Word Meanings - WEAZEN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.

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• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• WEAZENY
  Somewhat weazen; shriveled. "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.
• WIZENED
  Dried; shriveled; withered; shrunken; weazen; as, a wizened old man.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• WITHER-WRUNG
  Injured or hurt in the withers, as a horse.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• WITHERED
  Faded; dried up; shriveled; wilted; wasted; wasted away. -- With"ered*ness, n. Bp. Hall.
• WITHERS
  The ridge between the shoulder bones of a horse, at the base of the neck. See Illust. of Horse. Let the galled jade wince; our withers are unwrung. Shak. (more info) strain in drawing a load; fr. OE. wither resistance, AS. withre, fr.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• WITHERNAM
  A second or reciprocal distress of other goods in lieu of goods which were taken by a first distress and have been eloigned; a taking by way of reprisal; -- chiefly used in the expression capias in withernam, which is the name of a writ used in
• WEAZEN
  Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.
• WITHER
  Weather, v. & n.); or cf. G. verwittern to decay, to be weather- 1. To fade; to lose freshness; to become sapless; to become sapless; to dry or shrivel up. Shall he hot pull up the roots thereof, and cut off the fruit thereof, that it wither Ezek.
• SHARP-CUT
  Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well- defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
• SHARPSAW
  The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.
• DICKENS
  The devil. I can not tell what the dickens his name is. Shak.
• WITHERBAND
  A piece of iron in a saddle near a horse's withers, to strengthen the bow.
• WITHERING
  Tending to wither; causing to shrink or fade. -- With"er*ing*ly, adv.
• WIZEN-FACED
  Having a shriveled, thin, withered face.
• SHARPEN
  To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
• SHARP
  scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies