Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A thick mist or fine rain; a mist.
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- verb Present participle of
mizzle .
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Examples
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This was what is here called a mizzling rain, which fell from the ceiling or roof of the cavern, through the veins of the rock.
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This was what is here called a mizzling rain, which fell from the ceiling or roof of the cavern, through the veins of the rock.
Travels in England in 1782 Karl Philipp Moritz 1775
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We had no idea that there was anything spartan about this, sitting on the river bank in the mizzling rain and talking about essays, until we went to the Roundwood Inn for a black coffee and found a gang of friends from Dublin ordering colossal pies and roasts with pints of ale and cider.
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We had no idea that there was anything spartan about this, sitting on the river bank in the mizzling rain and talking about essays, until we went to the Roundwood Inn for a black coffee and found a gang of friends from Dublin ordering colossal pies and roasts with pints of ale and cider.
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The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon, the pallour of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.
The Queen of Gothic Strikes Again! Stephanie 2008
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The weather had changed overnight, when a backing wind brought a granite sky and a mizzling rain with it, and although it was now only a little after two o'clock in the afternoon, the pallour of a winter evening seemed to have closed upon the hills, cloaking them in mist.
Archive 2008-07-01 Stephanie 2008
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They had begun walking to town in a chill, mizzling rain.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Green they passed, and lushly green they stretched to the hills, whence mildly came the mizzling rain.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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Green they passed, and lushly green they stretched to the hills, whence mildly came the mizzling rain.
At Swim, Two Boys Jamie O’Neill 2002
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He walked in the same kind of weather the previous day had endured, a dreary mizzling rain and an all-pervading dampness, forgetting — which was quite typical — that he had a fortune on his back.
The First Man in Rome McCullough, Colleen, 1937- 1990
hernesheir commented on the word mizzling
"There was a mizzling rain at the time, but he said this was all to the good as it softened the paper: the quill -- he always used a goose quill for drawing -- then ran more kindly over the surface. C. Henry Warren writing about the English artist Thomas Hennell. The Countryman, Autumn 1957, p. 430.
November 2, 2009