viss (vis)

[ lent to about 3 pounds 5 ounces. vista (vis'tä), n. [Formerly also, erroneously, risto; The tents are all ranged in a straight line:... and is there not a horrid uniformity in their infinite vista of canvas? Sheridan (?), The Camp, ii. 3. Terminal figures, columns of marble or granite porticoes, arches, are seen in the vistas of the wood paths. Hawthorne , Marble Faun, viii. Hence-2. Figuratively, a vision; a view presented to the mind in prospect or in retrospect by the imagination: as, a vista of pleasure to come; dim vistas of the past. There is something exceedingly delusive in thus looking back through the long vista of departed years, and catching a glimpse of the fairy realms of antiquity. Prima vista. See prima . Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 138. vistaed (vis'täd), a. [ Same as visitatorial .