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The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance. [R.] "The basilisk killeth by aspect." Bacon. His aspect was bent on the ground. Sir W. Scott.

The ratio of the long to the short side of an aëroplane, aërocurve, or wing.

Capable of being; visible. "The aspectable world." Ray. "Aspectable stars." Mrs. Browning.

Facing each other.

Having an aspect. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

The act of viewing; a look. [Obs.]

elongs to something else deemed the principal; something additional and subordinate. "The aspect and accessories of a den of banditti." Carlyle.

To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs.

Personal presence; exhibition of the person; look; aspect; mien. And now am come to see . . . It thy appearance answer loud report. Milton.

Of the aspect of a spider's web; arachnoid.

One who practices astrology; one who professes to foretell events by the aspects and situation of the stars.

fluences of the stars upon human affairs, and of foretelling events by their position and aspects.

Of a quality inspiring mingled admiration and reverence; having an aspect of solemn dignity or grandeur; sublime; majestic; having exalted birth, character, state, or authority. "Forms august." Pope. "August in visage." Dryden. "To shed that august blood." Macaulay. So beautiful and so august a spectacle. Burke. To min…

Arrayed for battle; fit or eager for battle; warlike. [Obs.] "In battailous aspect." Milton.

Purport; meaning; intended significance; aspect.

s, gentleness, favor, etc.; mild; kindly; salutary; wholesome. Kind influences and benign aspects. South.

The quality of being benign; goodness; kindness; graciousness. "Benignity of aspect." Sir W. Scott.

An aspect of the planets when they are distant from each other by twice the fifth part of a great circle -- that is, twice 72 degrees.

Having a black, dark, or gloomy face or aspect.

uff or bold shore." Falconer. Its banks, if not really steep, had a bluff and precipitous aspect. Judd.