*visa*

a. 1. Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. [ 1913 Webster ]

Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Ready to receive advice. [ R. ] South. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Expedient; proper; desirable; befitting. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. With advice; wisely. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Impudent; bold. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Of. chevisance, chevissance, fr. chevircome to an end, perform, fr. chef head, end, from L. caput head. See Chieve, Chief. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Achievement; deed; performance. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A bargain; profit; gain. [ Obs. ] Piers Plowman. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (O. Eng. Law) (a) A making of contracts. (b) A bargain or contract; an agreement about a matter in dispute, such as a debt; a business compact. (c) An unlawful agreement or contract. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ From Devise. ] 1. Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being bequeathed, or given by will. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A devising. Whitney. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Envisaged p. pr. & vb. n. Envisaging ] [ F. envisager; pref. en- (L. in) + visage face, visage. See Visage. ] To look in the face of; to apprehend; to regard. [ R. ] Keats. [ 1913 Webster ]

From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. McCosh. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of envisaging. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Improvise. ] Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Improvisated p. pr. & vb. n. Improvisating ] To improvise; to extemporize. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. improvisation. ] 1. The act or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. That which is improvised; an impromptu. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. & i. Same as Improvisate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An improviser, or improvvisatore. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Improvvisatore.

{ } a. Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. See Improvvisatrice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Improvvisatori [ It. See Improvise. ] One who composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously. [ Written also improvisatore. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Improvvisatrici [ It. See Improvise. ] A female improvvisatore. [ Written also improvisatrice. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not advisable. -- In`ad*vis"a*ble*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

{ } a. (Law) Not capable of being replevied. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Ovum + sac. ] (Anat.) (a) A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova. (b) The inner layer of the fibrous wall of a Graafian follicle. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ OF. replevisable. ] Repleviable. Sir M. Hale. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be revised. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Revise. ] The act of revising, or reviewing and reexamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Supervision. Walpole. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Not advisable; inadvisable; inexpedient. Lowth. -- Un`ad*vis"a*bly, adv. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + vizard. ] To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask. [ Written also unvizard. ] [ Obs. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ F. ] A written stamp or document obtained by a citizen of one country from the proper authorities of another country, denoting that that person's passport has been examined, and that the person who bears the visa is permitted to enter or pass through the second country. It is usually in the form of an endorsement on the passport of the person seeking permission to enter a foreign country; however, in some cases a separate document is issued that does not create a mark in the passport. Same as Visé. [ 1913 Webster + PJC ]

/mhw>, prop. n. A credit card issued with the Trade Name “Visa” on it; as, he charged the dinner to his Visa. Visa is a competitor of Master Card, Discover, MBNA, and American Express, and other credit card companies. [ PJC ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Visaed p. pr. & vb. n. Visaing. ] To indorse, after examination, with the word visé, as a passport; to visé. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. visage, from L. visus a seeing, a look, fr. videre, visum, to see. See Vision. ] The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face. Chaucer. “A visage of demand.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

His visage was so marred more than any man. Isa. lii. 14. [ 1913 Webster ]

Love and beauty still that visage grace. Waller. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To face. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a visage. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A mask. See Visor. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To mask. [ 1913 Webster ]