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Definition of Mazzard
1. Noun. Wild or seedling sweet cherry used as stock for grafting.
Definition of Mazzard
1. Noun. A sweet cherry, with taxomonic name ''Prunus avium'' ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Mazzard
1. a wild cherry [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mazzard
Literary usage of Mazzard
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1865)
"Fl. We have 'seen that mazzard, the head, is probably from mazer, a bowl. And on
we kest of warme milk mony a sk,ll, And of the blude of sacrifice ..."
2. The Laughing Philosopher: Being the Entire Works of Momus, Jester of Olympus by Charles Lamb, Thomas Hood, John Bull (1825)
"We should have known nothing of Yo- rick, the Danish king's jester, hid not the
gravedigger in Hamlet knocked him about the mazzard with a spade. ..."
3. The Encyclopedia of Practical Horticulture: A Reference System of Commercial by Granville Lowther, William Worthington (1914)
"Resistant Stocks and Varieties The mazzard Cherry as a Stock Attention has been
called to the fact that winter injury and unfavorable soil conditions may ..."
4. The Fruits and Fruit Trees of America: Or, The Culture, Propagation, and by Andrew Jackson Downing, Charles Downing (1860)
"If we sow a quantity of seed in garden soil of the common black mazzard cherry,
... It is likely indeed, that to gather the seeds from a wild mazzard in the ..."
5. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Honest /ГЛ., О. PI, ¡ii, 329. But m they amorous conquests, Ht the last, Some
wound will slice your mazer. Ml Foots, 0. PI, iv, 103. To mazzard, v. ..."
6. The California Fruits and how to Grow Them: A Manual of Methods which Have by Edward James Wickson (1921)
"About three-fourths of California cherry trees are propagated by budding on
seedlings of the Black mazzard. The Mahaleb root is still more hardy than the ..."
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