viewy (vai)

[ Sheffield, on the other hand, without po e ing any real view of things more than Charles, was at this time fonder of hunting for views, and more in danger of taking up false ones that is, he was viewy , in a bad sense of the word. J. H. Newman, Lo and Gain, i. 3. A man's identification with the movement was taken as proof that he was viewy and unfit for leadership. The American, VI. 278. 2. Showy. [Colloq.] They [chests of drawers] would hold together for a time, and that was all; but the slaughterers cared only to have them viewy and cheap. Mayhew , London Labour and London Poor, III. 230. vifda, vivda (vif'da, viv'dä), n. [Perhaps