4 definitions found
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wizen \Wiz"en\, a.
Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. --Dickens.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Wizen \Wiz"en\, n.
The weasand. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.]
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
wizen
adj : 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 gray hair" [syn: {shriveled}, {shrivelled},
{shrunken}, {withered}, {wizened}]
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