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Webster 1913 Edition
Bise
{
, Bice
,Bise
}Noun.
[F.
bis
, akin to It. bigio
light gray, tawny.] (Paint.)
A pale blue pigment, prepared from the native blue carbonate of copper, or from smalt; – called also
blue bice
. Green bice
is prepared from the blue, by adding yellow orpiment, or by grinding down the green carbonate of copper.
Cooley.
Brande & C.
Bise
,Noun.
[F.]
A cold north wind which prevails on the northern coasts of the Mediterranean and in Switzerland, etc.; – nearly the same as the mistral.