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See Vis.

ance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face. Chaucer. "A visage of demand." Shak. His visage was so marred more than any man. Isa. lii. 14. Love and beauty still that visage grace. Waller.

Having a visage. Shak.

A mask. See Visor.

A member of the most numerous of the native races of the Philippines, occupying the Visayan Islands and the northern coast Mindanao; also, their language. The Visayans possessed a native culture and alphabet.

The quality of being advisable; advisableness.

Proper to be advised or to be done; expedient; prudent. Some judge it advisable for a man to account with his heart every day. South.

The quality of being advisable or expedient; expediency; advisability.

With advice; wisely.

Impudent; bold.

Achievement; deed; performance. [Obs.] Fortune, the foe of famous chevisance. Spenser.

Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived.

A devising. Whitney.

f; to apprehend; to regard. [R.] Keats. From the very dawn of existence the infant must envisage self, and body acting on self. McCosh.

The act of envisaging.

Of a harsh or stern countenance; hard-featured. Burke.

Unpremeditated; impromptu; extempore. [R.]

or art of composing and rendering music, poetry, and the like, extemporaneously; as, improvisation on the organ.

Same as Improvisate.

An improviser, or improvvisatore.