View n.
 1. The act of seeing or beholding; sight; look; 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 that are more remote.   --Locke.
    Surveying nature with too nice a view.   --Dryden.
 2. Mental survey; intellectual perception or examination; as, a just view of the arguments or facts in a case.
    I have with exact view perused thee, Hector.   --Shak.
 3. Power of seeing, either physically or mentally; reach or range of sight; extent of prospect.
    The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.   --Dryden.
 4. That which is seen or beheld; sight presented to the natural or intellectual eye; scene; prospect; as, the view from a window.
    'T is distance lends enchantment to the view.   --Campbell.
 5. The pictorial representation of a scene; a sketch, either drawn or painted; as, a fine view of Lake George.
 6. Mode of looking at anything; manner of apprehension; conception; opinion; judgment; as, to state one's views of the policy which ought to be pursued.
    To give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty.   --Locke.
 7. That which is looked towards, or kept in sight, as object, aim, intention, purpose, design; as, he did it with a view of escaping.
    No man sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason.   --Locke.
 8. Appearance; show; aspect.  [Obs.]
 [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view
 Dazzled, before we never knew.   --Waller.
 Field of view. See under Field.
 Point of view. See under Point.
 To have in view, to have in mind as an incident, object, or aim; as, to have one's resignation in view.
 View halloo, the shout uttered by a hunter upon seeing the fox break cover.
 View of frankpledge Law, a court of record, held in a hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet. --Blackstone.
 View of premises Law, the inspection by the jury of the place where a litigated transaction is said to have occurred.