Meaning of mizzle in English

Examples of mizzle

mizzle
The gentleman that employed me has mizzled, and he promised me fifty pounds.
But on looking around, the boys had cut the pit--mizzled!
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A slow, mizzling rain had set in, and probably a more gloomy day never presented itself.
He read respectably till he came to the word "misled," which he pronounced as if it were mizzled.
Because he rained (reigned) as long as he could, and then--mizzled!
When she opened the kitchen-door there was the same small, mizzling rain that had obscured the light for weeks, and now it seemed to obscure hope.
It drizzles and mizzles, reeks and rains.
The sweat rolls from his half-covered forehead, and, unable to relieve his hands, he applies now one elbow, then the other, to dry up the mizzle from his moistened brow.
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