mizzle

To rain in very fine drops.

Misty rain; drizzle.

A mist; a fine spray; a spattering.

But he knows he need never be in dread of your blade making a mizzle of his blood or of vengeance arriving ever from this quarter[.]

When a gawping Byzantine head bounced past his feet, and a mizzle of blood settled upon him, something changed.

To abscond, scram, flee.

As long as George IV could reign, he reigned, and then he mizzled.

“Now you may mizzle, Jemmy (as we say at Court), and if Mr. Copperfield will take the chair I’ll operate on him.”

To yield.

To muddle or confuse. (Probably from a misreading of past tense/participle misled.)