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One who improvises.

Improvidence. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Not prepared or mediated beforehand; extemporaneous. [Obs.] Jonhson.

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.

Want of civism; want of patriotism or love to one's country; unfriendliness to one's state or government. [R.] Macaulay.

The state or property of being indivisible or inseparable; inseparability. Locke.

Not divisible; incapable of being divided, separated, or broken; not separable into parts. "One indivisible point of time." Dryden.

The state of being indivisible; indivisibility. W. Montagu.

In an indivisible manner.

A state of being not divided; oneness. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Mutually visible, or in sight, the one from the other, as stations.

To exchange visits. [R.] Evelyn.

The doctrine that the ideas of right and wrong are intuitive. J. Grote.

To daub or catch with glue or birdlime; to entangle with glutinous matter. [R.] Sir T. Browne.

To breed; to nourish. [R.] W. Montagu.

The state or quality of being invisible; also, that which is invisible. "Atoms and invisibilities." Landor.

Incapable of being seen; not perceptible by vision; not visible. To us invisible, or dimly seen In these thy lowest works. Milton. Invisible bird (Zoöl.), a small, shy singing bird (Myadestes sibilons), of St. Vincent Islands. -- Invisible green, a very dark shade of green, approaching to black, and liable to be mista…

The quality or state of being invisible; invisibility.