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k; survey; examination by the eye; inspection. Thenceforth I thought thee worth my nearer view. Milton. Objects near our view are thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote. Locke. Surveying nature with too nice a view. Dryden.

One who views or examines.

The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.

Not perceivable by the eye; invisible; unseen. "Viewless winds." Shak. Swift through the valves the visionary fair Repassed, and viewless mixed with common air. Pope.

Pleasing to the sight; sightly. [Prov. Eng.]

Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person.

A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.

An opposite or opposing view; opposition; a posture in which two persons front each other. Within the gates of hell sat Death and Sin, In counterview. Milton M. Peisse has ably advocated the counterview in his preface and appendixx. Sir W. Hamilton.

A mutual sight or view; a meeting face to face; usually, a formal or official meeting for consultation; a conference; as, the secretary had an interview with the President.

One who interviews; especially, one who obtains an interview with another for the purpose of eliciting his opinions or obtaining information for publication. It would have made him the prince of interviewers in these days. Leslie Stephen.

The act or custom of holding an interview or interviews. An article on interviewing in the "Nation" of January 28, 1869, . . . was the first formal notice of the practice under that name. The American.

An inspection or overlooking. [Obs.] Shak.

te; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon.

To view or see again; to look back on [R.] "I shall review Sicilia." Shak.

Capable of being reviewed.

A review. [R.] Southey.

One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.

A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests

To survey; to make a survey of. [Obs.] "To surview his ground." Spenser.

See Underlooker.