Wooze

No person shall set the fats in tan hills, or other places, where the woozes or leather may take any unkind heats; or shall put any leather into any hot or warm woozes; or shall tan any hide or skin with any hot or warm woozes; [...]

[B]y tanned hides or ſkins, or by tanned pieces of hides or ſkins, are meant only ſuch as are tanned in wooſe made of the bark of trees, or ſumack, or whereof the principal ingredients ſhall be ſuch bark, or ſumack; [...]

Afterwards put them into handlers with a part of the bark which comes out of the leaches or tubs, and fill them up with a weak wooze; in this situation they are to remain for about two or three weeks, more or less, handling them, however, during that time once or twice every day; this operation takes the lime out which the hides may contain, and prepares them for the tannage.

"Ah, but you are punishing yourself needlessly, Sonya, I think." Ilya said expansively, leaning a bit closer himself, and seeming to weave in her vision woozily, though whether she was woozing, or he was woozing, or both of them were sharing a friendly little wooze together, it was hard to tell.

He felt that postbennie wooze.

As to what we called crop leather, when the hides are woozed enough for laying away I have a very strong wooze drawn from them.

Sebastian is too woozed by alcoholism to make any formal contribution to politics, but he makes a special trip to Germany to convince a German friend to abandon Naziism.

I am woozed out with a sedative, wheeled into the operating room, ...