ppl. a. = WIZENED ppl. a.

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1842.  Thackeray, Sultan Stork, Wks. 1900, V. 739. The old woman blushed as far as her weazened old face could blush.

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1862.  Sala, Seven Sons, III. iv. 65. Jockeys … dwindled from strong men into little weazened brats of children.

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1879.  J. Payn, Under One Roof, I. i. 14. A small grey man, frail of limb, somewhat weazened as to face, though comely.

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1883.  Chamb. Jrnl., 12 May, 289/2. Weazened black and tan terriers.

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  transf.  1854.  Thackeray, Newcomes, I. xi. 115. Old and weazened as that piano is.

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1882.  Constance F. Woolson, Anne, i. 22. The small face showed the most profound, almost weazened, solicitude.

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