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VISITORIAL. 256 VISOR.
of Newgate). 1897 Daii^ Ne7vs 1 Feb. 7/5 Visitor, .is the
. .name ^ven to those vigilant officers of the Board whose
buMness it is to run truants to earth. 190X Daily Chron. 2^
Aug. 7/1 In 1599 four ladies were appointed as health visitors.
2. a. One who visits from charitable motives or
.
with a view of doing good.
c 1430 Lydc Milt. Piwnts (Percy Soc.) 205 Vertuous visitour
10 folIc>'s in prisoun, 1536 Leii. Suppress. Monast.
(Camden) 133 Most gracyus lord and most worthyst vycytar
that ever cam amonckes us. x6>o Shaks. Tenip. 11. 1. 11
Seb, He recetues comfort Hke cold porredge. Ant. The
Visitor will not giue him ore sa 1833 J. Tixkerman {title).
Visitor of the Poor. 1863 Bio^. ^k. E. Fry 45 Ihe cheerfulness
vi'iible in their {sc. prisoners'] countenances.. conspired
to excite the.. admiration of their visitors. 1870
[see District sb, 6J.
b. One who visits with punishment, rare.
1545 JoYE Exp. Dan, i. 12, I am., the visitour and seker
out of the wykednes of the fathers in their childerii.
3. One who pays a visit to another person or to
a household; one who is staying for a time with
friends.
1607 Shaks. Thnon i. i. 42 You see this confluence, this
great flood of visitors. x66b J. Strypk in Lett. Lit, Men
(Cjimden) 177, I hear also my brother Sayer is often a visitor.
1693 Drvden yurenai vi. 620 She hires Tormentors,
by the Year; she I'reats Her Visitours, and talks. 1697
Collier Ess. Moral Subjects 11. (i6g8) 137 They do
not care to be crowded with Visitors,, .and to be always
yoaked in Ceremony. 1797 Mrs. Radclifff, Italian Prol.,
Too singular in his conduct, to pass unnoticed by the visitors.
1838 LvTTON Alice I. iv, She filled the rooms of the
visitors with flowers. 1856 Kane Arct. Ex^l. I. xxx. 407
After sharing the supperof theirhosts, thevisiiorsstretched
themselves out and passed the night in.. slumber. 1871
GrenvillE'Murrav Memberfor Paris I. 287 * Oh, I'm only
a Wsitor', answered Horace modestly.
traiisf. 1576 Fleming Panopl, Epist. 130 What is done
heere shalbe reueaied vnto yoti by mine Epistles, whiche
shall not be your sealdome visitoures. 1784 Cowper Tttsk
VI. 570 The creeping vermin, loathsome to tlie sight,..
^"isitor unwelcome.
attrib, 1857 Dickens Dorrit xxxii. The visitor-wife and
the unseasoned prboner still lingered.
4. One who visits a place, country, etc., esp. as
a sightseer or tourist.
17»8 Chambers Cycl. s.v. Cynics, The Novelty of the
Thing drew abundance of Visitors to the Village. 1841
Lane Arab. Nts. I. 71 Sometimes the visitors.., after having
hired a person to perform a longer recitation, go away
before he commences. iWo Tvndall Glac. 11. xvii. 315 It
is usual for visitors to the Montauvert to descend to the
glacier. Z895 B'ham V.M.C.A. RecordOct, ^/2 Theusual
time of year for the arrival in India of visitors is the middle
of October.
b. An animal or bird which occasionally or at
reijnlar seasons frequents a certain locality or area.
i859-«a Sir J. Richardson, etc. Mus. Nat. Hist. (1868) I.
425 I'hc Puffin.. is a summer visitor to our shores. 1863
Lyell Antiq. Man 15 The presence of the wild swan, now
only a winter visitor. 1870 N. F. Hele AlHeburgh vii. 71
The dead or Kite. .'\z a very rare visitor.
Hence Vi'BitoresB, = Visitbess,
Also itisitorisk, visitorless (nonce-words).
a 1843 Southev Comm.'Fl. Hk. Ser. 11. (1849) 30/2
Their superior was called the Prepostress, and they had
Visitoresses, Rectresses, and other dignitaries.
Visitorial (vizito^'rial), a, [f. prcc or Visit
V. : see -obial.]
1. = Visitatorial «, i.
1813 Examiner 24 May 332/1 We held it to be beneath
our visiiorial functions. 1843 Lett. Suppress. Monast.
(Camden) 71 One of the visitonal injunctions, in allusion to
this class of students, directs fete. J. 1873 B. (jkegory Holy
Catholic Ch. xv. 153 The visitorial authority of the itinerant
Apostolate.
2. Capable of visiting.
1853 Tail's Mag. XX. 486 The more terrible and supposed
visible* or at least visitorial deities of the hideous
Pantheon of the Hindoos.
Vi'sitorship. [f. Visitor i + -ship.] The
office or dtti;nity of an official visitor.
1886 L. O. Pike Yearbks. 13 f( 14 Ed. Ill, Introd. p. Ixvii,
The visitorship was in the Treasurer on the King's behalf.
1894 Nation (N.Y.) 19 July 49/1 Thus Balliol stands alone
among the twenty-one Oxford Colleges in having the
power to bestow the visitorship just given to Mr. Peel.
Visitress (vi-zitres). [t. V18ITOB : see -ess.]
1. A female visitor. Also transf,
i8a7 E. W. Barnard Swalloiv i, The visitress of man, on
earth She resteth not her flagging wing. x83a Phaser's
Meig. V. 173 Our importunate visitress. 1847 C. Bbontf.
y. Eyre xxxii, Keenly, I fear, did the eye of the visitre>s
pierce the young pastor's heart. 1869 W. R. Greg Lit. o
J. Wilkinson Coroners f( Sherifes 3 A Coroner hath a fee
belonging to his office viz. of every visne i d. i6>5 Sir H.
Finch Law (1636) 411 In euery suit betweene an Alien and
a Demesne, .the one haife of the lurie shall be the Aliens,
if so many be in that visne. 1651 tr. Kitchin's yurisdictions
(1657)574 The shcrif returns a Jury of the Visne of D.,
and the new sherif returns no such visne. 1769 Blackstone
Comm, IV, xxvii. 344 The sheriff of the county must
return a panel of jurors.., without just exception, and of
the visne or neighbourhood. 183a Index ofRolls ofParlt.
932/1 The Inquest taken by Men of the Visne of the County
where the Plaintiffs were born. 1867 SMVTHiW/or'j Word*
bk, 714 Visne, a neighbouring place; a term often used in
law in actions of marine replevin.
2. A jury summoned from the neighbourhood in
which the cause of action lies.
1633 Sir J. Borough .Sov. Brit. Seas (1651) 103 Replevin
was brought of a Ship taken upon the wast of Scarborough
..to which Mutford tooke two exceptions, one because no
certaine Towne, or place was named from whence the visne
should come. 1831 Sir F. Palcrave Eitg. Commiv. 11. 156
It did not occur to the Vehmic Judges to put the offender
upon hi< second trial by the visne, which now forms the
distinguishing characteristic of the English law. 1863 H.
Cox Insiit, 11, iii. 347 note. If the visne appearwJ on the
record to be from a wrong place, it wns a good ground for
arresting or reversing the judgment.
f 3. = Vknue 5. Obs. rare.
1641 [see Vf.nuk 5]. 1665 Ever Tryals per Pais viii. 85
Where the Visne is laid to be in a City, in an Action brought
in a superior Court [etc. J. 1768 [see Venue 5 b].
Visnet. rare. [a. OK. visnet (see prec.) or
Anglo-L, visnetum (also vicinetum).']
1 1. A trial by j'ury. Obs.
14.. in Sc. Acts Farlt. (1814) I. 378^2 NaGalowa man aw
tohaf visnet hot gif he refus ^^e law of Galowa and ask visnet.
2, Hist. = VI8NBI.
x87a Robertson Hist. Essays 122 The Twelve-hides
appears to have been usually regarded as a small visnet, or
neighbourhood. Ibid. 137.
tVisney. Obs. rare. [ad. Turk, vishnek, Pers.
unshneh cherry (with corresponding forms in the
Slavonic and other langunges of eastern Europe :
cf. the note to Gean).] A liqueur of the nature of
cherry brandy.
1733 W. Ellis Chiltem ^ Vale Farm. 143 Cherry Rrandy
. .to come up very near to the Liquor called Turkish VIsney,
that used to be sold at London for twenty Shillings per
Gallon. 1736 Hailev Household Diet., Visney. Fill a large
bottle or cask with morello cherries .. and till up the bottle
or vessel with brandy [etc].
Visnomy (vi-zn6mi). Now arch or dial. Also
6 vyse-, vice-, visnamy, visenomy, visnomye,
-nomie, 9 viznonay {dial, visomy), [var. of
'^\^,fisnomye : see Physiognomy.]
1. = Physiognomy 3.
1509 Hawrs Past. Pleas. (1555) R iij b, For you are euill
fauoured,and also vgly, I am the worse, to se your visnamy.
1556 Oldf. Antichrist 70 The.. Prophet Daniel, and the
Apostle Paule : which paynt out Antichristes visnomye unto
us wyth suchelyghtand euidence. 1591 Spenskr Muiopot.
311 Each of the Gods by his like visnomie Eathe to be
icnowen. 1605 Chapman .All Fools 11. i. 159 Then with a
bell regard advant mine eye With boldnes on her verie visnomie.
1640 Brome Sparagns Card. iii. v, Vou seldom see
a Poet look out at a good Visnomy.
1818 ScoTT Br. Lamm, xvi, The loon has woodie written
on his very visnomy. x8ai — Kcnil-w. x. My own ugly
viznomy. 1822 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Distant Correspondents,
Who would consult his sweet visnomy, if the polished surface
were two or three minutes.. in giving back its copy.
1838 J. P. Kennedy Rob o/'Bo^ulii, A thick gray moustache
gave a martial and veteran air to his visnomy.
1 2. = Physiognomy 2. Obs.~^
c 1540 Copland Hye Way to Spyttel Ho. ^52 For all the
seuen scyences surely he can; And is sure in physyk and
palmestry, In augury, sothsayeng and vysenamy.
Viso-meter, rare. [f. L.£/ij-«j sight + -ometkr.
Cf. VisuoMETER.] (See quot.)
1856^. Brit. Rev. Nov. 178 The first person .. who constructed
and used an apparatus, which he calls a visometer^
for determining the focal length of each eye, was Mr. Salom
of Edinburgh.
Vison (vai-san). [a. F. vison (Buffon), of obscure
origin.] The American mink. ,
By some writers Vison has been used as the name of the
genus Lutreola, to which the mink belongs.
1781-5 Smellik Bu_ffon's Nat. Hist. (1791) VII. 308 The
pekaiihasso strong a resemblance to the pine weasel, and the
vison to the martin, that they may be regarded as varieties
of these species. 1800 Shaw Gen. Zool. I. 11. 448 Vison,
Lutra Vison. . , This animal appears to approach . . extremely
near to the L. Lutreola, or Smaller Otter. 1843
T. E. Ghav List spec. Mammal. BHt. Mus. 64 The Mink,
or Nurck Vison, Vison Lutreola. 1864-5 J. G. Wood //«««
iviihout H. \. (1868) 22 The Mink, the Vison and other
weasels of Northern America are in the habit of retiring to
holes and crevices.
attrib. 1839 Penny Cycl. XV. 253/2 Minx, a name for the
Vison -weasel.
Visor, vizor (vsi-zaj), sb. Forms : a. 4-7
viser, vyser (6 wesser) ; 5 visere, vysere, Sc.
veseir, -ere. ^. 5-6 visar, Sc. wysar, 6 vysar,
6-7 (9) vizar ; Sc. 5-6 wosar, 6 vesar, vezar.
7. 5 vesotire, 6 visoure, vysour(e, 7 vizour, 6-7
(9) visour ; 6- visor, vizor (7 vizzor). [a. AF.
viser, f. F. vis face, Vice sb.'^ Cf. VisiilKE and
ViSURK.]
1, The front part of a helmet, covering the face
but provided with holes or openings to admit of
seeing and breathing, and capable of being raised
and lowered ; sometimes spec, the upper portion
of this.
a. 13.. Cocr de L. 323 Hys pusen therwith gan gon. And
also hys brandellet bon, Hys vyser and hys gorgere. C1330
R. Bbunne Chron. Wace (Rolls) 855* By J»e vyser he hym
hent, & held it til he had sesed his nekke. c 1400 Destr.
Troy 70(32 He . . voidet his viser, auentid hym seluyn.
1412-30 LvDc. Chron. Troy i. 4185 Lainedoun, with a des*
piteous chere. From his face raced his visere. 1464 Mann.
•V Ilouseh, Exp. (Roxb.) 194 My mastyr lent hym.. a salat
wyth a vesere of meleyn. 1470-85 Malorv Arthur v. xii.
18 1 Thenne the kyng aualyd his vyser with a meke & noble
countenaunce. a X533 Ld. Bernkrs Huon cxliv, 540 Then
Gloryand and Malabrone lyft vp theyr wessers and shewyd
theyr faces. i6n Cotgr., Visiere, the viser, or sight of an
helmet.
/5. c 1470 Henrv Wallace viii. 830 Ane other awkwart
apon the face tuk he ; Wysar and frount bathe in the feild
gert fle. Ibid. X. 386 Graym.-smate that knycht in tcyn,
'lowart the wesar, a litill be neth the eyn. 1507 Ace. Ld.
High Treas. Scot. III. 367 Item, for ane vesar to ane gret
hewmond and ane litill gard that beris the gret gard,..
Ivj s. 1508 Dunbar Poems vii. 76. 1530 Palsgr. 285/1
Vysar of harnes, uisiere dung armet.