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Thesaurus: mizzle

To rain in very fine drops.

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  1. v. i. To rain in very fine drops.
  2. v. i. To take one's self off; to go.
  3. n. Mist; fine rain.
  4. n. very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower
  5. v. rain lightly
  6. 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. Mist; fine rain.
  7. n very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower v rain lightly