maze2 (maz)

A variant of mease2, 1. mazedne t (mā'zed-nes), n. [ Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 1005. mazefult (māz'fül), a. [ mazel , n., + -ful .] Causing amazement; wonderful. Spenser , Epi- thalami on, 1. 190. mazelint, n. Same as maslin1 . mazer (ma'zer), n. [Early mod. E. also maser ; masere , a bowl, orig. of maple- wood, prob. not mæser , * maser , maple (or other spotted or mottled wood), which is found only in deriv. adj. * mæseren , occurring once erroneously written mæsen ("vi. mæsene sceala," "6 maple ve els'), and perhaps in comp. Maserfeld , a local name, but from the cognate Icel. mösurr , a maple-tree, maple-wood (mö- surr- boll i , a maple bowl, mösurr - skāl , a maple ve el: see skoal ), = MLG. maser , a maple-tree, = OHG. masar , MHG. G. maser , a knur or knob on a tree, a knot or spot in maple and other wood, MHG. also a bowl of spotted or mottled wood (> OF. mazre , madre , spotted or mot- tled wood (> OF. (and F.) madré , spotted, mot- tled), and mazer in , a drinking-ve el: see mazer in ); from the noun seen in OD. * mase , masche , maesche = MLG. mase = OHG. māsā, MHG. mase , G. mase , a spot, whence also ult. E. measles.] 14. Hard mottled wood, under- stood to be maple, formerly used in making the bowls or goblets hence called mazers . Off lanycolle thou shall prove, That is a cuppe to my behove, Off maser it is ful clene. MS . Cantab. Ff. v. 48, f. 50. ( Hall i well .) 2. A bowl or large drinking-cup without a foot, of maple or other hard wood, od, and often richly decorated with carving and mounted with silver bowls entirely of metal. A number of mazers are pre or other metal. In later use the term was applied to served in England, dating from different epochs from the thirteenth to the eighteenth century. They toke away the sylver ve ell, And all that they myght get, Peces, masars , and spones Wolde they non forgete. IMG:content-0359.png:[blocks in formation] ously compared to a bowl or goblet.] 1. A bowl; a mazer. They... drank good ale in a brown mazard. Aubrey, Misc., p. 213. ( Davies.) An instance of this occurs in connexion with St. Edmund's Church at Salisbury, "where they have digged up an old bishop out of his grave, and have made a mazzard of his scull, and his bones are in an apo the car yes shop." Athenœum, No. 3071, p. 303. 21. The head; the skull. Chaple , and knocked about the mazzard with a sexton's spade. Shak., Hamlet, v. 1. 97. I had a mazzard , I remember, so well lined in the inside with my brain, it stood me in better stead than a double headpiece. Middle ton , Father Hubbard's Tales. IMG:content-0360.png:[blocks in formation] There was neither mazer - dish nor standing-cup upon the little table, at the elbow of his [the abbot's] huge chair of state. Scott , Monastery. mazerint, mazer i net (maz'e-rin), n. [Also mazarin ; ME., mazer in , mazelin , madelin , maderin (ML. scyphus mazer in us), a drinking bowl of wood, mazre mazre, madre, spotted wood: see mazer .] A drinking-ve el; a porringer. One of Her Majesty's Knurl'd Dishes, weight 52 Ounces, and one Silver Mazerine , Weight 20 Ounces, both engrav'd with His late Majesty's Arms. Quoted in Ashton's Social Life in Reign of Queen Anne, [I. 183. tree.