Defn: The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
MIZZENMAST
Miz"zen*mast, n. (Naut.)
Defn: The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
MIZZLE
Miz"zle, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mizzled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mizzling.]
Etym: [See Misle, and cf. Mistle.]
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.
MIZZLE
Miz"zle, n.
Defn: Mist; fine rain.
MIZZY Miz"zy, n. Etym: [Cf. F. moisi moldy, musty, p.p. of moisir to mold, fr. L. mucere to be moldy.]
Defn: A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] Ainsworth.