a. north. dial. Also -viced, -vized. [f. BLACK a. and F. vis face; perh. originally black-à-vis, or black o’ vis; but this is uncertain.] Dark-complexioned.
a. 1758. Ramsay, Poems (1800), II. 362 (Jam.). A black-a-vic’d snod dapper fallow.
1816. Scott, Old Mort., xi.
1848. C. Brontë, Jane Eyre (1857), xvii. I would advise her black aviced suitor to look out.
1881. Black, Sunrise (ed. 5), III. 99. The fat black-a-vised Italian.
