View

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Appearance; show; aspect.

II. View ·noun The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; survey; examination by the eye; inspection.

III. View ·noun Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.

IV. View ·noun The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, /ither drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.

V. View ·noun Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.

VI. View ·vt To survey or examine mentally; to Consider; as, to view the subject in all its aspects.

VII. View ·noun That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.

VIII. View ·noun That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.

IX. View ·noun Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.

X. View ·vt To See; to Behold; especially, to look at with attention, or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye; to Inspect; to Explore.

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