aviso

noun3

1. •
   A kind of dispatch boat or "advice boat", carrying orders before the development of effective remote communication; an advice boat, or dispatch boat.
2. •
   A mid-sized colonial warship.
3. •
   Advisory; information; advice; intelligence.

   • I am not foot-poast, / No pedlar of Aviso's, no monopolist / Of forged Corantos, monger of Gazets. — 1638