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Mizzling

Mizzle \Miz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mizzling.] [See Misle, and cf. Mistle.]

  1. To rain in very fine drops; to drizzle.
    --Spenser.

  2. To take one's self off; to go. [Slang]

    As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled.
    --Epigram, quoted by Wright.

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mizzling

vb. (present participle of mizzle English)

Usage examples of "mizzling".

Gaius Marius, looking closely into the glazed faces of the men wearing purple-bordered togas all around him in that dreary, mizzling hour after dawn.

Presently in the night came a mizzling rain, and far among the hills a cloud brake open, and the mill-pond flowed over and under, and the dam crumbled away, and the Mill shook, and the whole river ran roaring through the garden.

The false hope of the noonday sun faded, fine rain mizzling down like exhausted tears.

It was cold and wet, I remember, a nasty blowing mizzling rain that went right through whatever you wore.

He was the only man in all of Dublin I saw in the downpours and drizzles who stood by the hour alone with the drench mizzling his ears, threading his ash-red hair, plastering it over his skull, rivuleting his eyebrows, and washing over the coal-black insect lenses of the glasses on his rain-pearled nose.

She stumbled along with the mizzling rain driving in her face, caring little where she went and careless of the fact that eleven long miles lay between her and her bedroom at Jamaica Inn.