mizzle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
    drizzle.
  2. verb rain lightly
    drizzle.
    • When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant

WordNet

Miz"zle intransitive verb
Etymology
See Misle, and cf. Mistle.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Mizzled ; present participle & verbal noun Mizzling
Definitions
  1. To rain in very fine drops. Spenser.
  2. To take one's self off; to go. Slang
    As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.
Miz"zle noun
Definitions
  1. Mist; fine rain.

Webster 1913