel & do hem to þe fere to roste. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 369 Þere is a lake þat torneþ hasel into asche and asche into hasel. c1425 tr. J. Arderne (Sloane 6) (1910) 74 (MED) Þat he haue a pipe of tree, namely of box, or of hesel..or of salowe. a1475 (Harl. 2340) f. 29v (MED) Make A knyfe of grene hesyll eggyd. a1500 (?a1400) (Cambr.) (1930) l. 77 (MED) A stikke i haue to my witnesse -- Off hasill i mene þat hit is. a1550 (?a1475) (1959) l. 266 (MED) Then on the morne they mayde them beerys Of byrch and haysell graye. 1634 H. Peacham (new ed.) xxi. 251 I leave it to their [sc. Anglers'] owne discretion, whether to use either Haysell, or Cane. 1665 J. Webb 165 Hasle was the material of which the stakes were at first made. 1736 ii. ii. 254 A Rod..made of Red Sallow, Withe or Hazel. 1786 R. Burns (1968) I. x Nae whip nor spur, but just a wattle O'..hazel. 1819 C. Grotz 6 There are several sorts of wood made use of for this purpose; some prefer hazel, others willow, and others alder. 1876 5 442 He made use of no other remedy than a rod of hazel to cure broken bones. 1915 J. Buchan (1919) iii. 31 I cut a walking stick of hazel, and presently struck off the highway up a by-path which followed the glen of a brawling stream. 1996 R. Mabey 89/1 Hazel is also still used to peg down thatch. 2009 U. McGovern & P. Jenner 310 Traditionally, dowsers have used Y-shaped twigs, usually of hazel. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [noun] > hazel-nut 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. xv. xxii. 446 As for other nuts, their meat is solide and compact, as we may see in Filberds and Hazels. a1729 E. Taylor (1960) 194 The Nut of evry kinde..Beech, Hazle, Wallnut, Cocho, Almond brave Pistick or Chestnut in its prickly Cave. 1840 25 Mar. 113 Numerous cavities, irregular in size and shape, varying from the size of a hazel to that of a walnut. 1885 E. Balfour (ed. 3) II. 754/1 The nuts have the taste of hazels. 1916 40 This particular shrub is rather homely,..but it bears heavily of large thin shelled hazels of the highest quality. 1934 27 Dec. 11/5 We import annually thousands of tons of almonds, walnuts, Brazil nuts, peccans, pine kernels, and hazels. 1999 B. W. Minifie (ed. 3) xix. 542 The almonds and hazels are roasted at a high temperature. 2012 21 Dec. 20/1 Hazels..may, strictly, be filberts, with a long husk (full beard) completely enclosing the nut, or cobnuts with a husk shorter than the nut. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > wood > wood in specific form > [noun] > stick, twig, or rod > from specific tree or place a1613 G. Owen (1892) xxviii. 276 The horsmens cudgell was to be assised by drawing it throwe a ringe,..and the same to be of a hasell soe as the same might harm. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Richard II cxxxv, in (1878) III. 170 The Hassle soe will bend (A Rhabdomancie, was observ'd of old) Stretch'd on the Earth, vnto a Mine of Gold. 1677 N. Cox (ed. 2) iv. 71 Let the Angler fit himself with a Hazle of one piece or two set conveniently together. 1747 S. Richardson I. xxi. 143 Mr. Solmes..fell to gnawing the head of his hazel. 1830 22 He cut a hazel from the brake. 1932 in Marquess of Zetland i. 24 ‘Now, boys,’ exclaimed Mr. Bickmore cheerfully one evening, ‘I have been into the shrubbery and cut a hazel and an elm stick. The elm is for the boys who can't do their Latin grammar in the morning, and the hazel is for those who can't do their sums.’ 1959 M. Jacobs ii. 411 He made quail-cage-traps (of two-feet long hazels). 1691 J. Dunton I. 22 His Eyes are as black as a Coal..with a little dash of yellow in 'em, or else grey, blew, or a lovely Hazle. 1774 O. Goldsmith II. 82 The different colours of the eye are the dark hazle, the light hazle, the green, the blue, the grey, the whitish grey. 1805 T. Harral I. 52 An eye..the index of an intelligent soul; it was a full, bright hazel. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. 20 Eyes..of a light hazel in their colour. 1843 C. Holtzapffel I. 104 The colours of rose-wood are from light hazel to deep purple, or nearly black. 1945 97 60 The flanks, pure white or only very slightly marked with hazel. 2002 G. Duncan (2003) 189 Elfin eyes of yellowish hazel. B. adj.the world > matter > colour > named colours > brown or brownness > [adjective] > reddish brown > nut or chestnut 1580 J. Lyly (new ed.) f. 61 Hir eyes hasill, yet bright, and such were the lightes of Venus. 1597 W. Shakespeare iii. i. 20 Didst not thou fall out with a man for cracking of nuts, hauing no other reason, but because thou hadst hasill eyes. View more context for this quotation 1661 J. Burton 98 Eriander was rather of a round than long visage, his eyes of a Hazle or Chesnut colour. 1699 E. Tyson 53 The Iris was of a light hazel Colour. 1745 J. Swift Dick, a Maggot in X. 227 You know him by his hazel Snout. 1747 G. Edwards II. 69 The Eye of a yellowish Hazle Colour. 1787 G. Winter 24 Black and hazle colour soils. 1805 W. Scott vi. xix. 178 O'er her white bosom strayed her hazel hair. 1813 W. Scott iv. v. 158 Her full dark eye of hazel hue. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton II. viii. ii. 232 In the quick glance of his clear hazel eye. 1922 (Univ. of Boston School of Educ.) 96 267/1 Her eyes were of hazel hue and so clear they fairly sparkled. 1947 G. M. O'Donnell in A. Tate 271 As he laughed, she saw that the mist was gone from his eyes, and in the blue there were hazel flecks that she had not seen before. 2004 July 148/3 The last few years have put a hard glint in hazel eyes that were once so puppyish. Compounds C1. Compounds of the adjective. 1665 J. Crowne 161 Her right Eye being of a Hazel brown. 1764 11 Feb. Anne Mewris is a tall jolly Woman, of a fresh Complexion, round Hazel grey Eyes. 1816 (Royal Soc.) 106 121 The colour of the animal is various; the upper surface being generally hazel grey, reddish brown, or purple. 1855 2 389/2 His hair was of a hazel brown. 1891 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ I. 3 Large hazel-brown eyes. 1893 23 Aug. 2/1 The hazel green eyes glanced with intense life. 1925 42 423 The second male [hazel grouse] is more of a hazel brown than the type. 1939 20 Sept. 2/4 She gazed at him with honest hazel gold eyes. 1981 tr. G. Pacioni 168 Cap 2.5–4 cm, very light leather-yellow, pale hazel-ochre, uniformly colored. 2014 (Nexis) 10 Aug. e1 Her hazel-green eyes sparkle at every amusing anecdote she tells. 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby ii. 150 The Eyes [of the Ostrich] are great, with hazel-coloured Irides. 1762 13 Aug. 159/3 Dark brown Hair, a little bushey, brown Complexion, Hazel-eyed. 1806 R. Forsyth IV. 228 A deep hazle-coloured loam. 1824 (ed. 5) V. 108 Pretty strong set,..hazel-eyed, brown haired. 1885 J. Ruskin I. v. 141 A..dark hazel-eyed, slim-made, lively girl. 1908 M. J. Cawein II. 501 There in the past I see her as of old, Blue-eyed and hazel-haired. 1954 A. Trocchi vii. 124 It was in this latter room that I first saw Nadya,..her slender, almost hazel coloured arms holding a wonderful mauve and white orchid above her head where she lay. 2015 (Nexis) 27 Sept. (Style section) 6 Their children are beautiful: hazel-eyed, tawny and sparkling with precocious intelligence. C2. Compounds of the noun. eOE Bounds (Sawyer 495) in W. de G. Birch (1887) II. 542 Of ðære apuldre þe stent wið westan þam wege þurh þone lea to þam miclan hæslwride, of þam hæslwride adun on þa blacan rixa. OE Bounds (Sawyer 786) in D. Hooke (1990) 182 Of þære twycenan on þa hæselræwe ondlong streames on horwyllan. lOE Bounds (Sawyer 446) in W. de G. Birch (1887) II. 460 Þonon to þam wylfpyttæ þonnæ on gærihta þurh hæselholt to clæfærdæne æft on þæt dell. ?a1300 Thrush & Nightingale (Digby) l. 106 in C. Brown (1932) 104 (MED) Fowel, þou sitest on hasel bou: Þou lastest hem, þou hauest wou. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) I. 53 (MED) For brynnyng with wilde fyre: tak rest bacon, and do hit on a grene hesill styk. a1450 in T. Austin (1888) 31 (MED) Take a gret porcyoun of Haselle leuys, & grynd in a morter. a1500 (1839) 22 It was as lytelle as a hesylle styke. 1584 R. Scot x. vii. 183 There must be made vpon a hazell wand three crosses. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 248 Kate like the hazle twig Is straight, and slender. View more context for this quotation 1678 S. Butler iii. ii. 183 He's mounted on a Hazel Bavin. 1678 E. R. Table sig. Bbbv/2 With your hand strike the wind equally into every place of the shoulders, and when they be both full, beat all the windy places, with a good Hazel-wand. 1744 J. Thomson Summer in (new ed.) 107 Close in the Covert of an Hazel Copse. c1786 T. Blaikie (1931) 205 They have had here the famous Charlatain Lebreton who pretends by means of a hazel rod to descover Springs. 1822 J. Woods 206 I dug a piece of prairie-land to sow it on; part of it had some hazle-brush on it. 1848 May 107/2 Holy are the hazel woodlands green. 1855 Ld. Tennyson Brook in 110 I slide by hazel covers. 1862 W. Barnes III. 79 On zides of hazzle wrides, Nuts do hang a-zunnèn. 1880 XI. 549/1 The virtue of the hazel wand was supposed to be dependent on its having two forks. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney 282/2 Hazel rods. Thin rods of hazel are often used for the handles of smiths' tools..which have to be struck by a hammer. 1911 Sept. 460 The bracken loves light, hence it avoids the shade of the alder and hazel woodland. 1932 F. L. Wright i. 46 With scattered hazel-brush and trees. 1969 (U.S. Department Agriculture) Dec. 4/1 These additional fuels can be grouped thus:..II. Reindeer moss.., dead bracken fern.., and hazel leaves... III. Hazel twigs, eastern larch needles [etc.]. 1982 B. 82 291 The nature of the dry-land vegetation was changing..from hazel woodland with occasional elms, pine or birch to a more typical mixed oak forest. 2008 C. Peacock iii. 28 She went without a word, picking her way among the shadowy chairs and music stands as gracefully as a deer in a hazel copse. 1799 No. 15194. 1050/2 Hazle-Hooped Powder—147 Whole Barrels, 428 Half Barrels, 117 Quarter Barrels. 1828 J. M. Spearman 59 Budge barrels..hazle hooped. 1830 J. Wilson Noctes Ambrosianæ in June 946 Yonder flows..the long dim shallow rippling hazel-banked line of music among the broomy braes. 1874 S. W. Williams 138/2 Long, hazel shaped nuts of the Torreya nucifera. 1879 1 148 The situation of this old church and graveyard, on the slope of a hazel-copsed hill,..is truly picturesque. 1990 (Nexis) Dec. 52 Small round pieces of beef tenderloin or lamb; also, hazel shaped or colored Nouilles. 2005 N. Blake v. 104 The standard barrels produced by the royal powder mills were copper- or hazel-hooped. c. See also hazel grouse n., hazel hen n., hazelnut n., hazel tree n., hazel wood n., hazelwort n.1869 E. Newman 182/2 The Hazel Carpet... The moth appears on the wing in June, and seems to be abundant in most parts of England, Scotland, and Ireland. (The scientific name is Cidaria corylata.) 1913 G. Scorer 78 (Broken-barred or Hazel Carpet)... Rests on palings and trunks. May be beaten out of hedge rows. the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > lungwort or lungs of oak 1772 J. Rutty I. 141 [Lichenoides pulmonum reticulatum] was sent me from the North, under the name of Hazel-rag or Hazel-crottles, being found growing on the Hazel-tree and sometimes on the Apple-tree. 1781 I. 111 Hazel crottles, used in dying woollen cloth, of a durable orange colour, is found in the county of Dublin. 1839 R. Dunglison (ed. 2) 357/2 Lichen pulmonarius,..Hazel Crottles... This plant..was once in high repute in curing diseases of the lungs. 1944 10 54 (table) L[obaria] pulmonaria... Oaklung, lungwort, Aikraw, Hazelraw, Hazelcrottle, Rage, Stane Raws. 1951 J. R. Ellerman & T. C. S. Morrison-Scott 549 Muscardinus avellanarius... Common Dormouse. Hazel Dormouse. 1992 (Nexis) 21 July 5 The hazel dormouse used to be found in woods over most of England and much of Wales, but probably never occurred in Scotland. 2007 Autumn 79/2 (caption) Hazel dormouse hibernating in a nest of shredded honeysuckle bark and leaves. the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > means of attracting fish > [noun] > real or imitation flies ?1758 R. Bowlker 72 The Welshman's Button. Or Hazle Fly, comes in at the latter end of July. 1832 14 Apr. 87/2 The hazel-fly is a killing fly in May and June; the body is composed of ostrich harl of two colours, black and purple twisted together. 1978 G. Almy v. 133 The Marlow buzz (hazel fly, shorn fly) was another frequently used beetle imitation. the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > hoe > other types of hoe 1835 12 June (advt.) 6 dozen weeding hoes; 3 doz. grubbing hoes; 3 doz. hazle hoes. 1895 Spring & Summer 391/2 Hazel Hoes, weight, 3 pounds, length, 10 in... Hazel Hoe Handles. 1953 (Empire Forestry Assoc.) 75 Hazel hoe, a fire trenching or digging tool, resembling a grub hoe but having a shorter, broader and lighter blade, a round or oval eye, and usually a straight pick-like head. 2001 L. Owens 55 I glanced at the prison crew on one side of the small clearing, leaning on pulaskis and hazel hoes and shovels. 1714 (Royal Soc.) 28 217 This [sc. Virginia Mulberry] and the Hazel-leaved, thrive very well in Fulham Garden. 1878 15 Nov. (Suppl.) 2/2 The hazel-leaved Bramble, Rubus coryfolius,..is also a good bearer, and the fruit is larger than the common sort. 1918 N. L. Britton 113 Ruprechtia corylifolia.., Hazel-leaved Ruprechtia, South American, a small tree with slender branches, ovate-elliptic, acute, thin, short-petioled leaves. 2006 L. Sweedman & D. Merritt App. 3 233/1 Hazel-leaved Rulingia. Rulingia corylifolia. 1607 E. Topsell 545 Of the Nut-Mouse, Hasell-Mouse, or Fildburd-Mouse..so called because they feed vpon hasell-Nuts, and Filburds. 1798 J. Ebers II. 649/1 Die Haselmaus, the Hasel-Mouse or Filberd-Mouse. 1887 G. G. Chisholm tr. C. Vogt & F. Specht II. 149 The Common Dormouse, the Hazel Mouse of the Germans (Muscardinus (Myoxus) avellanarius)..is a charming little creature. 1929 x5/5 Here is a hazel-mouse.., red-brown, with sharp, snappy eyes and a velvet hide. 2001 L. Hansson in J. B. Owen et al. iv. 76 The hazel mouse and its relatives..accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue in autumn before hibernation. 1914 A. M. Laughton 6 The hazel pomaderris (P. apetala). 1999 R. Taylor 62 You may also see some wet gully plants such as Hazel Pomaderris, Wonga-vine and Forest Clematis. 2010 B. Peel iv. 88 (caption) In this case, the species protected was Hazel Pomaderris P[omaderris] aspera. the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > lungwort or lungs of oak 1565 T. Cooper Pulmonaria, after some lungeworte: after other haselragge. 1772 J. Rutty I. 141 [Lichenoides pulmonum reticulatum] was sent me from the North, under the name of Hazel-rag or Hazel-crottles, being found growing on the Hazel-tree and sometimes on the Apple-tree. 1849 18 Aug. 101/2 The lungwort, or hazel rag (Sticta pulmoacea),..is also boiled in ale by the Siberians instead of hops. 1991 E. M. Bolton (ed. 2) iv. 20 The Herefordshire country people used to dye their woollen stockings brown with this lichen [sc. Lobaria pulmonaria]. It was also used in the Lowlands of Scotland, as one of the crottles, and in Northern Ireland—where it is called Hazel-rag. the world > plants > particular plants > lichen > [noun] > lungwort or lungs of oak 1777 J. Lightfoot II. 831 [Lichen pulmonarius] Hazleraw. Scotis australibus. Upon the trunks of old trees, in shady woods. 1819 (Amer. ed. 2) 43/1 In the north and west of Scotland these lichens [sc. Parmelia spp.] are sometimes promiscuously called crottles: in..the south of Scotland hazel-raw. 1925 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ 23 Had the fug o' fame An' history's hazelraw No' yirdit thaim. 2015 S. D. Crawford in B. Ranković ii. 59 (table) Lobaria pulmonaria... Lungwort, lungs of oak, or oak lung (English); hazelraw (Scotland); crotal coille (Ireland). the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > tree or shrub groups > hazel > [noun] > twig or clump of c1400 (?a1300) (Laud) (1952) l. 3289 Whan nutte brouneþ on heselrys. 1568 Christis Kirk on Grene in W. T. Ritchie (1928) II. 266 Heich hucheoun wt a hissill ryss. a1796 R. Burns (1968) I. 437 So Moses wi' a hazel-rice Came o'er the stane. 1870 J. M'Killop 55 Constables wi' hazel rice Were forc'd to quell the quarrels. 1845 27 Sept. Some Mormons concealed in the hazel rough, nine miles from this place, fired upon him. 1893 23 Nov. Among the hazel-roughs are still a few chewinks. 1972 'E. Clifford' vi. 88 The hazel rough..was mean country,..a matted, tangled jungle of hazel brush lashed together with grape vines. 2013 E. Sarra in N. R. Hiller viii. 119 A massive slough known as the ‘Hazel Rough’ provided a convenient if perilous place for escaping slaves to hide. the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > order Artiodactyla (cloven-hoofed animals) > pig > [noun] > specific breeds 1866 6 Jan. 6/2 That class who prefer the active, energetic ‘hazel splitters’ to the lazy Berkshire. 1900 T. A. McNeal 213 A lean, ill-favored Arkansaw hazel-splitter, which had not..fat enough in its entire system to grease the running-gears of a katydid. 2007 P. Salstrom 43 They ran semi-wild and were called many names but answered to none—razorbacks, land sharks,..wind-splitters, hazel-splitters. 1843 ‘R. Carlton’ II. lii. 206 We had ceased from digging a well, after finding no water at twenty-five feet; although we had employed a great hazel-wizzard. 1882 14 Oct. 1311/2 Most of the hazel wizards have been grown persons. 1920 9 Oct. 108/3 The editor of Discovery (London) is certain that the hazel wizard can do, and has repeatedly done, this very thing [sc. locating underground springs]. 1845 J. E. Gray 100 The Blind Worm. Anguis fragilis, Linn... Hazelworm, Van Lier. 1873 Dec. 680/2 In the Tyrol, it is believed that the plant [sc. mistletoe] is guarded by the serpent called hazel-worm (our blindworm). 1900 (Special Consular Rep. XX, U.S. Dept. of State Bureau of Foreign Commerce) 165 Familiarizing the scholars with..(b) the lizard and the grass snake or hazel worm. 1912 J. R. Mohler & A. Eichhorn tr. F. Hutyra & J. Marek v. i. 630 The acid and alcohol-fast bacilli that..Moeller [obtained] from a hazel worm (Anguis fragilis). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). <  n.adj.eOE |
