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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XI).
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Vise, Weyse, n.⁴ [In the later dial. See SND Vise n., see also OED Vees n.², Veise, Vestigia, Vise n.² for further 18th and 19th c. examples; ? f. Wis(e n. manner, way, cf. sense e.] — 1672 Sinclair Hydrostaticks 281.
Where the coal is not quite cut off by the gae but hath its course only altered, you are to consider, in searching for it before you pierce your gae, that which the coal-hewers term the vise or some of them the weyse of the gae, which in effect is nothing else, but a dark vestige of the dipp or rise, that the body which now constitutes the gae, should have had naturally, if it had been perfected