wizen
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It would wizen up, or grow ripe, or it might rot.
From "Johnny Tremain" by Esther Hoskins Forbes
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One of the first people to call on Miss Norman was a dry, wizen monkey of a man, who announced himself as Jabez Pash, the solicitor of the deceased.
From The Opal Serpent by Fergus Hume
The little creature hid her wizen face in her withered little hands and sobbed.
Though his face was wizen, the leanness of his body had no appearance of weakness, but rather every sign of strength.
From The Bright Face of Danger Being an Account of Some Adventures of Henri de Launay, Son of the Sieur de la Tournoire by Robert Neilson Stephens
The voice comes through their wizen mouths like wind from the crack of an old wainscot.
From The Surrender of Calais A Play, in Three Acts by George Colman
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