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Wis

wɪs
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Wis
    Certainly; really; indeed. "As wis God helpe me."
  2. Wis
    To think; to suppose; to imagine; -- used chiefly in the first person sing. present tense, I wis. See the Note under Ywis. "Howe'er you wis .", "Nor do I know how long it isFor I have lain entranced, I wis )."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) wis
    An abbreviation of Wisconsin.
  2. wis
    Certain; sure: especially in the phrases to wisse, for certain, certainly; mid wisse, with certainty.
  3. wis
    Certainly; truly; indeed: same as iwis.
  4. wis
    A spurious word, arising from a misunderstanding of the Middle English adverb iwis, often written i-wis, and in Middle English manuscripts i wis, I wis, whence it has been taken as the pronoun I with a verb wis, vaguely regarded as connected with wit (which has a preterit wist). See iwis, and, for the real verb, see wit.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. Wis
    wis v. (in the form I wis) erroneously used as 'I know.'
Etymology

Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary Due to mistaking OE. iwis, certain, AS. gewiss, for I wis,. See Ywis

Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary I wis is the M. E. adv. i-wis—A.S. ge-wis, certainly; cf. Ger. ge-wiss.

Usage in the news

Rewolinski, RLA, ASLA, has joined Stantec in Milwaukee, Wis. As a senior landscape architect . northstarpubs.com

She was born May 20, 1923 in Stevens Point, Wis. chestertontribune.com

Located on Wesfields health campus in New Richmond, Wis. ecmpostreview.com

MADISON, Wis — President Obama's senior campaign adviser David Axelrod is a former journalist who loves a good quip. ashingtonpost.com

(MILWAUKEE, WIS.) – December 15, 2010 – Master Lock Company has discovered the ideal method to maintain the performance and increase the life of security products. securityinfowatch.com

The American Club resort in Kohler, Wis. North of Milwaukee, offers spa suites that include in-room massage and a whirlpool. usatoday.com

The ship, named for Fort Worth, Texas, the 17th largest city in the United States and the 5th largest city in Texas, was built in Marinette, Wis. And was commissioned in Galveston, Texas, Sept 22. marinelink.com

About Marten Transport, Ltd Headquartered in Mondovi, Wis. rpmfortruckers.com

The worldwide core technology center for the new business unit is located in Hudson, Wis. ceramicindustry.com

Merlin and Jean Gandrud, Mt Pleasant, Wis. minotdailynews.com

Has added a Mitsubishi 510 Suprema waterjet machine with a 90,000-PSI KMT pump to its facility in Waukesha, Wis. thefabricator.com

Reports Norton's mom of Eau Claire, Wis. Subject. twincities.com

Wife of Dodger's catcher delivers baby on Wis. Sunday morning forecast. mur.com

Wife of Dodger's catcher delivers baby on Wis. koat.com

Wife of Dodger's catcher delivers baby on Wis. Area police investigate string of flashings. ptz.com

Usage in scientific papers

Otherwise we can use U to find |wiS ≡ |w ; wiS and, after all, to calculate G¨odel proposition pw (w).
The G\"odelizing Quantum-Mechanical Automata

Let us take the state of the system S to be |wiS .
The G\"odelizing Quantum-Mechanical Automata

Given the dissimilar weight wij between any two nodes i and j connected directly, the interaction Jij reads 1/wij if i and j are connected directly, reads 1/mins (wis + wsj ) if i and j are next nearest-neighbor and reads 0 for other conditions.
Effects of Weight on Structure and Dynamics in Complex Networks

We are grateful to the WIS for financial support making this possible.
Tensor Products of Random Unitary Matrices

In order to test the feasibility of lattice non-perturbative calculations in the QT gauge, it has been calculated the renormalisation constant ZA of the axial current by using WI’s on quark states.
Problems in Lattice Gauge Fixing

Usage in literature

He wis above me, d'ye ken? "Tam O' The Scoots" by Edgar Wallace

E. A. Birge, State University, Madison, Wis., and enclosing thirty cents. "The Tree-Dwellers" by Katharine Elizabeth Dopp

WOMAN'S MISSIONARY SOCIETY, River Falls, Wis. FIRST CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH, Great Barrington, Mass. "American Missionary - Volume 50, No. 9, September, 1896" by Various

Verily I wis that thou didst trump ye club aforetime. "Miss Mapp" by Edward Frederic Benson

I-wis, it was a thing all too dear To be bestowed, and wist not where! "Tudor and Stuart Love Songs" by Various

For this is our order, I-wis, Under the green-wood tree! "Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse" by Various

GRAY, ALMEDIA, suit under Wis. school suff. "The Life and Work of Susan B. Anthony (Volume 2 of 2)" by Ida Husted Harper

Then the Belgian jumped up and shouted, 'Ee interfere wis my frien'! "Aliens" by William McFee

That wis a' he kent aboot it, an' th' Dutchman begood his yarn. "The Brassbounder" by David W. Bone

There's the 1st and 21st Wis. in Rousseau's Division, and the 10th Wis. "Si Klegg, Book 3 (of 6) Si And Shorty Meet Mr. Rosenbaum, The Spy, Who Relates His Adventures" by John McElroy

Usage in poetry
“’I am but free, as sorrow is,
To dry her tears, to laugh, to talk;
And free, as sick men are, I wis
To rise and walk.
Now I say to myself, "What spirit is this
That pipes so clear and strong;
For it cannot be a bird, I wis,
That sings such a wondrous song.
Ay, weel micht he jump like daft, for he saw
A joyfu' sicht, I wis;
Instead o' the shillin' a guinea lay there,
That by nae kent law was his.
My love’s unchanged—though time, alas!
Turns silver-gilt the golden mass
Of flowing hair, and pales, I wis,
The rose that deepened with that kiss—
The first—before our marriage was.
Ah, fool! quoth she, wist thou not what it is?
Oft as I say OSEE, OSEE, I wis,
Then mean I, that I should be wonderous fain
That shamefully they one and all were slain,
Whoever against Love mean aught amiss.
Oh! that is a beautiful land, I wis,
The land of the Gone-away Souls.
Yes, a lovelier region by far than this
(Though this is a world most fair).
The goodliest goal of all good goals,
Else why do our friends stay there?