Word Meanings - BY-VIEW - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A private or selfish view; self-interested aim or purpose. No by-views of his own shall mislead him. Atterbury.
Related words: (words related to BY-VIEW)
- SHALLOP
A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails. - PURPOSELESS
Having no purpose or result; objectless. Bp. Hall. -- Pur"pose*less*ness, n. - SELFISHLY
In a selfish manner; with regard to private interest only or chiefly. - SELFISHNESS
The quality or state of being selfish; exclusive regard to one's own interest or happiness; that supreme self-love or self- preference which leads a person to direct his purposes to the advancement of his own interest, power, or happiness, without - PRIVATEERING
Cruising in a privateer. - PURPOSE
1. That which a person sets before himself as an object to be reached or accomplished; the end or aim to which the view is directed in any plan, measure, or exertion; view; aim; design; intention; plan. He will his firste purpos modify. Chaucer. - INTERESTED
1. Having the attention engaged; having emotion or passion excited; as, an interested listener. 2. Having an interest; concerned in a cause or in consequences; liable to be affected or prejudiced; as, an interested witness. - SHALLOON
A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift. - SHALLOW-BRAINED
Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South. - PRIVATEERSMAN
An officer or seaman of a privateer. - SHALLOW-WAISTED
Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel. - SHALLOW
schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone. - INTERESTINGNESS
The condition or quality of being interesting. A. Smith. - MISLEAD
To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. Milton. Syn. -- To delude; deceive. - SHALLOT
A small kind of onion growing in clusters, and ready for gathering in spring; a scallion, or eschalot. - SHALL
sholde, scholde, AS. scal, sceal, I am obliged, imp. scolde, sceolde, inf. sculan; akin to OS. skulan, pres. skal, imp. skolda, D. zullen, pres. zal, imp. zoude, zou, OHG. solan, scolan, pres. scal, sol. imp. scolta, solta, G. sollen, pres. soll, - PRIVATE
to an individual, private, properly p. p. of privare to bereave, deprive, originally, to separate, fr. privus single, private, perhaps originally, put forward and akin to prae 1. Belonging to, or concerning, an individual person, company, or - PURPOSER
1. One who brings forward or proposes anything; a proposer. 2. One who forms a purpose; one who intends. - PRIVATELY
1. In a private manner; not openly; without the presence of others. 2. In a manner affecting an individual; personally not officially; as, he is not privately benefited. - SHALLOW-PATED
Shallow-brained. - DISINTERESTING
Uninteresting. "Disinteresting passages." Bp. Warburton. - UNINTERESTED
1. Not interested; not having any interest or property in; having nothing at stake; as, to be uninterested in any business. 2. Not having the mind or the passions engaged; as, uninterested in a discourse or narration. - CROSS-PURPOSE
A conversational game, in which questions and answers are made so as to involve ludicrous combinations of ideas. Pepys. To be at cross-purposes, to misunderstand or to act counter to one another without intending it; -- said of persons. (more info) - DISPURPOSE
To dissuade; to frustrate; as, to dispurpose plots. A. Brewer. - SELF-INTERESTED
Particularly concerned for one's own interest or happiness. - DISINTEREST
Disinterested. The measures they shall walk by shall be disinterest and even. Jer. Taylor. - BY-INTEREST
Self-interest; private advantage. Atterbury.