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Definition of Mazard
1. n. A kind of small black cherry.
2. n. The jaw; the head or skull.
3. v. t. To knock on the head.
Definition of Mazard
1. Noun. (archaic slang) Head; skull. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mazard
1. the head or face [n -S]
Medical Definition of Mazard
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Mazard
Literary usage of Mazard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary to the Works of William Shakespeare by Alexander Dyce (1902)
"1034—1044.; mazard, the head, Hml. vi 97; Oth. ii. 3. 155. mazes in the wanton
green—The quaint, MND ii. i. 99: " Several mazes of the kind here alluded to ..."
2. A Cruise Upon Wheels: The Chronicle of Some Autumn Wanderings Among the by Charles Allston Collins (1863)
"BATHER A LONG CHAPTER, CONTAINING MUCH IMPORTANT MATTER, AND SHOWING HOW THE
TRAVELLERS MADE A NEW START, HOW mazard WAS KIDNAPPED, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE ..."
3. Catalogue of the Roman Pottery in the Departments of Antiquities, British Museum by Henry Beauchamp Walters (1908)
"K 19. FRAGMENT of similar vase. Ht. in. mazard, Closures ... 3J in. Length in.
Bequeathed by Sir W. Temple, 1856. mazard ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit-trees of America: Or, the Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1900)
"Each of these individual plants differing from the original type (the mazard)
constitutes a new variety; though only a few, perhaps only one, ..."
5. Annual Report by Ohio State Board of Agriculture (1856)
"Mr. Elliott wanted to know if the mazard w'as unsuccessful throughout the section
near Cincinnati, whether something in the soil was not lacking. ..."
6. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"They . . . drank good ale in a brown mazard. .... The head ; the skull or
brain-box : same as mazard,. Are thy mad brains in thy mazer t Ford, Fancies, ..."
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