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Hazel   /hˈeɪzəl/   Listen
noun
Hazel  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert. The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata. See Filbert.
2.
A miner's name for freestone.
Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
Hazel grouse (Zool.), a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.


adjective
Hazel  adj.  
1.
Consisting of hazels, or of the wood of the hazel; pertaining to, or derived from, the hazel; as, a hazel wand. "I sit me down beside the hazel grove."
2.
Of a light brown color, like the hazelnut. "Thou hast hazel eyes."





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... coral treasures in hips and haws, but whose best winter delight lay in its utter solitude and leafless repose. If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path. Far and wide, on each side, there were only fields, where no cattle now browsed; and the little brown birds, which stirred occasionally in the hedge, looked ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison
... be artfully propped up, but Lucian found it very comfortable after the hard forms. When tea was over he went out and strolled in the garden and orchards, and looked over the stile down into the brake, where foxgloves and bracken and broom mingled with the hazel undergrowth, where he knew of secret glades and untracked recesses, deep in the woven green, the cabinets for many years of his lonely meditations. Every path about his home, every field and hedgerow had dear and friendly memories for him; and ...
— The Hill of Dreams • Arthur Machen
... Grace, "but they were all interesting. The girl who owned the car was a Miss McCarthy, a true Irish colleen and awfully witty. She and Nora O'Malley swore friendship on sight. Then there was a stout girl whose nickname was 'Buster,' and a quiet, brown-eyed girl named Hazel Holland. They write to me occasionally and they are all going to Overton when they have finished ...
— Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College • Jessie Graham Flower
... Hazel Grove, at the centre of the bow, Slocum's Twelfth Corps held the line, Geary's division joining on to Couch, and Williams on the right. From Slocum's right to the extreme right of the army, the ...
— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge
... of thirty-six, with florid cheeks and flashing hazel eyes, had just placed before her husband another jug, filled with foaming beer, and she nodded now to her Andy with a smile, showing two rows of ...
— Andreas Hofer • Lousia Muhlbach


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