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8 words match “AVISE”

AVISE v. 3 definitions
To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] Shak. To avise one's self, to consider with one's self, to reflect, to deliberate. [Obs.] Chaucer. Now therefore, if thou wilt enriched be, Avise thee well, and change thy willful mood. Spenser.
AVISEFUL a.
Watchful; circumspect. [Obs.] With sharp, aviseful eye. Spenser.
AVISELY adv.
Advisedly. [Obs.] Chaucer.
AVISEMENT n.
Advisement; observation; deliberation. [Obs.]
PAVISE n.
A large shield covering the whole body, carried by a pavisor, who sometimes screened also an archer with it. [Written also pavais, pavese, and pavesse.] Fairholt.
PAVESE; PAVESSE n.
Pavise. [Obs.]
PAVISOR n.
A soldier who carried a pavise.
SNAIL n.
[in] taking or sieging of castle or of city, as snails, that was naught else but hollow pavises and targets, under the which men, when they fought, were heled [protected], . . . as the snail is in his house; therefore they cleped them snails. Vegetius (Trans.).