Showing good judgement or the benefit of experience.
Storing extra food for the winter was a wise decision.
Disrespectful.
Don't get wise with me!
Aware, informed (to something).
Be careful: the boss is wise to your plan to call out sick.
To become wise.
Usually with "up", to inform or learn.
Mo wised him up about his situation.
Way, manner, or method.
In such wise that all the beasts, great and small, came to the court save Reynard the Fox.
A surname.
A township in Isabella County, Michigan, United States.
An unincorporated community in Warren County, North Carolina, United States.
From Middle English wis, wys, from Old English wīs (“wise”), from Proto-Germanic *wīsaz (“wise”), from Proto-Indo-European *weydstos, *weydtos, a participle form of *weyd-. Cognate with Dutch wijs, Ge...
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To instruct.