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See Improvvisatore.

Of or pertaining to improvisation or extemporaneous composition.

See Improvvisatrice.

composes and sings or recites rhymes and short poems extemporaneously. [Written also improvisatore.]

A female improvvisatore. [Written also improvisatrice.]

Not advisable. -- In`ad*vis"a*ble*ness, n.

Not capable of being replevied.

A Graafian follicle; any sac containing an ovum or ova.

Repleviable. Sir M. Hale.

That may be revised.

evising, or reviewing and reëxamining for correction and improvement; revision; as, the revisal of a manuscript; the revisal of a proof sheet; the revisal of a treaty.

Supervision. Walpole.

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

To take the vizard or mask from; to unmask. [Written also unvizard.] [Obs.] Milton.

In the act of grinning. "His visage all agrin." Tennyson.

c; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To mingle with a body so august. Byron.

Dark-visaged; swart.

watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.

Having a broad, flattened front; as, the bluff bows of a ship. "Bluff visages." Irving.

The color to buff; a light yellow, shading toward pink, gray, or brown. A visage rough, Deformed, unfeatured, and a skin of buff. Dryden.