Brewer's: Revise

(2 syl.). The second proof-sheet submitted to an author or “reader.”

“I at length reached a vaulted room, ... and beheld, seated by a lamp and employed in reading a blotted revise ... the author of Waverley.” —SirWalterScott: Fortunes of Nigel (Introduction).

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