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A light cape or short cloak of silk or lace worn by women in summer.

A visitor.

A visiting card.

Visited by a dream; -- used in the phrase, To be adreamed, to dream. [Obs.]

hotograph, a photograph of a size smaller than an imperial, though larger than a carte de visite. -- Cabinet picture, a small and generally highly finished picture, suitable for a small room and for close inspection.

Short for Carte de visite.

e beginning. Milton. The tender mercy of our God; whereby the dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78.

esire to live at peace with all men. They are popularly called Quakers. America was first visited by Friends in 1656. T. Chase.

A Greek or Armenian who has visited the holy sepulcher at Jerusalem. Heyse.

every respect. [Obs.] Chaucer. -- On high, aloft; above. The dayspring from on high hath visited us. Luke i. 78. -- The Most High, the Supreme Being; God.

An impious act; an act of wickednes. Those impieties for the which they are now visited. Shak.

A people visited by Ulysses in his wanderings. They subsisted on the lotus. See Lotus (b), and Lotus-eater.

Abounding in monsters. [R.] Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world. Milton.

Free to be used, enjoyed, visited, or the like; not private; public; unrestricted in use; as, an open library, museum, court, or other assembly; liable to the approach, trespass, or attack of any one; unprotected; exposed. If Demetrius . . . have a matter against any man, the law is open and there are deputies. Acts xi…

dering religious votary; especially, one who bore a branch of palm as a token that he had visited the Holy Land and its sacred places. Chaucer. Pilgrims and palmers plighted them together. P. Plowman. The pilgrim had some home or dwelling place, the palmer had none. The pilgrim traveled to some certain, designed place…

man or woman. Wise, warlike, personable, courteous, and kind. Spenser. The king, . . . so visited with sickness, was not personable. E. Hall.

gnant contagious fever, that often prevails in Egypt, Syria, and Turkey, and has at times visited the large cities of Europe with frightful mortality; hence, any pestilence; as, the great London plague. "A plague upon the people fell." Tennyson. Cattle plague. See Rinderpest. -- Plague mark, Plague spot, a spot or mar…

ot much visited or frequented remote from society; retired; lonely; as, a solitary residence or place.

churches and by the side of the way leading to sacred edifices or shrines, and which are visited in rotation, stated services being performed at each; -- called also Station of the cross. Fairholt. Station bill. (Naut.) Same as Quarter bill, under Quarter. -- Station house. (a) The house serving for the headquarters…

Rarely visited; seldom or never resorted to by human beings; as, an unfrequented place or forest. Addison.