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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Ha·zel n.
 1. Bot. A shrub or small tree of the genus Corylus, as the Corylus avellana, bearing a nut containing a kernel of a mild, farinaceous taste; the filbert.  The American species are Corylus Americana, which produces the common hazelnut, and Corylus rostrata.  See Filbert.
 2. A miner's name for freestone.
 Hazel earth, soil suitable for the hazel; a fertile loam.
 Hazel grouse Zool., a European grouse (Bonasa betulina), allied to the American ruffed grouse.
 Hazel hoe, a kind of grub hoe.
 Witch hazel. See Witch-hazel, and Hamamelis.