mizzle

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Mizzle, a gray-green, gets its name from a colloquialism for that familiar British weather condition halfway between mist and drizzle.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 11, 2019

This circumstance afforded material to the editor of the Mail, Mr Edward Farrer, for an amusing article, bearing the alliterative title, 'The Murderer's Midnight Mizzle, or the Ruffian's Race for Rimouski.'

From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir

But it was not by the touch alone that Mathew Mizzle sought after information in his earlier career.

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor

Come, Summers and Mizzle, you are well enough to join, and Meetuck, you must be our guide; look alive and get yourselves ready.”

From The World of Ice by Ballantyne, R. M. (Robert Michael)

Switches above and bark below, what could the unfortunate Mathew Mizzle do but surrender himself a prisoner of war?

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII No. 1 January 1848 by Conrad, Robert Taylor