Emily Dickinson Lexicon

VIEW, n. [vu.]

1. Prospect; sight; reach of the eye. The walls of Pluto's palace are in view. – Dryden.
2. The whole extent seen. Vast or extensive views present themselves to the eye.
3. Sight; power of seeing, or limit of sight. The mountain was not within our view.
4. Intellectual or mental sight. These things give us a just view of the designs of Providence.
5. Act of seeing. The facts mentioned were verified by actual view.
6. Sight; eye. Objects near our view are thought greater than those of larger size, that are more remote. – Locke.
7. Survey; inspection; examination by the eye. The assessors took a view of the premises. Surveying nature with too nice a view. – Dryden.
8. Intellectual survey; mental examination. On a just view of all the arguments in the case, the law appears to be clear.
9. Appearance; show. Graces … Which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew. – Waller.
10. Display; exhibition to the sight or mind. To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty. – Locke.
11. Prospect of interest. No man sets himself about any thing, but upon some view or other, which serves him for a reason. – Locke.
12. Intention; purpose; design. With that view he began the expedition. With a view to commerce, he passed through Egypt.
13. Opinion; manner of seeing or understanding. These are my views of the policy which ought to be pursued. View of frankpledge, in law, a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship or manor, before the steward of the leet. – Blackstone. Point of view, the direction in which a thing is seen.