They are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge. Jer. iv. 22.

When clouds appear, wise men put their cloaks. Shak.

From a child thou hast known the holy scriptures, which are able to make thee wise unto salvation. 2 Tim. iii. 15.

Fal. There was, mine host, an old fat woman even now with me; but she's gone.
Sim. Pray you, sir, was't not the wise woman of Brentford? Shak.

Nor, on the other side,
Will I be penuriously wise
As to make money, that's my slave, my idol. Beau. *** Fl.

Lords do not care for me:
I am too wise to die yet. Ford.

To make it wise, to make it a matter of deliberation. [Obs.] " We thought it was not worth to make it wise." Chaucer. -- Wise in years, old enough to be wise; wise from age and experience; hence, aged; old. [Obs.]

A very grave, state bachelor, my dainty one;
He's wise in years, and of a temperate warmth. Ford.

You are too wise in years, too full of counsel,
For my green experience. Ford.

To love her in my beste wyse. Chaucer.

This song she sings in most commanding wise. Sir P. Sidney.

Let not these blessings then, sent from above,
Abused be, or spilt in profane wise. Fairfax.

* This word is nearly obsolete, except in such phrases as in any wise, in no wise, on this wise, etc. " Fret not thyself in any wise to do evil." Ps. xxxvii. 8. "He shall in no wise lose his reward." Matt. x. 42. " On this wise ye shall bless the children of Israel." Num. vi. 23.

* Wise is often used as a suffix in composition, as in likewise, nowise, lengthwise, etc., in which words -ways is often substituted with the same sense; as, noways, lengthways, etc.