Wizen : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Wizen	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for Wizen
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [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 grey hair" Synonym(s): shriveled, shrivelled, shrunken, withered, wizen, wizened
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 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.]