crozzles

Verb

crozzle (third-person singular simple present crozzles, present participle crozzling, simple past and past participle crozzled)

1. To shrink or shrivel from exposure to heat.
   • Gaston de Mowbray ground his hair in powder, and tore his teeth out in handfuls; his breath gushed forth with that icy coldness as to crozzle up the table before which he sat into a cinder; he paces the room to such an extent, that the past hung in penny cakes all over the apartment.1865, “The Terrible Mistake”, in Dollar Monthly Magazine, page 333

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