Perhaps some reader may give an instance of Mazer wood being mentioned by other writers; or inform me if the word Mazer, in itself, had any peculiar signification.
Presuming, as I do, that this Mazer wood was what we now term gutta percha, the question may be propounded, how could Tradescant have procured it from its remote locale?
Faith of my soul, I deem each have gained; Forthy let the lamb be Willie his own; And for Perigot, so well hath him pained, To him be the wroughten mazer alone.
When Simon Gardiner lost his mazerbowl he employed a German, Henry Pot by name, to trace it.
Enamelled shield with the arms of Ballard on the print of a mazer at All Souls college, Oxford, c.
Enamelled shield with the arms of Ballard on the print of a mazer (c.
A very finemazer with silver gilt ornamentation 3 in.
Spenser in the "Shepherd's Kalendar" speaks of "a mazer ywrought of the maple warre.
A rarer form of mazer has the characters just mentioned and in addition is mounted upon a high foot, bringing it nearer to the category of standing cups or "hanaps.
The ordinary mazer was a shallow bowl (see PLATE, Plate II.
The Mazer continued in use to the seventeenth century, when it was still a favourite with the humbler classes.
Nothing is said of silver; there are no silver cups--in the century before this no respectable householder was without one silver mazerat least; there are no silver candlesticks; there is no mention of forks.
Fifty years ago there would have been none of these things, but treen platters; of arras none; and but one poor silver mazer for all his plate.
He found it in company with his fellows, and whether he took it out of a glass or a silver mazer or a black jack, he took it joyfully, and he took it abundantly.
Meantime Alan, one may believe, had consigned the mazerto a safe place, and joined in the congratulations of Johanne's friends.
The Querist asks, "Has the word Mazer any signification in itself?
It is known that when the mazer bowl was made of silver, the old name was retained.
Your Querist asks, "Has the word Mazer any signification in itself?
Spenser speaks in his Shepheard's Calendar of "a mazer yrought of the maple wood.
The old English and German vessel known as a mazer was made of maple-wood, often bound and tipped with silver.
This quaint version of an old popular error forms the crest of more than one Scottish family, but there is no indication of its being introduced on the mazer as a heraldic device, or symbolic reference to its original owner.
One quaint, but very beautiful allusion, however, is made by an old Scottish writer to the mazer cup, referring to it metaphorically, as to a sacramental chalice.
Among the beautiful examples of medieval art recently exhibited at the London Royal Society of Arts, was a beautiful mazer bowl of silver-gilt, of fifteenth century workmanship, which belongs to Oriel College, Oxford.
The woodcut represents a mazer of very simple form, and probably of an early age, made not of the maple but the ash, a tree famed of old for many supernatural qualities.
The woodcut represents a very beautiful mazer of the time of Richard II.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "mazer" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
