Obs. exc. dial. Also wyse. [OE. wîse; cf. ON. vísir: ultimate relations doubtful.] The stalk or stem of a plant; esp. a trailing stem or runner, as of the strawberry.
a. 1000. Riddles, lxvi. 4. Æʓhwa mec reafað,… min heafod scireþ, biteð mec on bær lic, briceð mine wisan.
c. 1000. Sax. Leechd., II. 36. Streawberʓean wise.
c. 1050. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 415/34. Gesce, eall hwite wysan.
c. 1425. Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903), 310. Tak an handful of Bugyl, an oþer of strawebery wyse.
c. 1440. MS. Lincoln A. i. 17, lf. 280 (Halliw.). Take the wyse of tormentile, and bray it.
c. 1440. Promp. Parv., 531/1. Wyse, of strawbery (P. or pesyn), fragus.
c. 1450. [see strawberry wise, STRAWBERRY 8].
