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mazard

American  
[maz-erd] / ˈmæz ərd /

noun

  1. Archaic.

    1. head.

    2. face.

  2. Obsolete. a mazer.


mazard British  
/ ˈmæzəd /

noun

  1. an obsolete word for the head skull

  2. another word for mazer

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

Etymology

Origin of mazard

First recorded in 1595–1605; maz(er) + -ard

Example Sentences

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Frank Hague's corrupt Jersey gang took a crushing blow in the mazard; the wreckage of Tammany Hall is strewn over Manhattan.

From Time Magazine Archive

But, bless you, he was glum about the mazard, he was.”

From My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life by Reed, Talbot Baines

Why, e'en so: and now my Lady Worm's; chapless, and knocked about the mazard with a sexton's spade: here's fine revolution, an we had the trick to see't.

From Hamlet by Shakespeare, William

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