Aspect
- n. To behold; to look at.
- n. The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.
- n. Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air.
- n. Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
- n. Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.
- n. Prospect; outlook.
- n. The situation of planets or stars with respect to one another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from them and meeting at the eye; the joint look of planets or stars upon each other or upon the earth.
- n. The influence of the stars for good or evil; as, an ill aspect.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.