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beholds; a beholder; one who is personally present at, and sees, any exhibition; as, the spectators at a show. "Devised and played to take spectators." Shak.

Of or pertaining to a spectator. Addison.

The office or quality of a spectator. [R.] Addison.

inister. A fountain . . . administers to the pleasure as well as the plenty of the place. Spectator.

k, drugs, coin, etc. The present war has . . . adulterated our tongue with strange words. Spectator.

etched and vivid anatomism of their [i. e., the French] great figure painters. The London Spectator.

A halo opposite the sun, consisting of a colored ring or rings around the shadow of the spectator's own head, as projected on a cloud or on an opposite fog bank.

To be present as a spectator; as, to assist at a public meeting. [A Gallicism] Gibbon. Prescott.

an has been guilty of any vice, the best atonement be can make for it is, to warn others. Spectator. The Phocians behaved with, so much gallantry, that they were thought to have made a sufficient atonement for their former offense. Potter.

One who beholds; a spectator.

Mildness; gentleness. The benignity or inclemency of the season. Spectator.

(anything) with ornaments or prominent objects. A robe of azure beset with drops of gold. Spectator. The garden is so beset with all manner of sweet shrubs that it perfumes the air. Evelyn.

A love letter or note. A lover chanting out a billet-doux. Spectator.

One who cheats; a sharper. [Colloq.] Spectator.

little blemishes and imperfections that discover themselves in an illustrious character. Spectator.

ds at the hotel. We are several of us, gentlemen and ladies, who board in the same house. Spectator.

A short wig with bobs or short curls; -- called also bobtail wig. Spectator.

also, to enlarge the scope of one's business, etc. To branch out into a long disputation. Spectator.

close minister is buttoned up, and the brave officer open- breasted, on these occasions. Spectator.

Having a brim; -- usually in composition. "Broad-brimmed hat." Spectator.