hazle
See also: Hazle
English
Noun
hazle (plural hazles)
- Archaic form of hazel.
- c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 216, column 2:
- Kate like the hazle twig / Is ſtraight, and ſlender, and as browne in hue / As hazle nuts, and ſweeter then the kernels: […]
Adjective
hazle (comparative more hazle, superlative most hazle)
- Archaic form of hazel.
- 1815 December (indicated as 1816), [Jane Austen], chapter VII, in Emma: […], volume III, London: […] [Charles Roworth and James Moyes] for John Murray, →OCLC, page 126:
- She must be very lively, and have hazle eyes. I care for nothing else.
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