Also 8 weezen, 9 weasen. Altered form of WIZEN a.
1765. Foote, Commissary, I. 10. His little weezen face as sharp as a razor.
1793. Charlotte Smith, Old Manor House, I. iii. (ed. 2), 53. However she may set her weazen face against it … she likes at the bottom of her heart a young fellow of spirit.
1820. W. Irving, Sketch Bk., Inn Kitchen, I. 317. A little swarthy Frenchman, with a dry weazen face.
1839. Dickens, Nickleby, lxii. A little, weazen, hump-backed man.
1877. W. S. Gilbert, Foggerty’s Fairy (1892), 76. A weazen little body, with over ladylike manners.
fig. 1901. Blackw. Mag., Oct., 577. Their policy was not weazen and anæmic.
b. Comb.: weazen-face, -faced adjs.
1794. Godwin, Caleb Williams, 37. He is but a poor, wenzen-face chicken of a gentleman.
1824. W. Irving, T. Trav., Bold Dragoon (1848), 30. A pale, weazen-faced fellow.
1841. Thackeray, Gt. Hoggarty Diamond, ii. A little weazen-faced old lady.
1844. Dickens, Mart. Chuz., xi. A little blear-eyed, weazen-faced, ancient man came creeping out.
