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▪ I. vizy, n. Sc.|ˈvɪzɪ|
Also 8–9 vizzy, 9 vizzie, vizzey, vissie, visie, visey, etc.
[f. the vb., or ad. F. visée (OF. visee), look, sight, aim, etc.]
1. An aim at an object which it is desired to hit; esp. in the phr. to take a vizy (cf. F. prendre visée).
1720Ramsay Marr. Earl Weymss vi, The Thane of Fife, wha lately wi' his flane, And vizy leel, made the blyth bowl his ain. 1808J. Mayne Siller Gun iv. xlviii, Roused at the thought, [he] charged his fuzee, Took but ae vizzy wi' his e'e—The bullet flies Clean through the target to a tee. 1822Galt Steam-boat vii, Logan took a vizy, and fired. 1884Pae Eustace 143 The gun was run into the desired position, the sailor called it a ‘vizzey’.
b. The sight of a gun.
1828Blackw. Mag. Sept. 288/2 Thus too, the vizy (Anglice sight) generally inclined unduly to one side or the other.
2. A look or view; a sight of something; a glimpse.
1785Mackenzie Lounger No. 6 ⁋2 He tried to see the stage, and got a flying vizzy now and then. 1818Scott Br. Lamm. xvi, But ye had best take a visie of him through the wicket before opening the gate. 1834Tait's Mag. I. 429/1 It unfortunately never was his forte to take a steady fixed vizzy of any one thing.
Hence ˈvizyless a.
1828Blackw. Mag. Sept. 300/1 Oh! that our passion could restore thee [i.e. Mons Meg], butless, lockless, vizyless,..though thou be'st, to the light of day.
▪ II. vizy, v. Sc.|ˈvɪzɪ|
Forms: α. 5–6 vesy, wesy, 6 wese, wessie, vese, vesie. β. 5–6, 8 visy, 5 wysy, 6 wis(s)y, -ie, vis(s)e, visye, 6–7 visie, 6, 9 vissie, 8 vizzey, 8–9 vizzy, 8– vizy.
[ad. ONF. viseer (Wace):—L. vīsitāre visit v.]
†1. trans. To go to see; to pay a visit or visits to; to visit. Obs.
a. a person.
Freq. in the 16th c.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints v. (John) 631 He vent to vesy þe kinge, & tel hym of his travalinge. c1425Wyntoun Cron. v. 3899 Scho oyssit to wesy bodely Al pur folk þat was nere by. 1500–20Dunbar Poems ix. 28, I confess me, Lord! that I..To hungre meit, nor drynk to thristy gaif, Nor veseit the seik. 1550in Exch. Rolls Scotl. XVIII. 502 note, Ane sair leg, quharthrouch I mycht nocht cum west tyll wisy þe and uthir freyndis. 1583in Wodrow Soc. Misc. (1844) 460 He was..maist wiland to wissie the puirest creatour, being aduertisit or requyreit thairunto, in the verray nicht seson. 1600Hamilton in Cath. Tractates (S.T.S.) 231 Elizabeth..sayd,..how is this commit to me, that the Mother of my lord suld come to visie me.
b. a place.
1535Lyndesay Satyre 504, I mak ane vow,..Richt reuerentlie thy Tempill to visie. 1549Compl. Scot. Prol. 13 Thir tua princis vsit oft to visye the feildis to tak ther recreatione. Ibid. vi. 38 Quhen titan vas visiand antepodos.
2. To look at closely or attentively; to regard, see, view.
c1470Henry Wallace iii. 103 The worthi Scottis..Send twa skowrrouris to wesy weyll the playne. c1470Golagros & Gaw. 243 The king stude vesiand the wall. a1500Bernardus de cura rei fam. (E.E.T.S.) 212 Haffand a gret delyte For to wesy..oculatouris or trumpouris. 1533Bellenden Livy iv. xv. (S.T.S.) 100 Frequent nowmer of pepill þat come to vesy þir playis. a1568A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) xxvii. 33 Quhen scho growis heich, I draw on dreich, To vesy and behald the end. 1724Ramsay Vision vii, I vizyt him then round about. 1725― Gentle Sheph. iii. ii. Prol., 'Tis Symon's house, please to step in, And visy 't round and round. 1790Shirrefs Poems 256 When first your Castles I did vizzey. 1867J. Grant White Cockade I. 60 An eye was seen to vizzy them carefully.
†b. To examine, inspect, survey, or view formally or officially. Obs.
1496Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 321 To pas to Borthuik..to vesy tymmyre for gun paraling. 1512Ibid. IV. 459 To xxxvj marynaris for ij dais quhen the Franchmen passit to vesy the schippis. 1561Exch. Rolls Scotl. XIX. 265 note, Thir our lettres being anis producit thairin and vesyt be the lordis auditouris therof. 1597Skene Acts of Parlt. Table s.v. Prenters, Prenters suld not prent ony buikes, or vther thing, bot that quhilk is visied and tryed, havand the Kingis licence.
†c. With clause as object, or with to and inf. Obs.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints xl. (Ninian) 559 Ȝet wald he [i.e. a bishop] mekly on fete ga..to visy in quhat wyse þe kirkmen did þar seruice. 1497Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. I. 380 To the man that ȝeid to vesy to se gif he could wyn sclait, ij½ vnicornis. 1535Stewart Cron. Scot. (Rolls) III. 431 The erle of Marche..and mony lordis mo, Come to his tent to visie how he did. 1556Peebles Burgh Rec. (1872) 235 The thesaurare to vesy gif ony timber be to by to mak portis of.
d. To visé. rare—2.
1867J. Grant White Cockade I. 54 Letters..signed and vizzied by the conservator of Scottish privileges at Campvere, and the British ambassador.
†3.
a. To afflict or visit (a person) with sickness or harm. Obs.
c1470Henry Wallace vii. 381 His fadyr..wes wesyed with seknes. a1500Colkelbie Sow 595 Throuch the will of God, so as it was, Thay war weseit with suddane soir seikness. 1549Compl. Scot. ii. 24, I sal visee you vitht dreddour, vitht fyir, ande vitht suellieg (sic).
†b. To punish (a sin or wrong). Obs.
1552Abp. Hamilton Catech. (1884) 58, I will visie and punis the synnis quhilk the fatheris dois..on thair sonnis. 1562A. Scott Poems (S.T.S.) i. 151 To wisy all þir wrangus workis..God gife þe grace.
4. intr. (or absol.). To look or gaze.
1513Douglas æneid iii. ix. 113 And weseand all about, I se at last This navy of ȝouris drawand hiddir fast. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xliv, And sine thay luke and visies throwe the cleir and purifyit watter, quhill thay se the mussilis. 1899in Eng. Dial. Dict. (Shetland dial.).
5. To take aim with a gun, etc.; to aim at.
1582–8Hist. James VI (1804) 75 He..cuttit ane small hole in the tarlies, quhairby he might vissie with his hagbute. 1818Hogg Brownie of Bodsbeck viii, They'll maybe hae been trying how weel they could vizy at the wild ducks. 1824Mactaggart Gallovid. Encycl. 457 Some raw hands, when vizzying first at the nail in the bull's eye of the target with loaded ball [etc.].
Hence ˈvizying vbl. n. (also attrib.).
1552Acc. Ld. High Treas. Scot. X. 148 The lairdis of Corswell, Auchyngassill, Cowhill, commissioneris for veseing of the futemen to be rasit withtin the Sherefdomes quhair thai dwell. 1825R. Chambers Trad. Edinb. I. 236 Sometimes the rod was simply stretched across the vizzying hole, a convenient aperture through which the porter could take cognizance of the person applying. |