mazard

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.

Tales and Novels — Volume 04 Maria Edgeworth 1808

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.

Westward Ho! 2007

` 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.

My Friend Smith A Story of School and City Life Talbot Baines Reed 1872

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.

The Sword and the Distaff: Or, "Fair, Fat, and Forty." A Story of the South, at the Close of the Revolution by the Author of "The Partisan," "Mellichampe," "Katharine Walton," Etc. Etc. 1852

For the rest, Amyas 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.

Daily Thoughts selected from the writings of Charles Kingsley by his wife Charles Kingsley 1847

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.

Westward Ho!, or, the voyages and adventures of Sir Amyas Leigh, Knight, of Burrough, in the county of Devon, in the reign of her most glorious majesty Queen Elizabeth Charles Kingsley 1847

They lived sluttishly in poor houses, where they eat a great deal of beef and mutton, and drank good ale in a brown mazard; and their very kings were but a sort of farmers.

Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects John Aubrey 1661

Country, _Shorthose_, you were an arrant fool, a dull cold coxcombe, here every Tavern teaches you, the pint pot has so belaboured you with wit, your brave acquaintance that gives you Ale, so fortified your mazard, that now there's no talking to you.

Wit Without Money The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Francis Beaumont 1600

Let me go, sir, or I'll knock you o'er the mazard.

Othello William Shakespeare 1590

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.

Hamlet William Shakespeare 1590