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Webster 1913 Edition


Vizard

Viz′ard

,
Noun.
[See
Visor
.]
A mask; a visor.
[Archaic]
“A grotesque vizard.”
Sir W. Scott.
To mislead and betray them under the
vizard
of law.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition


Vizard

VIZ'ARD

,
Noun.
a mask. [See Visor.]

VIZ'ARD

,
Verb.
T.
To mask.

Definition 2024


vizard

vizard

English

Alternative forms

  • vizzard

Noun

vizard (plural vizards)

  1. (archaic) A mask worn to disguise or protect the face.
    A grotesque vizard. -Sir W. Scott
    There, then, that vizard, that superfluous case, that hid the worse and show'd the better face.-- Shakespeare, Love's Labors Lost V.ii.387
  2. A pretense
    To mislead and betray them under the vizard of law. - John Milton