a. [f. VISAGE sb.] Having a visage of a specified kind.

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  Frequent (from the 15th c.) as the second element in combs., e.g., black-, close-, double-, grim-, hard-, long-, sharp-visaged: see these adjs.

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13[?].  K. Alis., 6351 (Laud MS.). Anoþer folk bisyde is Visaged after hounde I wys.

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1607.  Walkington, Opt. Glass, 65. By reason of his sad heavy humor, always stoically visaged.

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1612.  Two Noble K., V. iii. 52. Arcite is gently visagd.

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1638.  Mayne, Lucian (1664), 132. Before his arrivall he made a linnen head to his Dragon, visaged like a Man, and painted like one.

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1865.  H. Bushnell, Vicar. Sacr., II. ii. (1868), 153. Christ passes before us visaged in sorrow.

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1894.  Heslop, Northumbld. Wds., 375. Hickory-fyeced, pock-marked, ill visaged.

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