mazard
Pronunciations
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/ˈmæzə(ɹ)d/
Noun
Head; skull.
Usage- Archaic
- Slang
- Examples
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Why ee'n ſo: and now my Lady Wormes, / Chapleſſe, and knockt about the Mazard with a Sextons Spade;
More examples (1)
This roused the tinker's choler, already provoked at Tugwell's amorous freedom with his doxy, and he gave him a click in the mazard. Tugwell had not been used tamely to receive a kick or a cuff; he, therefore, gave the tinker a rejoinder, […]
For the poor things [worshippers] would have other idols in place of those he [the iconoclast] thwacketh upon the mazzard and dispelleth.
Noun
A kind of small black cherry.
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Word forms
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