visite (vizet)

[F., visit: see visit.] An outer garment worn by women in the first half of the nineteenth century, thin, made of silk or like material, and shaped to the person. visiter (viz'i-ter), n. [ His visiter observed the look, and proceeded. Dickens . visiting (viz'i-ting), n. [Verbal n. of visit , v.] 1. The act or practice of paying visits or making calls. Also used adjectively. The busine of her life was to get her daughters married: its solace was visiting and news. Jane Austen , Pride and Prejudice, i. Our ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with. Sheridan, The Rivals, iv. 1. 2. Prompting; influence. No compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. Shak . , Macbeth, i. 5. 46. visiting (viz'i-ting), p. a. [Ppr. of visit, v.] That visits; often, of persons, authorized to visit and inspect: as, a visiting committee. visiting-ant (viz'i-ting-ant), n . The driver-ant. visiting-book (viz'i-ting-bük), visiting-ani n. A book con taining a list of names of persons who are to be called upon or who have called. The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary The Bishop went and wrote his name down in the visit ing - book at Gaunt House that very day. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, lv.