hazellyadj.1
/ˈheɪzl̩i/, U.S. /ˈheɪz(ə)li/ Now rare.
Consisting of a mixture of sand, clay, and earth.
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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > constituent materials > earth or soil > soil qualities > [adjective] > mixed with sand and clay
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1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1543/1 The stuffe carried..for the erection of the walles at Douer, was earth, being of a haselie mould, chalke and sleech.
1683 A. Garden Acc. Northside Coast of Buchan in J. Robertson Coll. Hist. Shires Aberdeen & Banff (1843) I. 104 We have a black yellowish kind of soile, enclining to a dark reddish colour: this is that which we call haslie ground.
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry (1708) iii. 53 All sorts of Land may be reduced to Sandy, Gravelly, Chalky, Stony, Rocky, Hazely, [etc.].
1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Pine Any dry Soil, especially light hazelly Brick Earth will do.
1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xviii. 376 The soil proper for carnations is a hazelly, or sandy loam, procured from a pasture.
1834 Mag. Bot. & Gardening 2 150/1 Fig-trees are most fruitful when planted in a strong hazelly cool loam.
1858 Friendly Compan. June 171 The turf had been pared off in places, and the richest, most beautiful loam revealed itself to the eye—just that fat, ‘hazelly’ soil..in which every garden-plant so luxuriates.
1955 Agric. Hist. Rev. 3 99 On sandy or hazelly land five hundred cartloads [of marl]..could be usefully spread.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hazellyadj.2
/ˈheɪzl̩i/, U.S. /ˈheɪz(ə)li/ 1. Of a hazel colour; reddish-brown or greenish-brown.
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1725 A. Philips To Honourable Miss Carteret 5 The Hazely lucid Eye, Whence Heart-winning Glances fly.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. (at Mould) The Moulds that are of a bright Chesnut or Hazelly Colour.
1839 Prize-ess. & Trans. Highland & Agric. Soc. Scotl. 12 122 The soil..is principally composed of a thin sandy moss, with a subsoil of hard hazelly-coloured gravel.
1913 J. F. Harris in Odd Volume 6 85 Phillys turned over in her bed and opened her hazelly eyes quite slowly.
1995 Evening Standard (Nexis) 29 Aug. 46 He has his dad's dark eyes—mine are a hazelly colour.
2010 L. Taylor Midnight Girls xvi. 177 He's got brown hair and hazelly eyes.
2. Chiefly literary. Covered or lined with hazels; full of hazels; = hazeled adj. 2. Now rare. Sc. National Dict. (at cited word) records this sense as still in use in Midlothian and Kirkcudbrightshire in 1956.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > edible nuts or nut-trees > [adjective] > of or pert to particular nut-trees > of or relating to hazel > full of hazels
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1793 R. Burns Poems (ed. 2) II. 169 Ye hazly shaws and briery dens.
1796 R. Burns in J. Johnson Scots Musical Museum V. 418 The burn, adown its hazelly path, Was rushing by the ruin'd wa'.
1833 Blackwood's Mag. 34 942 The Steep and hazelly banks of the Woodburn.
1835 J. Clare Rural Muse 158 From the hazelly wood.
1878 J. L. Robertson Poems 95 Hazelly glen, or leafy grove.
1908 O. Roberts Son of North xvi. 139 She hungers for her lowland home;..for the river with its hazelly banks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, January 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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