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ransparency in the air; hence, figuratively, obscurity; dimness. O'er the sky The silvery haze of summer drawn. Tennyson. Above the world's uncertain haze. Keble.

eous taste; the filbert. The American species are C. Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and C. rostrata. See Filbert. Gray.

Destitute of haze. Tyndall.

Of the color of the hazelnut; of a light brown. Mortimer.

The nut of the hazel. Shak.

The asarabacca.

A kind of Oriental lyric, and usually erotic, poetry, written in recurring rhymes.

The wych-elm.

The wych-elm; -- so called because its leaves are like those of the hazel.

A valuable furniture wood from India and Ceylon, of a hazel- brown color, with black stripes, very hard in texture. It is a species of ebony, and is obtained from the Diospyros qusesita. Called also Coromandel wood.

A large roundish variety of the cultivated hazelnut.

That divines; for divining. Divining rod, a rod, commonly of witch hazel, with forked branches, used by those who pretend to discover water or metals under ground.

cating motion. It will be rain to-night. Let it come down. Shak. I sit me down beside the hazel grove. Tennyson. And that drags down his life. Tennyson. There is not a more melancholy object in the learned world than a man who has written himself down. Addison. The French . . . shone down [i. e., outshone] the English.…

The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

A kind of haze in the air, causing things to appear different from what they really are. The air filled with a strange, pale glamour that seemed to lie over the broad valley. W. Black.

A genus of plants which includes the witch-hazel (Hamamelis Virginica), a preparation of which is used medicinally.

anuary, and February, blowing from the interior or Sahara. It is usually accompanied by a haze which obscures the sun.

See Haze, v. t.

Thick with haze; somewhat obscured with haze; not clear or transparent. "A tender, hazy brightness." Wordsworth.

Limber; supple; flexible; lithe; lithesome. Straight, but as lissome as a hazel wand. Tennyson.