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Baze vs Baize - What's the difference?

baze | baize |

As a verb baze

is (obsolete) to stupefy; frighten; alarm.

As a noun baize is

a thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.

baze

English

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Verb

(baz)
  • (obsolete) To stupefy; frighten; alarm.
    • ----

    baize

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A thick, soft, usually woolen cloth resembling felt; often colored green and used for coverings on card tables, billiard and snooker tables, etc.
  • (dated) A coarse woolen stuff with a long nap; -- usually dyed in plain colors.
  • * 1719:
    • my goods being all English manufacture, such as cloths, stuffs, baize , and things particularly valuable and desirable in the country, I found means to sell them to a very great advantage...
  • * 1885:
    • At the further end, a flight of stairs mounted to a door covered with a red baize ; and through this, Mr. Utterson was at last received into the doctor's cabinet.