vie 
He cometh in only with jolly brags and great vaunts, 
as if he were playing at post, and should win all by r'/'".'/. 
Bp. Jewell, Controversy with M. Harding, iv. 
To vie was to hazard, to put down a certain sum upon a 
hand of cards. 
Gifford, Note on B. Jouson's Every Man in his Humour, 
[iv. 1. 
2. To strive for superiority; endeavor to be 
equal or superior (to); contend; rival: followed 
by with, and said of persons or things. 
Fortune did vie with nature, to bestow, 
Whun I was born, her bounty equally. 
Beau, and Fl., Laws of Candy, li. 1. 
Albion in Verse mth antient Greece had mj'd, 
And gain'd alone a Fame. 
Congreve, Epistle to Lord Halifax. 
Gold furze irith broom in blossom vie*. 
M. A mold, Stanzas composed at Carnac. 
II. trans. If. To offer as a stake, as in card- 
playing; play as for a wager with. 
She hung upon my neck, and kiss on kiss 
She vied so fast Shak., T. of the S., ii. 1. 311. 
Here's a trick vied and revied ! 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 1. 
2. To put or bring into competition; bandy; 
try to outdo in ; contend with respect to. [Ob- 
solete or archaic.] 
Nature wants stuff 
To vie strange forms with fancy. 
Shak., A. and C., v. 2. 98. 
Now thine eyes 
Vi tears with the hyna. 
B. Jonson, Volpone, iv. 2. 
The roguish eye of J 11 . . . almost invites a stranger 
to vie a repartee with it. Lamb, Old Benchers. 
vie 1 (vl), n. [Formerly also vye ; (vie 1 ,)}. Cf. 
ent'i^.] A contest for superiority, especially a 
close or keen contest; a contention in the way 
of rivalry; hence, sometimes, a state where 
it would be difficult to decide as to which 
party had the advantage ; also, a challenge ; a 
wager. 
At this particular of defaming, both the sexes seem to 
be at a vie, and I think he were a very critical judge that 
should determine between them. 
Government of the Tongue. 
vie 2 t, ". [ME., < OF. (and F.) vie = Sp. Pg. 
vida = It. vita, < L. vita, life, < vivere, live: see 
vital, vivid."] Life. 
We biseche thee for alle that hereth this me 
Off oure ladi seynt Marie, 
That Ihesu schelde hem fram grame. 
King Horn (E. E. T. S.), p. 99. 
vielle (viel), n. [F. : akintoMoZ: see 0soZ.] 1. 
One of the large early forms of the medieval 
viol. 
Afterwards the latter name [viole] was exclusively used, 
and ultimately passed into the modern form Violin, while 
the name Viele was given to a totally different instru- 
ment, the Organistrnm or Symphonia, whence the French 
ChifoniiS. This is the modern Viol, in which the music is 
produced by the rotation of a wheel. 
W. K. Sullivan, Introd. to O'Curry's Anc. Irish, p. dxxiv. 
2. Same as liurdy-gurdy, !. 
Vienna basin. In r/eol., the name given to an 
orographically not very well defined area, hav- 
ing Vienna near its southwestern extremity 
and extending to the Bohemian mountains on 
the northwest and the Carpathians on the north- 
east, and underlain by a series of Tertiary rocks 
remarkable for their extent, size, and compli- 
cated development. This Tertiary belongs chiefly to 
the Neogene of the Austrian geologists (see Neogene), 
and is divided into several subgroups, beginning with the 
Aquitanian, followed (in ascending order) by the Sarmatian 
and Mediterranean subdivisions these all being of Mio- 
cene age and then by the Congerian or Pliocene. The 
Vienna basin opened out to the east into a broad Miocene 
inland sea, slightly brackish, and is believed to have been 
connected, in former times, with the Arabo-Caspian basin, 
and perhaps even with the Arctic Ocean. It also communi- 
cated with the basin of the upper Danube, and with an 
area lying north of the Carpathians in both cases, how- 
ever, by narrow channels. Some writers limit the name 
Vienna basin to a smaller area lying pretty closely adja- 
cent to the northern flanks of the eastern Alps, and partly 
included within their spurs. 
Vienna caustic. A mixture of caustic potash 
and quicklime. See camtic. 
Vienna draught. Compound infusion of senna ; 
black-draught. 
Vienna lake. A somewhat indefinite product, 
but usually a dark-red lake with little strength 
obtained from the liquors remaining from the 
making of carmine. Also called Florence lake 
and Paris lake. 
Vienna opening, in cltess-playing. See open- 
ing, 9. 
Vienna paste. Same as Vienna caustic. 
Vienna powder, work. See powder, 
Viennese (vi-e-ues' or -nez'), a. and n. [= F. 
Viennois ; < Vienna (F. Vienne = G. Wien) + 
-ese.] I. n. Of or pertaining to Vienna, the 
capital of the Austrian empire, situated on tho 
Danube, or pertaining to its inhabitants. 
II. ii. xi>i(/.a,nApl. An inhabitant or inhabi- 
tants of Vienna. 
vi et armis (vi et ar'mis). [L.: vi, abl. sing, 
of ris, force, violence; et, and; armis, abl. of 
anna, a weapon, defensive armor: see ri.s-1 and 
rw 2 .] In fate, with force and arms: words 
made use of in indictments and actions of tres- 
pass to show that the trespass or crime was 
forcible or committed with a display of force ; 
hence, with force or violence generally, 
view (vii), n. [Early mod. E. also vewe ; < OF. 
vene, F. vue, a view, sight, < veu, F. vu (= It. 
rrihita, < ML. as if *vidittus), pp. of voir, < L. vi- 
dcre, see : see vision.'] 1. The act of viewing, 
seeing, or beholding; examination by the eye; 
survey ; inspection ; look ; sight. 
She made good view of me. Shak., T. N., ii. 2. 20. 
She looked out at her father's window, 
To take a view of the countrie. 
Lord Jamie Douglas (Child's Ballads, IV. 142). 
2. The act of perceiving by the mind ; mental 
survey; intellectual inspection or examination; 
observation ; consideration. 
My last View shall be of the first Language of the 
Earth, the antient Language of Paradise, the Language 
wherein God Almighty himself pleased to pronounce and 
publish the Tables of the Law. Houxtt, Letters, II. 60. 
For though, in demonstration, the mind does at last 
perceive the agreement or disagreement of the ideas it 
considers, . . . there must be more than one transient 
view to find it. Locke, Human Understanding, IV. ii. 4. 
3. Power of seeing or perception, either 
physical or mental ; range of vision ; reach of 
sight ; extent of prospect. 
These growing feathers plnck'd from Csesar's wing 
Will make him fly an ordinary pitch, 
Who else would soar above the view of men, 
And keep us all in servile tearfulness. 
Shale., J. C., i. 1. 79. 
Stand in her view, make your addresses to her. 
Fletcher (and another ?), Prophetess, Hi. 1. 
The walls of Pluto's palace are in view. 
Dryden, Km i,i, vi. 856. 
Keeping the idea which is brought into it [the mind] 
for some time actually in view ... is called contempla- 
tion. Locke, Human Understanding, II. x. 1. 
Who keeps one end in view makes all things serve. 
Browning, In a Balcony. 
4. That which is viewed, seen, or beheld; 
something which is looked upon ; sight or spec- 
tacle presented to the eye or to the mind ; scene ; 
prospect. 
TIB distance lends enchantment to the view. 
Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, i. T. 
The country was wild and broken, with occasional su- 
perb views over frozen arms of the (Julf, and the deep rich 
valleys stretching inland. 
B. Taylor, Northern Travel, p. 42. 
5. A scene as represented by painting, draw- 
ing, or photography ; a picture or sketch, espe- 
cially a landscape. 6. Manner or mode of look- 
ing at things; manner of regarding subjects 
on which various opinions may be held; judg- 
ment; opinion; conception; notion; way of 
thinking; theory. 
There is a great difference of view as to the way In which 
perfection shall he sought. 
Marg. Fuller, Woman in the 19th Cent., p. 19. 
One Hester Prynne, who appeared to have been rather 
a noteworthy personage in the view of our ancestors. 
Hawthorne, Scarlet Letter, Int., p. 36. 
They have all my views, and I believe they will carry 
them out unless overruled by a higher Power. 
Kane, Sec. Grinn. Exp., I. 258. 
Persons who take what is called a high view of life and 
of human nature are never weary of telling us that money- 
getting is not man's noblest occupation. 
Fortnightly Bev., N. 8., XLII. 193. 
7. Something looked toward or forming the 
subject of consideration; intention; design; 
purpose; aim. 
The allegory has another view. 
Bacon, Physical Fables, Ii., Expl. 
I write without any view to profit or praise. 
Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iv. 12. 
8t. Appearance; show; aspect. 
So, at his bloody view, her eyes are fled 
Into the deep dark cabins of her head. 
Shak., Venus and Adonis, 1. 1037. 
New graces find, 
Which, by the splendour of her view 
Dazzled before, we ever knew. 
Waller, The Night-Piece. 
9. In law, an inspection by the jury of property 
or a place the appearance or condition of which 
is involved in the case, or useful to enable 
the jury to understand the testimony, as of a 
place where a crime has been committed. 
10. Specifically, inspection of a dead body; 
viewiness 
an autopsy. lit. Tie footing of a beast. 
Halliu-ell Bird's-eye view. See bird's-eye. Dissolv- 
ing Views, a name given to pictures thrown on a screen 
by a lantern in such manner that they appear to dissolve 
every one into that following, without any interval of 
blank between them. To cause the pictures to "dissolve," 
two lanterns are required, each of which projects its pic- 
ture upon the same field on the screen, both being in the 
same focus. One picture being projected, to cause it to dis- 
appear gradually and the next to take its place, a sliding cap 
or hood is mechanically withdrawn from the front of the 
second lantern and placed before the first lantern. An- 
other method is to turn on the gas of one lantern while 
shutting off the gas of the other. The result is the same 
by either method, the first picture disappearing as the 
second appears, the two melting one into the other till one 
is lost and the other becomes clear. By a recent improved 
method only one lantern is used, and by appropriate mech- 
anism a picture is substituted for that preceding it so 
quickly that there is no appreciation of any interval be- 
tween them. Field Of View. See field. In view Of, in 
consideration of; having regard to. On View, open or 
submitted to public inspection ; exhibited to the public : 
as, pictures placed on view. Point Of view. Seepointi. 
Side View. See si'del and side-view. To the View, so 
as to be seen by everybody ; in public. 
Mechanic slaves 
With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall 
Uplift us to the view. Slink., A. and C., v. 2. 211. 
View Of frank-pledge, in E'ng. law : (a) A court of rec- 
ord, now fallen into almost total desuetude, held once in 
the year within a particular hundred, township, or manor, 
by the steward of the leet. Whartnn. (b) In Anglo-Saxon 
law, the office of a sheriff in seeing all the frank-pledges 
of a hundred, and that all youths above fourteen belonged 
to some tithing : a function of the court-leet. Stimson. 
= Syn. 4 and 6. View, Prospect, Scene, Landscape. View 
is the most general of these words ; prospect most suggests 
the idea that the beholder is at a place somewhat elevated, 
so as to be able to see far ; scene most suggests the idea 
of resemblance to a picture ; landscape most suggests the 
idea of diversity in unity. 
view (vu), v. [Early mod. E. also vewe ; < vien; 
.] I. trans. 1. To see; look on; behold. 
When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see, 
For all the day I view things uninspected. 
Shak., Sonnets, xliii. 
The people view'd them wi' surprise, 
As they danc'd on the green. 
The Earl of Mar's Daughter (Child's Ballads, I. 177). 
2. To examine with the eye ; look on with at- 
tention, or for the purpose of examining ; sur- 
vey; explore; peruse. 
Go up and view the country. Josh. vii. L'. 
Lords, view these letters full of bad mischance. 
France is revolted from the English quite. 
Shak., 1 Hen. VI., i. 1. 89. 
I had not the opportunity to view it. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 137. 
For he viewed the fashions of that land ; 
Their way of worship viewed he. 
Young Beichan and Susie Pye (Child's Ballads, IV. 2). 
3. To survey intellectually; examine with the 
mental eye ; consider ; regard. 
As Princes be more high and also mightier than the 
rest, euen so are they more behelde & also more viewed 
than others. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 10. 
And though, oft looking backward, well she vewede 
Her selfe freed from that foster insolent 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 50. 
When we view an object as a concrete whole we appre- 
hend it. J. Sully, Outlines of Psychol., p. 331. 
= Syn. 1. To witness.- 2. To scan. 3. To contemplate. 
II. intrans. To look; take a view. [Rare.] 
Mr. Harley is sagacious to view into the remotest con- 
sequences of things. The Examiner, No. 6. 
viewer (vu'er), n. [< view + -cr 1 .] One who 
views, surveys, or examines. 
For if I will bee a Judge of your goodes. for the same 
you will be a viewer of my life. 
Guevara, Letters (tr. by Hellowes, 1577), p. 225. 
Specifically (a) An official appointed to inspect or super- 
intend something ; an overseer ; in coal-mining, the gen- 
eral manager, both above and below ground, of a coal- 
mine. This word, not at all in use in the United States, 
is almost obsolete in England, having become replaced by 
the terms mining-engineer and agent. The terms used in 
the United States are manager and superintendent. 
The Colliery Viewer [Newcastle-upon-Tyne] superin- 
tends the collieries. He has a salary of 60(. a year. 
Hun-kip. Corp. Report, 1K15, p. 1648. 
(b) One of a body of jurors who are appointed by a court 
to view or inspect the property in controversy or the place 
where a crime has been committed. In Scotland two 
persons called showers point out the subjects to be viewed. 
view-halloo (vu'ha-16'), . In fox-hunting, the 
shout uttered by the huntsman on seeing the 
fox break cover. Also view-liallo, new-hollo, 
view-hollow, etc. 
But pray, what is become of the lady all this while? why, 
lady Freelove, you told me she was not here, and, i' faith, 
I was just drawing off another way, if I had not heard the 
vieic-hoUow. Colman, Jealous Wife, ii. 
viewiness (vu'i-nes), . The character or state 
of being viewy or speculative. [Colloq.] 
We have opinions which were then considered to affix 
to those who uttered them the stigma of vieuiness endorsed 
to a great extent by a Conservative Lord Chancellor. 
Nineteenth Century, XXII. 14. 
