▪ I. vew north. dial.
(vjuː)
Also 6 veiwe, 7–9 view, 7 vewe, vue.
[Prob. an alteration of yew.]
A yew-tree, or the wood of this.
| 16.. in Weber Floddon Field (1808) 383 A Scottishe Mynstrell..broughte a bowe of vewe to drawe. 1699 M. Lister Journ. Paris 215 Here are several Acres of young Pines, Cypresses, Vues, &c. 1796 Pegge Derbicisms Ser. i. (E.D.S.) 79 Vew or View,..the yew tree. 1828– in northern dial. glossaries (Yks., Lancs., Chesh., Derby). |
| attrib. a 1600 Robin Hood & Guy of Gisborne xv, Iohn bent vp a good veiwe bow, And fetteled him to shoote. c 1675 O. Heywood Diary, etc. (1883) III. 213, 4 view trees set about my house Sept. 1. 1674. 1790 Grose Prov. Gloss., View-tree, yew-tree. |
▪ II. vew
southern dial. var. few a.