Word Meanings - PERLUSTRATION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of viewing all over. Howell.

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• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• VIEWLESS
  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.
• VIEWINESS
  The quality or state of being viewy, or of having unpractical views.
• VIEWLY; VIEWSOME
  Pleasing to the sight; sightly.
• VIEWY
  1. Having peculiar views; fanciful; visionary; unpractical; as, a viewy person. 2. Spectacular; pleasing to the eye or the imagination. A government intent on showy absurdities and viewy enterprises rather than solid work. London Spectator.
• VIEWER
  A person appointed to inspect highways, fences, or the like, and to report upon the same. 3. The superintendent of a coal mine. (more info) 1. One who views or examines.
• VIEW
  voir, p. p. vu, fr. L. videre to see. See Vision, and cl. Interview, 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
• SELF-VIEW
  A view if one's self; specifically, carefulness or regard for one's own interests
• COUNTERVIEW
  1. 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.
• REVIEW
  Etym: 1. To view or see again; to look back on "I shall review Sicilia." Shak. 2. To go over and examine critically or deliberately. Specifically: To reconsider; to revise, as a manuscript before printing it, or a book for a new edition. To go
• REVIEWABLE
  Capable of being reviewed.
• UNDERVIEWER
  See UNDERLOOKER
• PURVIEW
  The limit or scope of a statute; the whole extent of its intention or provisions. Marshall. Profanations within the purview of several statutes. Bacon. 2. Limit or sphere of authority; scope; extent. In determining the extent of information required
• REVIEWER
  One who reviews or reëxamines; an inspector; one who examines publications critically, and publishes his opinion upon their merits; a professional critic of books.
• INTERVIEWING
  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.
• OVERVIEW
  An inspection or overlooking. Shak.
• INTERVIEWER
  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.
• INTERVIEW
  to have a glimpse of, s'entrevoir to visit each other. See Inter-, 1. 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. 2.
• REVIEWAL
  A review. Southey.
• SURVIEW
  To survey; to make a survey of. "To surview his ground." Spenser.
• BY-VIEW
  A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.