wizen Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite lean and wrinkled by shrinkage as from age or illness
    withered; shriveled; wizened; shrivelled; shrunken.
    • the old woman's shriveled skin
    • he looked shriveled and ill
    • a shrunken old man
    • a lanky scarecrow of a man with withered face and lantern jaws"-W.F.Starkie
    • he did well despite his withered arm
    • a wizened little man with frizzy grey hair

WordNet

Wiz"en intransitive verb
Etymology
OE. wisenen, AS. wisnian akin to weornian to decay, OHG. wesann to grow dry, G. verwesen to rot, Icel. visna to wither, Sw. vissna, Dan. visne, and probably to L. virus an offensive odor, poison. Cf. Virus.
Definitions
  1. To wither; to dry. Prov. Eng. & Scot.
Wiz"en adjective
Definitions
  1. Wizened; thin; weazen; withered.
    A little lonely, wizen, strangely clad boy. Dickens.
Wiz"en noun
Definitions
  1. The weasand. Prov. Eng. & Scot.

Webster 1913