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To look down upon from a place that is over or above; to look over or view from a higher position; to rise above, so as to command a view of; as, to overlook a valley from a hill. "The pile o'erlooked the town." Dryden. [Titan] with burning eye did hotly overlook them. Shak.

o pass over; to omit; to overlook; to disregard. All the beauties of the East He slightly viewed and slightly overpassed. Milton.

Open to view; public; apparent; manifest. Overt and apparent virtues bring forth praise. Bacon.

A complete view in every direction.

Belonging to, or representative of, those who hold Presbyterian views in all parts of the world; as, a Panpresbyterian council.

Viewing all; taking a view of the whole. See under Camera.

A general description; entire view of an object.

A systematic view of all branches of human knowledge; a work of universal information.

roops, in full equipments, for inspection or evolutions before some superior officer; a review of troops. Parades are general, regimental, or private (troop, battery, or company), according to the force assembled.

r difference of position, of an object, as seen from two different stations, or points of view.

n meadow pipit (Anthus pratensis). Peep show, a small show, or object exhibited, which is viewed through an orifice or a magnifying glass. -- Peep-o'-day boys, the Irish insurgents of 1784; -- so called from their visiting the house of the loyal Irish at day break in search of arms. [Cant]

Lost to view; in concealment or ambush; close. He should lie perdue who is to walk the round. Fuller.

A general or comprehensive view. [R.]

Viewing all around, or on all sides. Periscopic spectacles (Opt.), spectacles having concavo-convex or convexo-concave lenses with a considerable curvature corresponding to that of the eye, to increase the distinctness of objects viewed obliquely.

The act of viewing all over. [Archaic] Howell.

perplexed, and too hard for our weak parts, will lie open to the understanding in a fair view. Locke.

ure, air, and the like, of a person. "In personage stately." Hayward. The damsel well did view his personage. Spenser.

A glass through which objects are viewed. [Obs.] "Not a perspective, but a mirror." Sir T. Browne.

and outlines of objects, so as to represent them in their proper geometrical relations as viewed from some one point.

The act of carefully viewing or examining. [R.] Tatler.