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wis


  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wis  \Wis\,  adv  [Aphetic  form  of  iwis,  ywis;  or  fr  Icel.  viss 
  certain.  See  {Ywis}.] 
  Certainly;  really;  indeed.  [Obs.]  ``As  wis  God  helpe  me.'' 
  --Chaucer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wis  \Wis\,  v.  t.  [Due  to  mistaking  OE  iwis  certain,  AS  gewiss 
  for  I  wis.  See  {Ywis}.] 
  To  think;  to  suppose;  to  imagine;  --  used  chiefly  in  the 
  first  person  sing.  present  tense,  I  wis.  See  the  Note  under 
  {Ywis}.  [Obs.  or  Poetic]  ``Howe'er  you  wis.''  --R.  Browning. 
 
  Nor  do  I  know  how  long  it  is  (For  I  have  lain 
  entranced,  I  wis).  --Coleridge. 




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