Crossword clues for vizor
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Visor \Vis"or\, n. [OE. visere, F. visi[`e]re, fr. OF. vis. See Visage, Vision.] [Written also visar, visard, vizard, and vizor.]
A part of a helmet, arranged so as to lift or open, and so show the face. The openings for seeing and breathing are generally in it.
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A mask used to disfigure or disguise. ``My very visor began to assume life.''
--Shak.My weaker government since, makes you pull off the visor.
--Sir P. Sidney. The fore piece of a cap, projecting over, and protecting the eyes.
Wiktionary
n. a visor
WordNet
Usage examples of "vizor".
His helmet was of old rusty iron, but the vizor was brass, which, tainted by his breath, corrupted into copperas, nor wanted gall from the same fountain, so that, whenever provoked by anger or labour, an atramentous quality, of most malignant nature, was seen to distil from his lips.
The typical head-piece of the 17th-century soldier in England and elsewhere is a burgonet skull-cap with a straight brim, neck-guard and often, in addition, a fixed vizor of three thin iron bars which are screwed into, and hang down from, the brim in front of the eyes.
And now, as the spear of the retiarius was not a weapon to inflict instant and certain death, there stalked into the arena a grim and fatal form, brandishing a short, sharp sword, and with features utterly concealed beneath its vizor.
For each man comes to that place fully armed and in mail, though each surcote is of undyed and unembroidered linen, and the vizor of each helm lowered, and though every man carries in his gauntleted hand a sword, it has no mark.
After several foulmouthed scourings and spillages I managed to make some coffee in one of the silver utensils ranked like vizors down the length of the kitchen shelf.
George hanging from it, and upon his head a vizored bascinet, ornamented with a wreath covered with black and yellow velvet and glistening with jewels.
He was a short man of great breadth of shoulder, with vizor closed, and no blazonry upon his simple white surcoat or plain black shield.
And ever as these plaudits shook the air, Through vizored casque at Yolande he would stare.
Locking down the vizor of his armet, he caught up his lance and urged Angel forward at a fast trot.
The heavy spike pean gouged through the barred vizor of the other’s armet.
In a burst of panic, Jarvo knew he was going to be pulled beneath the fen by the weight of his armor—that scum and foetid slime would trickle through the vizor of his armet, drowning him in filth as he sank within his steel casket into the bottomless morass.
A young white patrolman, in jackboots and short-sleeved blue shirt and vizored helmet, was approaching.