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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

WIZEN, v.i. To wither; to dry. [Local.]

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: 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 grey hair" [syn: shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened]

Merriam Webster's

I. verb (wizened; wizening) Etymology: Middle English wisenen, from Old English wisnian; akin to Old High German wesan?n to wither, Lithuanian vysti Date: before 12th century intransitive verb to become dry, shrunken, and wrinkled often as a result of aging or of failing vitality transitive verb to cause to wizen <a face wizened by age> II. adjective Etymology: alteration of wizened Date: 1786 that is wizened

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wizen Wiz"en, a. Wizened; thin; weazen; withered. A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. --Dickens.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Wizen Wiz"en, n. The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.]

Moby Thesaurus

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