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▪ I. ‖ bise|biz, biːz|
Also 6 bisa.
[a. F. bise, in same sense. Also found in med.L., Pr., Piedmontese bisa; OHG. bîsa, MHG. bîse, mod.G., Swiss bîse, beiswind, Breton biz. Origin and native lang. unknown: Diez (s.v. Bigio) and Scheler incline to refer it to bis dark, blackish. In mod.Eng. only an alien French word.]
A keen dry N. or NNE. wind, prevalent in Switzerland and the neighbouring parts of France, Germany, and Italy.
a1300Havelok 724 That it ne bigan a wind to rise Out of the north, men calleth bise. 1594Greene Look. Glasse (1861) 134 Our sails were split by Bisas bitter blast. 1834M. Somerville Connex. Phys. Sc. xxvi. (1849) 292 The cutting north wind called the bise in Switzerland. 1885Ruskin Præter. ii. 38 The bise, now first letting one feel what malignant wind could be.
▪ II. bise
obs. f. bice. |