mazard
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- verb To kill or stun by a blow on the skull; brain.
- noun The head; the skull.
- noun A wild cherry of Europe.
Examples
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Mazards! how the diction of our orator is enriched from the vocabulary of Shakspeare! the word head, instead of being changed for a more general term, is here brought distinctly to the eye by the term mazard, or face, which is more appropriate to his majesty's profile than the word skull or head.
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For the rest, he never thought about thinking, or felt about feeling; and had no ambition whatsoever beyond pleasing his father and mother, getting by honest means the maximum of “red quarrenders” and mazard cherries, and going to sea when he was big enough.
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` Oh, no, ain't you, 'says I; ` what do you want to look so green about the mazard for, then?' says I. ` Oh, that's nothing, 'says he; ` reading late at night, that's what that is,' says he.
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He was not tall enough to address his battering-ram at the face of the Corporal, or he might have done mischief to the mazard of the veteran.
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Let me go, sir, or I'll knock you o'er the mazard.
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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.
Note
The 'cherry' sense of the word 'mazard' may come from the French 'merise', 'a wild cherry'; the 'head' sense is probably from French 'mazer', the head being compared to a large goblet.
