dazed, ppl. a.
(deɪzd)
[f. daze v. + -ed. Cf. ON. dasað exhausted.]
1. Benumbed in the mental faculties; stupefied, bewildered.
| c 1325 E.E. Allit. P. A. 1084, I stod as stylle as dased quayle. c 1425 Wyntoun Cron. vi. iv. 56 He wes þan In hys Deyd bot a dasyd man. c 1440 Promp. Parv. 114 Dasyd, or be-dasyd, vertiginosus. 1501 Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xxvi, My daisit heid fordullit disselie. 1587 Turberv. Trag. T., etc. (1837) 317 It wil delight my dazed sprites. 1789 Burns 2nd Ep. to Davie iv, Whyles daez't wi' love, whyles daez't wi' drink. 1866 G. Macdonald Ann. Q. Neighb. xxii. (1878) 408 She looked dazed, perhaps from the effects of her fall. |
b. Dazzled with excess of light.
| 1581 Marbeck Bk. of Notes 153 If for a while you fixe your sight thereon, dimnesse & darknesse doe follow your dazed eies. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. viii. 21 As where th' Almighties lightning brond does light, It dimmes the dazed eyen. 1870 Morris Earthly Par. I. ii. 512 His troubled eyes and dazed He lifted from the glory of that gold. |
2. Benumbed or deadened with cold. north.
| 1513 Douglas æneis v. vii. 58 The dasyt bluid..Walxis dolf and dull throw myne unweildy age. 1674 Ray N.C. Words 14 I'ze dazed, I am very cold. 1811 Willan W. Riding Gloss., Dazed..benumbed with frost. 1873 Swaledale Gloss., Dazzed, chilled. |
3. Spoiled in baking or roasting, by using a too strong or too slow heat. north. dial.
| 1674 Ray N.C. Words, Dazed Bread, dough-baked. Dazed Meat, ill roasted by reason of the badness of the fire. 1855 Robinson Whitby Gloss., A deazed loaf, the dough or paste ill baked, or when the leaven or yeast has failed in its work. 1876 Mid-Yorkshire Gloss., Dêazed bread is overbaked outwardly, and not enough baked within. |
4. Applied to anything that has lost its freshness and strength, as to wood when it loses its proper colour and texture. Sc. and north. Eng.
| 1825 Jamieson, Daised wud, rotten wood. 1892 Specification (Durham), No dazed wood to be used. |