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Definition of Hizzing
1. hizz [v] - See also: hizz
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hizzing
Literary usage of Hizzing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Í, 89. ingly Lear speaks of "red burning spits, hizzing; but recourse is still
bad to the wooden spit, when ancient hospitality is imitated, ..."
2. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares, James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps, Thomas Wright (1901)
"Iron spits, however, soon superseded these clumsy instruments, and accordingly
Lear speaks of "red burning spits, hizzing; but recourse is still had to the ..."
3. A Study of the Sky by Herbert Alonzo Howe (1896)
"... or Cannon-thundering, a hizzing Noyse made way through the ayre, not unlike
the fly- A " hizzing ing of Bullets from the mouthes of great Ordnance : and ..."
4. A Study of the Sky by Herbert A.Howe by Herbert Alonzo Howe (1896)
"... this began a wonderful admiration, that at the end of the report of euery
cracke, or Cannon-thundering, a hizzing Noyse made way through the ayre, ..."
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