Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIS'ARD, t.

To mask.

VIS'ARD, n.

A mask. [See Visor.]

VIS-A-VIS, n. [Fr. opposite, face to face.]

A carriage in which two persons sit face to face.

VIS'CE-RA, n. [L. plur. of viscus]

The bowels; the contents of the abdomen, thorax, and cranium. In its most general sense, the organs contained in any cavity of the body, particularly in the three venters, the head, thorax, and abdomen. Cyc. Parr.

VIS'CE-RAL, a. [L. viscera.]

1. Pertaining to the viscera.
2. Feeling; having sensibility. [Unusual.] Reynolds.

VISCID, a. [L. eiseidas; viscus, birdlime.]

Glutinous; sticky; tenacious; not readily separating; as, turpentine, tar, gums, &c. are more or less viscid.

VISCID, n.

1. Glutinousness; tenacity; stickiness.
2. Glutinous concretion. Floyer.

VIS-COS'I-TY, or VISCOUS-NESS, n.

Glutinousness; tenacity; viscidity; that quality of soft substances which makes them adhere so as not to be easily parted.

VIS-COUNT, n. vi'count. [L. vice-cones; Fr. vicomte.]

1. An officer who formerly supplied the place of the count or earl; the sherif of the county. England.
2. A degree or title of nobility next iu rank to an earl. Cowel. England.

VIS-COUNT-ESS, n. vi'countess.

The lady of a viscount; a peeress of the fourth order. Johnson.

VIS-COUNT-SHIP,

vi'countship, or VIS-COUNT-Y, vi'county, n. The quality and office of a viscount. Williams.

VIS'COUS, a. [Fr. visgueux; from L. viscus, birdlime.]

Glutinous; elammy; sticky; adhesive; tenacious; as, a viscous juice.

VIS'CUS, n. [L. plur. viscera.]

An entrail, one of the contents of the cranium, thorax, or abdomen.

VISE, a. [Fr. vis, a screw.]

An engine or instrument for griping and holding things, closed by a screw; used by artificers.

VISE, n. wen. [Norm. from L. vicinia.]

Neighborhood. [See Venue.] .

VISER-ATE, v.t. [supra.]

To exenterate; to embowel; to deprive of the entrails or viscera. [Eviscerate is generally used.]

VISHNU, n.

In the Hindoo mythology, the name of one of the chief deities of the trimurti or triad. He is the second person of this unity, and a personification of the preserving powers. Cyc. Encyc.

VIS-I-BILI-TY,

1. n, s as z. [from visible; Fr. visibility.]
2. Time state or quality of being perceivable to the eye; as, the visibility of minute particles, or of distant objects.
3. The state of being discoverable or apparent; conspicuousness; as, the perpetual visibility of the church. Stillingfleet.

VIS'I-BLE, a.

1. s as z. [Fr. from L. visibilis.]
2. Perceivable by the eye; that can be seen; as, a visible star; the least spot is visible on white paper; the fine dust or other matter in air agitated by heat becomes; as iu the air near a heated stove, or over a dry sandy plain, appearing like pellucid waves. Virtue made risible in outward grace. Young.
3. Discovered to the eye; as, visible spirits. Shak.
4. Apparent; open; conspicuous. Factions at court became more visible. Clarendon. Visible church, in theology, the apparent church of Christ; the whole body of professed believers in Christ, as contra. distinguished from the real or invisible church, consisting of sanctified persons. Visible horizon, the line that bounds the sight.

VIS'I-BLE-NESS, n.

State or quality of being visible; visibility.

VIS'I-BLY, adv.

In a manner perceptible to the eye. The day is visibly governed by the sun; the tides are visibly governed by the moon.

VIS-IN-ER'TIAE, [L.]

1. The resistance of matter to change as respects motion. There are four conditions under which matter resists change as respects motion; as, 1) when it is brought from rest to motion; 2) when it is brought from motion to rest; 3) when the direction of the motion is changed; and 4) when the velocity is changed. Vis inertiae and inertia are not strictly synonymous. The former implies the resistance itself, which is given, while the latter implies merely the property, by which it is given. Gravitation is always exactly proportioned to inertia.
2. Inertness; inactivity.

VISION, n.

1. s as z. [Fr. from L. visit], from video, visua.]
2. The act of seeing external objects; actual sight. Faith here is turned into vision there. Hummond.
3. The faculty of seeing; sight. Vision is lar more perfect and acute in some animals than in man.
4. Something imagined to be seen, though not real; a phantom; a specter. No dreams, but visions strange. Sidney.
5. In Scripture, a revelation from God; an appearance or exhibition of something supernaturally presented to the minds of the prophets, by which they were informed of future events. Such were the visions of Isaiah, of Amos, of Ezekiel, &c.
6. Something imaginary; the production of fancy. Locke.
7. Any thing which is the object of sight. Thomson.

VISION-AL, a.

Pertaining to a vision. Waterland.

VISION-A-RI-NESS, n.

The quality of being visionary.