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See Grub, n., 1. And gnats and grubworms crowded on his view. C. Smart.

ne to inquire into the cause of a person's imprisonment or detention by another, with the view to protect the right to personal liberty; also, one to bring a prisoner into court to testify in a pending trial. Bouvier.

An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint. Hook.

Consisting of a moiety, or half; as, a half bushel; a half hour; a half dollar; a half view.

nifesting hate or hatred; malignant; malevolent. [Archaic or R.] And worse than death, to view with hateful eyes His rival's conquest. Dryden.

suited to the character and institutions of the American people. (b) Improperly, certain views or principles erroneously ascribed to Father Hecker in a French translation of Elliott's Life of Hecker. They were condemned as "Americanism" by the Pope, in a letter to Cardinal Gibbons, January 22, 1899.…

tude, etc. (of a heavenly body), the direction, latitude, longitude, etc., of the body as viewed from the sun.

e and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

A telescope or instrument for viewing the sun without injury to the eyes, as through colored glasses, or with mirrors which reflect but a small portion of light. -- He`li*o*scop`ic, a.

To search for plants, or new species of plants, with a view to classifying them. He herborized as he traveled. W. Tooke.

or follower of the "liberal" party, headed by Elias Hicks, which, because of a change of views respecting the divinity of Christ and the Atonement, seceded from the conservative portion of the Society of Friends in the United States, in 1827.

from Hide. Concealed; put out of view; secret; not known; mysterious. Hidden fifths or octaves (Mus.), consecutive fifths or octaves, not sounded, but suggested or implied in the parallel motion of two parts towards a fifth or an octave.

To conceal, or withdraw from sight; to put out of view; to secrete. A city that is set on an hill can not be hid. Matt. v. 15. If circumstances lead me, I will find Where truth is hid. Shak.

The act of hiding or concealing, or of withholding from view or knowledge; concealment. There was the hiding of his power. Hab. iii. 4.

art or practice of casting horoscopes, or observing the disposition of the stars, with a view to prediction events.

A muster or review. Spenser.

Pertaining to humanitarians, or to humanitarianism; as, a humanitarian view of Christ's nature.

ans in denying the divinity of Christ; also, the whole system of doctrine based upon this view of Christ.

Hydrogen; -- called also in view of its supposed metallic nature. Graham.

A show or exhibition having a great number of scenes or views.