haze

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
haze1

▶noun

• 1 a slight obscuration of the lower atmosphere, typically caused by fine suspended particles.

• 2 a state of obscurity or confusion: through an alcoholic haze.

▶verb obscure with a haze.

– origin C18: prob. a back-form. from hazy.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
haze2

▶verb N. Amer.

• 1 torment or harass (a new student or recruit) by subjection to strenuous, humiliating, or dangerous tasks.

• 2 drive (cattle) while on horseback.

– origin C17 (orig. Scots and dial. in the sense ‘frighten, scold, or beat’): perh. rel. to obs. Fr. haser ‘tease or insult’.