Hypertext Webster Gateway: "viewing"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
View \View\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Viewed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Viewing}.]
1. To see; to behold; especially, to look at with attention,
or for the purpose of examining; to examine with the eye;
to inspect; to explore.
O, let me view his visage, being dead. --Shak.
Nearer to view his prey, and, unespied, To mark what
of their state he more might learn. --Milton.
2. To survey or examine mentally; to consider; as, to view
the subject in all its aspects.
The happiest youth, viewing his progress through.
--Shak.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
viewing
n 1: the display of motion picture [syn: {screening}, {showing}]
2: a vigil held over a corpse the night before burial; "there's
no weeping at an Irish wake" [syn: {wake}]
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