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A mask used to disfigure or disguise. "My very visor began to assume life." Shak. My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor. Sir P. Sidney.

Wearing a visor; masked. Visored falsehood and base forgery. Milton.

Having power to advise; containing advice; as, an advisory council; their opinion is merely advisory. The General Association has a general advisory superintendence over all the ministers and churches. Trumbull.

One who devises, or gives real estate by will; a testator; -- correlative to devisee.

The number by which the dividend is divided. Common divisor. (Math.) See under Common, a.

A soldier who carried a pavise.

One who provides; a purveyor. [Obs.] "The chief provisor of our horse." Ford.

In a provisory manner; conditionally; subject to a proviso; as, to admit a doctrine provisorily. Sir W. Hamilton.

The office or position of a provisor. [R.] J. Webster.

Of the nature of a proviso; containing a proviso or condition; conditional; as, a provisory clause.

Having the power or purpose to revise; revising. Story.

One who supervises; an overseer; an inspector; a superintendent; as, a supervisor of schools.

Of or pertaining to supervision; as, supervisory powers.

A supervisor. [Obs.]

Containing counsel or warning; hortatory; advisory. [Obs.] Potter.

A light helmet, at first open, but later made with a visor. [Written also basinet, bassinet, basnet.]

The advisory council of the chief executive officer of a nation; a cabinet council.

A close cap without visor or brim. Especially: (a) Such a cap, worn by English serjeants at law. (b) Such a cap, worn by the French cavalry under their helmets. (c) Such a cap, worn by the clergy of the Roman Catholic Church. To assume the calotte, to become a priest.

The operation of striking out common factora, in both the dividend and divisor.

One usually with a visor but without a brim, for men and boys;