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woozes

woozes is the plural of wooze.

woozes is the third-person singular simple present indicative of wooze.

Meaning of wooze

Noun

wooze (countable and uncountable, plural woozes)

  1. A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.
    • No person shall set the fats in tan hills, or other places, where the woozes or leather may take any unkind heats; or shall put any leather into any hot or warm woozes; or shall tan any hide or skin with any hot or warm woozes; [...]1772, Richard Burn, The Justice of the Peace, and Parish Officer, volume III, page 84
  2. A state of wooziness.
    • "Ah, but you are punishing yourself needlessly, Sonya, I think." Ilya said expansively, leaning a bit closer himself, and seeming to weave in her vision woozily, though whether she was woozing, or he was woozing, or both of them were sharing a friendly little wooze together, it was hard to tell.2013, Norman Spinrad, Russian Spring, →ISBN

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Questions about woozes

What is woozes the plural of?
Woozes is the plural of wooze.

Words near woozes in the dictionary

  1. wooyen
  2. wooyens
  3. Wooyung
  4. wooze
  5. woozed
  6. woozes
  7. woozier
  8. wooziest
  9. woozily
  10. wooziness
  11. woozing

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