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Vis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Force; power.

2. Physical force.

3. Moral power.

Vis-a-vis [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Face to face.

Vis-a-vis [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. One who, or that which, is face to face with another; esp., one who faces another in dancing.

2. A carriage in which two persons sit face to face. Also, a form of sofa with seats for two persons, so arranged that the occupants are face to face while sitting on opposite sides.

Visa [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

See Vis/.

Visa [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To indorse, after examination, with the word vise, as a passport; to vise.

Visaed [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Visa

Visage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. s as z. [Latin visus, video.]

2. The face; the countenance or look of a person, or of other animal; chiefly applied to human beings; as a wolfish visage

3. Love and beauty still that visage grace.

4. His visage was so marred, more than any man. Isaiah 52:14 .

Visage [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The face, countenance, or look of a person or an animal; -- chiefly applied to the human face.

Visage [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To face.

Visaged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Having a visage or countenance.

Visaged [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Having a visage.

Visaing [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Visa

Visard [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A mask. See Visor.

Visard [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To mask.

Viscacha [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Alt. of Viz-cacha

Viscera [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. The bowels or intestines; the contents of the abdomen and thorax.

2. In its most general sense, the organs contained in any cavity of the body, particularly in the three venters, the head, thorax and abdomen.

Viscera [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

pl. of Viscus.

Viscera [Plural] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Viscus

Visceral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Pertaining to the viscera or intestines.

2. Feeling; having sensibility. [Unusual.]

Visceral [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Of or pertaining to the viscera; splanchnic.

2. Fig.: Having deep sensibility.

Viscerate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To exenterate; to embowel; to deprive of the entrails or viscera. [Eviscerate is generally used.]

Viscerate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To deprive of the viscera, or entrails; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Viscerated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Viscerate

Viscerating [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Viscerate

Visceroskeletal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Of or pertaining to the framework, or skeleton, or skeleton, of the viscera; as, the visceroskeletal system of muscles.

Viscid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Glutinous; sticky; tenacious; not readily separating; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc. are more or less viscid

Viscid [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sticking or adhering, and having a ropy or glutinous consistency; viscous; glutinous; sticky; tenacious; clammy; as, turpentine, tar, gums, etc., are more or less viscid.

Viscidity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Glutinousness; tenacity; stickiness.

2. Glutinous concretion.

Viscidity [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

The quality or state of being viscid; also, that which is viscid; glutinous concretion; stickiness.

Viscin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A clear, viscous, tasteless substance extracted from the mucilaginous sap of the mistletoe (Viscum album), holly, etc., and constituting an essential ingredient of birdlime.

Viscoidal [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Somewhat viscous. Cf. Mobile, a., 2.

Visconti Encyclopedia Britannica

VISCONTI. See Milan, vol. xvi. p. 293.

9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 24, p. 261
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Genesis 8:5

And the waters decreased continually until the tenth month: in the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.

Genesis 15:1

After these things the word of the LORD came unto Abram in a vision, saying, Fear not, Abram: I am thy shield, and thy exceeding great reward.

After these events, the word of the LORD came to Abram in a vision: “Do not be afraid, Abram. I am your shield, your very great reward.”

Genesis 21:1

And the LORD visited Sarah as he had said, and the LORD did unto Sarah as he had spoken.

Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.

Genesis 34:1

And Dinah the daughter of Leah, which she bare unto Jacob, went out to see the daughters of the land.

Now Dinah, the daughter Leah had borne to Jacob, went out to visit the daughters of the land.

Genesis 46:2

And God spake unto Israel in the visions of the night, and said, Jacob, Jacob. And he said, Here am I.

And that night God spoke to Israel in a vision: “Jacob, Jacob!” He said. “Here I am,” replied Jacob.

Genesis 50:24

And Joseph said unto his brethren, I die: and God will surely visit you, and bring you out of this land unto the land which he sware to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob.

Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.”

Genesis 50:25

And Joseph took an oath of the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you, and ye shall carry up my bones from hence.

And Joseph made the sons of Israel take an oath and said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones up from this place.”

Exodus 3:16

Go, and gather the elders of Israel together, and say unto them, The LORD God of your fathers, the God of Abraham, of Isaac, and of Jacob, appeared unto me, saying, I have surely visited you, and seen that which is done to you in Egypt:

Go, assemble the elders of Israel and say to them, ‘The LORD, the God of your fathers—the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob—has appeared to me and said: I have surely attended to you and have seen what has been done to you in Egypt.

Exodus 4:31

And the people believed: and when they heard that the LORD had visited the children of Israel, and that he had looked upon their affliction, then they bowed their heads and worshipped.

and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 13:19

And Moses took the bones of Joseph with him: for he had straitly sworn the children of Israel, saying, God will surely visit you; and ye shall carry up my bones away hence with you.

Moses took the bones of Joseph with him because Joseph had made the sons of Israel swear a solemn oath when he said, “God will surely attend to you, and then you must carry my bones with you from this place.”

Exodus 20:5

Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;

You shall not bow down to them or worship them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Exodus 32:34

Therefore now go, lead the people unto the place of which I have spoken unto thee: behold, mine Angel shall go before thee: nevertheless in the day when I visit I will visit their sin upon them.

Now go, lead the people to the place I described. Behold, My angel shall go before you. But on the day I settle accounts, I will punish them for their sin.”

Exodus 34:7

Keeping mercy for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, and that will by no means clear the guilty; visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, and upon the children’s children, unto the third and to the fourth generation.

maintaining loving devotion to a thousand generations, forgiving iniquity, transgression, and sin. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers on their children and grandchildren to the third and fourth generations.”

Leviticus 18:25

And the land is defiled: therefore I do visit the iniquity thereof upon it, and the land itself vomiteth out her inhabitants.

Even the land has become defiled, so I am punishing it for its sin, and the land will vomit out its inhabitants.

Numbers 12:6

And he said, Hear now my words: If there be a prophet among you, I the LORD will make myself known unto him in a vision, and will speak unto him in a dream.

He said, “Hear now My words: If there is a prophet among you, I, the LORD, will reveal Myself to him in a vision; I will speak to him in a dream.

Numbers 14:18

The LORD is longsuffering, and of great mercy, forgiving iniquity and transgression, and by no means clearing the guilty, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation.

‘The LORD is slow to anger and abounding in loving devotion, forgiving iniquity and transgression. Yet He will by no means leave the guilty unpunished; He will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon their children to the third and fourth generation.’

Numbers 16:29

If these men die the common death of all men, or if they be visited after the visitation of all men; then the LORD hath not sent me.

If these men die a natural death, or if they suffer the fate of all men, then the LORD has not sent me.

Numbers 24:4

He hath said, which heard the words of God, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:

Numbers 24:16

He hath said, which heard the words of God, and knew the knowledge of the most High, which saw the vision of the Almighty, falling into a trance, but having his eyes open:

the prophecy of one who hears the words of God, who has knowledge from the Most High, who sees a vision from the Almighty, who bows down with eyes wide open:

Deuteronomy 5:9

Thou shalt not bow down thyself unto them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me,