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/ˈmɪzl/ · verb
(intransitive, British, Canada, US, chiefly dialectal) To rain in very fine drops..
But he knows he need never be in dread of your blade making a mizzle of his blood or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]
When a gawping Byzantine head bounced past his feet, and a mizzle of blood settled upon him, something changed.
As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.
1986, Joan Aiken, Dido and Pa http://books.google.com/books?ie=UTF-8&hl=en&vid=ISBN0618196234&id=MNEhgMsgaIMC&pg=PA232&lpg=PA232&sig=JAfeh2dResB-FcNOuZRJBiu0ISA “Now you better mizzle,” Dido told him. “Get back to your own quarters, fast.”
“Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”
Use mizzle when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Mizzle means (intransitive, British, Canada, US, chiefly dialectal) To rain in very fine drops..
Common synonyms include drizzle.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
But he knows he need never be in dread of your blade making a mizzle of his blood or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]
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