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▪ I. mazer, n. Obs. exc. Hist.|ˈmeɪzə(r)|
Forms: 3– mazer, 4–9 maser. Also 2–3 mazere, 4 mazre, 4–5 maseer(e, 5 mausure, masour, masowyr, 5–6 masar, masere, 6 meyser, mas(s)or, masser, masure, mazur, mazare, 6–7 mazor, mazar.
[a. OF. masere, masre (masdre, madre, whence F. madré veined, variegated) used in senses 1 and 2; of Teut. origin: cf. OHG. masar excrescence on a tree (glossing L. tuber, nodus), MHG. maser excrescence on a tree, maple, drinking cup, mod.G. maser markings in wood; MDu. maeser maple; ON. mǫsur-r maple (:—*masur-oz).
The Teut. root *mas-, *mæ̂s-, expressing the notion of ‘spot’ or ‘excrescence’, is found also in OHG. mâsa (MHG. mâse) cicatrix, spot on the body, early mod.Du. mase, maese spot, mesh (Du. maas mesh, maashout maplewood); Norw. dial. masa to grain, paint in imitation of the grain of wood; and the words cited s.v. measle.
The Welsh masarn maple, sycamore, is certainly from English, though the evidence of the use of mazer in this sense in Eng. is somewhat scanty.]
1. A hard wood (? properly maple; but cf. quot. c 1500 in b) used as a material for drinking cups.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 163 Ðe caliz [is] of tin; and hire [the priest's concubine's] nap of mazere. 1419Will of Mounford (Somerset Ho.), Ciphum de mazer legatum cum argento. 1593–1656Rites & Mon. Ch. Durh. (Surtees 1903) 80 The goodly Cup called St Beedes Bowl, the outside whereof was of black Mazer.
†b. The tree yielding this wood. Obs. rare.
14..Metr. Voc. in Wr.-Wülcker 629 [In list of trees] Iuniparus, labruscaque, mirra, jenupyrtre wyld vyne masere. 1483Cath. Angl. 229/2 A Maser, cantarus, murra; murreus; murpis (A. murrus) Arbor est. c1500in Turner Dom. Archit. I. 144 note, Take many rype walenottes and water hem a while, and put hem in a moiste pytt, and hile hem, and ther shalbe grawe therof a grett stoke that we calle masere. 1547Salesbury Welsh Dict., Masarn, Masar.
2. A bowl, drinking-cup, or goblet without a foot, originally made of ‘mazer’ wood, often richly carved or ornamented and mounted with silver and gold or other metal. Often applied to bowls entirely of metal or other material.
1311in Archæol. (1887) L. i. 176, j mazer cum pede argenteo. c1330R. Brunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11418 He gaf..Somme masers of riche pris. 1420E.E. Wills (1882) 46 Also .i. bord mausure with a bond of seluer. 1424Ibid. 56, I wull he haue my maser of a vine rote. 1530Burgh Rec. Edinb. (1871) II. 39 A masser of siluer ourgilt. 1555W. Watreman Fardle Facions ii. ix. 193 Of the Skulles of the heades thus slaine, thei [Scithians] make masures to drincke in. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Aug. 26 A mazer ywrought of the Maple warre. 1645Evelyn Diary 25 Jan., They shew'd us..mazers of beaten and solid gold set with diamonds, rubies, and emeralds. 1697Dryden Virgil (1721) I. Ded. 13 One of his Shepherds describes a Bowl, or Mazer, curiously carved. 1814Scott Ld. of Isles v. xxxiv, ‘Bring here’, he said, ‘the mazers four’. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. ix. 488 The royal Mazer, or convivial bowl.
fig.1629Z. Boyd Last Battell 1123 Take now the Cuppe of Saluation, the great Mazer of his mercie.
†3. The head; = mazard n.1 2. Obs.
1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 77 b, Being imagined in your own braynsicke mazer. a1652Brome Love-sick Court iv. iii, So wilt thou whilst thou canst lift thy bottle To that old Mazer.
b. transf. A helmet.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 614 Hardy Lælius..All in gilt armour, on his glistring Mazor A stately plume, of Orange mixt with Azur.
4. attrib. and Comb.: † mazer-band, the silver binding of a mazer; mazer bowl, cup, -dish = 2; † mazer tree = 1 b; mazer wood, = sense 1.
1441in Archæol. (1887) L. i. 187 Unum *maserband.
1562–3Ibid. 193 A *masar bole wth a border of sylver and gilt abowt ytt. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 49. 1686–7 Aubrey Rem. Gentilism & Judaism (1881) 35 A Mazar-bowle of maple (Gossips bowle) full of beer.
1434E.E. Wills (1882) 101 A litil *maser coppe.
1656Tradescant Mus. Tradesc. 52 *Mazer dishes.
c1475Sqr. Lowe Degre 689 She..closed hym in a *maser-tre. 1595Duncan App. Etymol. (E.D.S.) 66 Acer, the maser tree.
1656Tradescant Mus. Tradesc. 44 The plyable *Mazer wood, being warmed in water will work to any form.
Hence † mazer v. trans., = mazard v.
1596Nashe Saffron-Walden V 4 He terrefies mee with insulting ‘hee was Tom Burwels the Fencers Scholler, and that he will squeaze and mazer me whensoeuer he met me’.
▪ II. mazer, mazerd
obs. ff. mazard n.2 and n.1 |