Word Meanings - WEAZENY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Somewhat weazen; shriveled. "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.

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• BAKING
  1. The act or process of cooking in an oven, or of drying and hardening by heat or cold. 2. The quantity baked at once; a batch; as, a baking of bread. Baking powder, a substitute for yeast, usually consisting of an acid, a carbonate, and a little
• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• WEAZENY
  Somewhat weazen; shriveled. "Weazeny, baked pears." Lowell.
• BAKEMEAT; BAKED-MEAT
  A pie; baked food. Gen. xl. 17. Shak.
• WEAZEN
  Thin; sharp; withered; wizened; as, a weazen face. They were weazen and shriveled. Dickens.
• BAKISTRE
  A baker. Chaucer.
• BAKERY
  1. The trade of a baker. 2. The place for baking bread; a bakehouse.
• BAKEN
  p. p. of Bake.
• BAKINGLY
  In a hot or baking manner.
• BAKE
  bacan; akin to D. bakken, OHG. bacchan, G. backen, Icel. & Sw. baca, Dan. bage, Gr. 1. To prepare, as food, by cooking in a dry heat, either in an oven or under coals, or on heated stone or metal; as, to bake bread, meat, apples. Note: Baking is
• BAKSHEESH; BAKSHISH
  See BACKSHEESH
• BAKER
  1. One whose business it is to bake bread, biscuit, etc. 2. A portable oven in which baking is done. A baker's dozen, thirteen. -- Baker foot, a distorted foot. Jer. Taylor. -- Baker's itch, a rash on the back of the hand, caused
• BAKEHOUSE
  A house for baking; a bakery.
• SHRIVEL
  To draw, or be drawn, into wrinkles; to shrink, and form corrugations; as, a leaf shriveles in the hot sun; the skin shrivels with age; -- often with up. (more info) shrink; cf. dial. AS. screpa to pine away, Norw. skrypa to waste, skryp, skryv,
• BAKER-LEGGED
  Having legs that bend inward at the knees.
• HARDBAKE
  A sweetmeat of boiled brown sugar or molasses made with almonds, and flavored with orange or lemon juice, etc. Thackeray.
• HAWEBAKE
  Probably, the baked berry of the hawthorn tree, that is, coarse fare. See 1st Haw, 2. Chaucer.
• DOUGH-BAKED
  Imperfectly baked; hence, not brought to perfection; unfinished; also, of weak or dull understanding. Halliwell.
• CLAMBAKE
  The backing or steaming of clams on heated stones, between layers of seaweed; hence, a picnic party, gathered on such an occasion.