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▪ I. drizzle, n.1|ˈdrɪz(ə)l|
[goes with drizzle v.]
Small, fine, spray-like rain.
1554in Harington Nugæ Ant. 93 To shunne Bleak winters drizzle. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 58 The Condensation of it, from a Cloud, or from a Mist, Rain, Drizle. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) vi. iii, A mist which successively becomes a mizzle, a drizzle, a shower, a rain, a torrent. 1853C. Brontë Villette xxi, It rained a November drizzle.
▪ II. drizzle, n.2
A name of the young ling (fish).
1769Pennant Zool. (1776) III. 198 (Jod.) It is not reckoned a sizeable fish, and consequently not entitled to the bounty..Such are called drizzles and are in season all summer.
▪ III. drizzle, v.|ˈdrɪz(ə)l|
Also 6 drysel, 6–7 drissel, 6–8 drizle, dris(s)le, 7 driz(z)el.
[Not known before 16th c. Origin obscure: possibly dim. and freq. of rare ME. drese, OE. dréosan to fall; with 16th c. dryseling cf. drysning.]
1. intr. To rain in very fine, dense, spray-like drops: said of the weather, the day, and impers.; to fall, as rain, in fine drops.
1566[see drizzling ppl. a. b]. 1590Marlowe Edw. II, Wks. (Rtldg.) 199/2 These tears, that drizzle from mine eyes. 1637G. Daniel Genius of this Ile 7 Nor ever did the winter drissle here. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. v. ii, The morning is none of the comfortablest: raw; it is even drizzling a little. 1892Zangwill Big Bow Myst. 89 A thin rain drizzled languidly.
fig.1822Shelley Faust ii. 187 The magic notes, like spark on spark, Drizzle, whistling through the dark.
†2. trans. To shed in fine spray-like drops. Obs.
1543[see drizzling vbl. n. below]. 1584Lyly Campaspe iii. iii, Danae, into whose prison Jupiter drizled a golden showre. 1599Shakes. Much Ado iii. iii. 111 Stand thee close then vnder this penthouse, for it drissels raine. 1601― Jul. C. ii. ii. 21 Fierce fiery Warriours fight vpon the Clouds..Which drizel'd blood vpon the Capitoll. 1642Quarles Div. Poems, Elegie Dr. Wilson i, I cannot mizzle: My fluent brains are too severe to drizzle Sleight drops.
3. To sprinkle or wet with minute drops. rare.
1810Scott Lady of L. iv. v, Drizzled by the ceaseless spray, The wizard waits. 1869Blackmore Lorna D. iii, The little stubby trees..were drizzled with a mess of wet.
4. intr. To pick the gold thread out of tassels or embroideries into which it was woven; so drizzler, drizzling (also attrib.).
1884tr. Bauer's Posthumous Mem. II. i. 117 Prince Leopold..diligently and indefatigably drizzled. Ibid. 118 This ‘drizzling’..was invented in Paris..during the reign of King Louis XVI... The most fashionable ladies of the court felt no compunction in asking the gentlemen of their acquaintance for cast-off gold and silver epaulettes. 1896Godey's Mag. Feb. 177/2 Drizzling—which was nothing more or less than picking the gold thread out of old gold tassels, braid, [etc.]. Ibid. 178/1 One of the Countess's principal grievances against the Prince seems to have been that he was a confirmed drizzler; she says Leopold would sit by her hour after hour diligently and indefatigably drizzling... The tall Prince..bending over his elegant drizzling-box of tortoise-shell. 1969E. H. Pinto Treen 310 The value of the material in gold lace led to later destruction of much of it for reclamation of the gold. In France, in the late 18th century, parfilage or unravelling became a social and profitable pastime. Early in the 19th century, the destructive addiction came to England under the name of drizzling.
Hence ˈdrizzled ppl. a., shed in spray-like drops; ˈdrizzling vbl. n. (in quot. 1543, concr.); (see also sense 4 above).
1543Bale Yet a Course, &c. 97 (T.) The draffysh declaracyons of my lorde Boner, with such other dirty dryselings of Antichrist. 1590Shakes. Com. Err. v. i. 312 Sap-consuming Winters drizled snow. 1615Crooke Body of Man 499 They..auoid their water by drisling or drops. 1856T. Aird Poet. Wks. 342 A bloody drizzled shower.
Add:5. Cookery. trans. To pour or let fall in trickles over the surface of food; also, to cover in this way. Also intr. of the coating: to run in trickles.
1958Good Housek. Cake Bk. 42/2 While mixture is still warm, spoon over top of cake, letting it drizzle down the sides. 1961in Webster s.v., Drizzle, to shed or let fall in minute drops or particles. 1971Sunday Express (Johannesburg) 28 Mar. (Home Jrnl.) 9/4 When done, dust with icing sugar or drizzle a little water icing on the crosses. 1977C. McCullough Thorn Birds xvii. 407 Meggie beat green food coloring into a bowl of runny icing and began to drizzle it over already baked fir trees. 1979Sunset (Desert ed.) Apr. 174/3 For a finale, serve a creamy molded dessert drizzled with port wine and sweetened with strawberries. 1984Freetime Autumn 3/1 Fill it with scoops of ice cream, drizzle with hot chocolate, butterscotch or jam sauce. |