wizzled

After all, there was something rather pitiful in the nature of the child who so disliked any face that was "wizzled," but loved those faces that were fair and smooth.

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

Vanderwiller, who seemed always to need a shave, and whose face, like that of Margaret's grandfather, was "wizzled."

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr

He always seemed to me like a little wizzled-up, miserly old man.

Little Ferns For Fanny's Little Friends Fanny Fern

I recognize many Maine Lingo words that I never hear in the Middle West as words current when I was growing up in central Massachusetts about the time of WWI, for instance: dropped eggs (on toast, of course), wizzled up (old ladies and old apples), nicely and poorly as in "Well, how are you?"

VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol IX No 3 1983

I don't like old, wizzled-up folks, I don't, now I tell ye! "

Nan Sherwood at Pine Camp or, the Old Lumberman's Secret Annie Roe Carr