VIENNESE, vi-e-n[=e]s', or -n[=e]z', _adj._ pertaining to _Vienna_.--_n._
an inhabitant, or the inhabitants, of VIENNA.
VIEW, v[=u], _n._ a seeing: sight: reach of the sight: whole extent seen:
that which is seen: inspection, as by a jury, of the place of a crime, of
the corpse, &c.: direction in which a thing is seen: the picture of a
scene: a sketch: mental survey: mode of looking at or receiving: opinion:
intention: (_Shak._) show, appearance.--_v.t._ to see: to look at
attentively: to examine intellectually.--_adj._ VIEW'ABLE, that can be
viewed.--_ns._ VIEW'ER; VIEW'-HALLOO', the huntsman's cry when the fox
breaks cover; VIEW'INESS, character of being viewy or visionary.--_adj._
VIEW'LESS, not to be viewed: invisible.--_adv._ VIEW'LESSLY.--_adj._
VIEW'LY (_prov._), pleasing to look at.--_n._ VIEW'-POINT, point of
view.--_adjs._ VIEW'SOME (_prov._), viewly; VIEW'Y (_coll._), holding
opinions vague or purely speculative.--DISSOLVING VIEWS, pictures thrown on
a screen and made to pass one into the other; FIELD OF VIEW, the compass of
visual power; IN VIEW OF, having regard to; ON VIEW, open to public
inspection; TO THE VIEW (_Shak._), in public. [Fr. _vue_--_vu_, pa.p. of
_voir_--L. _vid[=e]re_, to see.]
VIFDA, vif'da, _n._ in Shetland, meat hung and dried without salt.--Also
VIV'DA.
VIGESIMAL, v[=i]-jes'i-mal, _adj._ twentieth.--_n._ VIGESIM[=A]'TION, the
putting to death of every twentieth man.--_adj._ VIGES'IMO-QUAR'TO, formed
of sheets folded so as to make twenty-four leaves. [L.
_vigesimus_--_viginti_, twenty.]
VIGIA, vi-j[=e]'a, _n._ a hydrographical warning on a chart, of a rock, &c.
[Sp.]
VIGIL, vij'il, _n._ watching: keeping awake for religious exercises: the
eve before a feast or fast day, originally kept by watching through the
night.--_n._ VIG'ILANCE, wakefulness: watchfulness: circumspection:
(_obs._) a guard, watch.--_adj._ VIG'ILANT, watchful: on the lookout for
danger: circumspect.--_n._ VIGILAN'TE, a member of a vigilance
committee.--_adv._ VIG'ILANTLY.--VIGILANCE COMMITTEE (_U.S._), an
unauthorised body which, in the absence or inefficiency of regular courts,
exercises legal powers of arrest, punishment, &c. in cases of gross crime:
also any self-appointed association for the compulsory improvement of local
morals. [Fr.,--L. _vigilia_--_vigil_, awake, watchful--_vig[=e]re_, to be
lively.]