hazel

• hazle (archaic)

From Middle English hasel, from Old English hæsl (“hazel, shrub”), from Proto-West Germanic *hasl, from Proto-Germanic *haslaz (“hazel”), from Proto-Indo-European *kóslos (“hazel”). Cognate with Dutch hazelaar (“hazel”), German Hasel (“hazel”), Swedish hassel (“hazel”), Latin corulus, corylus (“hazel-tree, hazelwood”), Irish coll (“hazel”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈheɪzəl/

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• Rhymes: -eɪzəl

hazel (usually uncountable, plural hazels)

1. (countable) A tree or shrub of the genus Corylus, bearing edible nuts called hazelnuts or filberts.
   • 1895, S. R. Crockett, A Cry Across the Black Water:

     The green turf was velvet underfoot. The blackbirds fluted in the hazels there.

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 273:

     Have a tree or two the witches particularly like, such as the alder, larch, cypress and hemlock; then, to counteract any possible evil effects, there must be a holly, yew, hazel, elder, mountain ash or juniper.

2. (countable) The nut of the hazel tree.
3. (uncountable) The wood of a hazelnut tree.
4. (countable and uncountable) A greenish-brown colour, the colour of a ripe hazelnut.

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5. (mining, countable) Freestone.^[1]

• c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene i], page 216, column 2:

  Kate like the hazle twig / Is ſtraight, and ſlender, and as browne in hue / As hazle nuts, and ſweeter then the kernels: […]

• (nut): filbert, hazelnut

hazel (comparative more hazel or (rare) hazeler, superlative most hazel or (rare) hazelest)

1. Of a greenish-brown colour. (often used to refer to eye colour)
   • 1956 January 7, James L. Collings, “Syndicates: Oh Marie! Whatta Gal and Whatta Reporter”, in Robert U[tting] Brown, editor, Editor & Publisher, volume 89, number 1, New York, N.Y.: Editor & Publisher Co., Inc., →ISSN, page 40, column 1:

     As she grew up and her hazel eyes became hazeler and her dark hair darker and her white skin whiter, and her form a sigh on every boy’s lips, she concentrated on one dream.

   • 1986, Robyn Donald, chapter 4, in A Willing Surrender, London: Mills & Boon Limited, →ISBN, page 81:

     The shrewd eyes, more hazel than her son’s but with the same straight brows, were fixed on Clary’s face.

   • 1996, Adryan Russ, Doug Haverty, “Act Two”, in Inside Out, New York, N.Y.: Samuel French, Inc., →ISBN, page 58:

     SAGE: Don’t my eyes look hazeler? (or: periwinkler) / CHLO: (as GARTH) Yes. / SAGE: You said you loved my hazel eyes. (or: periwinkle) Don’t you love them more hazely? (or: periwinkly)

   • 2005, Sharon Smith, chapter 2, in Into the Dark, Nederland, Tex.: Yellow Rose Books, →ISBN, page 12:

     The drummer’s eyes took the small woman in slowly, starting with her face, down to her feet and then back up into the hazelest eyes she’d ever seen.

   • 2005 December, Doug Brod, “Burning Sensation”, in Sia Michel, editor, Spin, volume 21, number 12, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, page 73, column 2:

     What’s that line on “Hazel Eyes”: “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazeler”? [Justin Hawkins:] “I’ve never seen a set of eyes more hazelerer.”

   • 2011, Margaret Fiske, “Sense & Circuitry: Cyberth 1813”, in Peter Archer, Jennifer Lawler, editors, Bad Austen: The Worst Stories Jane Never Wrote, Avon, Mass.: Adams Media, F+W Media, Inc., →ISBN, part 2 (If Jane Could See Us Now), page 96:

     Doolittle had the hazelest eyeballs, the winsomest spinal pelt.

   • 2012 March 8, Francine J. Colangelo, chapter 10, in Marah Hein: The Legend of a Viking Woman, Bloomington, Ind.: Balboa Press, Hay House, →ISBN, page 84:

     His eyes were somewhere indefinite between green and hazel. Sometimes appearing hazeler or greener depending on how the light flickered on them.

   • 2017 April 11, Becky Albertalli, chapter 16, in The Upside of Unrequited, New York, N.Y.: Balzer + Bray, HarperCollins Publishers, →ISBN, page 178:

     And now I should probably say something, but that would involve words, and WHAT EVEN ARE WORDS, and he’s looking at me with the hazelest eyes and the softest, most upturned mouth.

• hazel-eyed

• lamb's tails
• sweet gum
• Appendix:Colors

• Zahlé, hazle

From Middle Dutch hasel, from Old Dutch *hasal, from Proto-West Germanic *hasl.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɦaː.zəl/

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• Hyphenation: ha‧zel

hazel m (plural hazels)

1. (rare, dated, literary) hazel
   • 1822, Jacob Geel, Proeven eener navolging van de Lady of the Lake van Walter Scott, vol. 1, in Magazijn voor Wetenschappen, Kunsten en Letteren, vol. 2, page 11.

     Het hert dronk ’s avonds aan de kreek, / Waar ’t maanlicht ſpeelt in Monans beek: / En vleit zich, tot de morgen keer’, / In diepen ſchaâuw van hazels nêer;

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   • 1894, De Sociale gids. Socialistisch tijdschrift voor Noord- en Zuid-Nederland, page 322:

     —Mijn oom, de tuinman, zegt, dat 't juist niet zacht opvolgend van kleur moet zijn, maar scherp tegenovergesteld aan elkander en daarom zwarte hazels nevens witte acers, om den ander . . . . dat noemt hij »gemengde« stijl.

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   • 1924 August 27, Kees van Bruggen, "Het bad aan de Blauwe Zee. Clytemnestra, Klein Duimpje en de laatsten der Azteken", Algemeen Handelsblad (evening edition, part 2), vol. 97, no. 31420, page 5.

     Tusschen elzen en hazels in allerlei fatsoen slingeren zich de druiven, reeds zwaar om te oogsten, het wachten is op een beetje aanhoudende zon, anders wordt de wijn te schraal.

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   • 1925 February 22, Reinder Jakobus de Stoppelaar, "De Hazelaar", Het Vaderland (morning edition), B, page 1.

     Als mijn hazels bloeien bereid ik mij zelven het genoegen van de struiken te schudden tot het gouden stof op en wegdwarrelt en neervalt met gele stippeling op mijn jas, mijn pet, mijn handen.

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   Synonym: hazelaar

• hazelaar
• hazelhoen
• hazelmuis
• hazelnoot
• hazelroede
• hazelskink
• hazelworm
• hazelwortel

• jadel

Inherited from Latin facere. Compare Spanish hacer.

• IPA^(key): [haˈðel]

hazel

1. to do, to make

"Esta sala de tanta estoria molinera es gastá ogañu pa hazel ritus paganus, pos se vein un pentagrama canteau pabaxu conas letras ebreas enas cincu puntas pintau ena paré i ala isquierda un oju de Oru." Cúyu pan esgarras? - "El molinu las Pilas dela Conquista la Sierra"