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hazel-nut|ˈheɪz(ə)lnʌt| Forms: see hazel and nut. [OE. hæselhnutu = Du. hazelnoot, LG. haselnot, hasselnöt, OHG. hasalnuz, mod.G. haselnusz.] The nut of the hazel, a well-known fruit.
c725Corpus Gloss. 33 Abelena, haeselhnutu. c1050Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 345/15 Abellana, haslhnutu. c1350Will. Palerne 1811 Hasel-notes, & oþer fruit..þat in forest growen. c1400Mandeville (Roxb.) xvii. 79 Dyamaundes..of þe mykilnes of hesill nuttes. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 95 b, Among Nuttes, is also..the Hasell Nuttes, a kinde whereof is the Filberte. 1870Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 207 The common hazel nut yields an oil most valuable for the delicate machinery of watches. b. attrib. and Comb., as hazel-nut oil, hazel-nut tree, etc.
c1050Gloss. in Wr.-Wülcker 457/14 Nuculeus, siue nucleus, hæslhnute cyrnel. 1762W. Hudson Flora Anglica, Corylus stipulis ovatis, etc., common Hazel-nut-tree. 1884Cassell's Dict. Cookery 310 Hazel-nut Cakes. 1886Syd. Soc. Lex., Hazel nut oil..is pale yellow..and is not a drying oil. |