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wizen |
4 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wizen \Wiz"en\, a. Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. --Dickens. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wizen \Wiz"en\, n. The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wizen \Wiz"en\, v. i. [OE. wisenen AS wisnian akin to weornian to decay, OHG. wesan?n to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel. visna to wither, Sw vissna Dan. visne, and probably to L. virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf {Virus}.] To wither; to dry. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: wizen adj : lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness; "the old woman's shriveled skin"; "he looked shriveled and ill"; "a shrunken old man"; "a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie; "he did well despite his withered arm"; "a wizened little man with frizzy gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled}, {shrunken}, {withered}, {wizened}]
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