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First published 1941 (SND Vol. II). Includes material from the 2005 supplement.
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BLACK-A-VICED, -VISED, -VIZED, adj. Also black-avizit. “Of a black complexion” (Sc. 1721 Ramsay Poems, Gloss.). Also fig. [′blɑkəvəist, -əvaɪzd, -əvist]Sc. 1826 Wilson Noctes Amb. (1855) I. 160:
You'll see an ill-faured, pock-marked, black-a-viced hizzie in the front laft.Fif. 1864 W. D. Latto Tammas Bodkin (1868) xxix.:
“Where is Mrs Bodkin,” inquired a lang black-a-viced man.Gsw. 1991 James Alex McCash in Tom Hubbard The New Makars 15:
Grey daylicht: blench progeny of lemon-coloured
Helios and wintrous, black-avizit Nicht.Arg.¹ 1929:
A wee, stumpy, blackaviced chap as dour as a whunstane.Ayr. 1826 Galt Last of the Lairds 169:
A blackavised, pockyawr'd, knock-kneed, potatoe-bogle o' a dominie.Uls. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gl. Ant. and Dwn.:
Black-a-vized. Dark-complexioned.

Hence black-a-vicedness, n.Fif. 1895 “S. Tytler” The Macdonald Lass xv.:
The black-a-vicedness remained, it is true, though he had striven to tone it down.