wooze

wooze means A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.

Etymology

From Middle English wosen, from Old English wōsan, variant of wēsan. Doublet of ooze.

noun

A liquid formed by leaching bark that is used for soaking hides during the tanning process.
A state of wooziness.

To soak hides in wooze.e.g.“As to what we called crop leather, when the hides are woozed enough for laying away I have a very strong wooze drawn from them.” — 1856, English Patents of Inventions:
To cause to feel woozy.e.g.“Sebastian is too woozed by alcoholism to make any formal contribution to politics, but he makes a special trip to Germany to convince a German friend to abandon Naziism.” — 1982, Evelyn Waugh Newsletter - Volumes 16-24, page 22:
To become woozy or sleepy.e.g.“My head was feeling strange, woozing in and woozing out.” — 2006, Janet Taylor Lisle, Black duck, →ISBN, page 191:
To move or function while in a daze.e.g.“Dismissing Zing's desertion, Sheri pitched in so intensively that she barely woozed through the final afternoon, like a setting hen on H-day, feeling life stir in the eggs.” — 1964, P. S. Barrows, More about Scheherazade, page 194:
To speak while intoxicated; to say in a slurred voice.e.g.“"Click Dark," woozed Amber, "nice to meet ya."” — 1998, John Kane, Best Actress, →ISBN, page 122:
To gradually go in and out of mental focus.e.g.“This was woozing through my mind and the voices spoke again.” — 1971, Edith M. Osborn, Short Visit to Ergon, page 7:
To move sinuously.e.g.“He had floated up from the bottom and he grinned at us horribly from his bullet-shattered skull as he slowly woozed away from us downstream leaving a wake of stinking bubbles behind him.” — 1927, The Military Surgeon, page 142:

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