prospect

The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.

As when a Scout[…]Obtains the brow of ſome high-climbing Hill, / Which to his eye diſcovers unaware / The goodly proſpect of ſome forein land / Firſt-ſeen, or ſome renownd Metropolis / With gliſtering Spires and Pinnacles adornd, / Which now the Riſing Sun guilds with his beams.

A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.

I went to Putney, and other places on the Thames, to take prospects in crayon, to carry into France, where I thought to have them engraved.

She felt all the honest pride and complacency which her alliance with the present and future proprietor could fairly warrant, as she viewed the respectable size and style of the building, its suitable, becoming, characteristic situation, low and sheltered—its ample gardens stretching down to meadows washed by a stream, of which the Abbey, with all the old neglect of prospect, had scarcely a sight ...

A position affording a fine view; a lookout.

Him God beholding from his proſpect high, / Wherein paſt, preſent, future he beholds, / Thus to his onely Son forſeeing ſpake.

Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.

Their prospect was toward the south.

The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.

a very ill prospect of a future state

Is he a prudent man as to his temporal estate, that lays designs only for a day, without any prospect to, or provision for, the remaining part of life?

To search, as for gold.

Among the ancient sites in the Taklamakan Desert which are frequented by Khotan "treasure seekers," and which the prospecting parties sent out by me had visited, none seemed to offer better opportunities for systematic excavations than the one known to them as Dandan-Uilik.

To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

To have or afford a view; to face or look out.

This poynte ſemethe as though it woolde inuade the monte Atlas in Aphrica. Foꝛ it pꝛoſpectethe [translating spectat] towarde that parte of Aphꝛike, whiche the poꝛtugales caule Caput Bonæ Sperantiæ.

All men, whoſe experience by trauaile is a wytnes of the ſingularities of Italye, and ſpaine, are of opinion I am ſewer, that naples, is one of yͤ moſt riche pleaſante and Populus cities in evrope, bothe foꝛ the beautie and fartilitie of the countreye rounde aboute, the magnifical plat and ſcituacion of the towne, pꝛoſpectinge with open caſementes, vppon the heyghte of the highe ſea Tyrenũ, […]

To look or face towards; to view.

Beynge therfoꝛe ioyfull and gladde of the frendeſhyppe of owre men, he tooke the capitaine by the hand and bꝛought him with certeine of his familiars to the higheſt towre of his palaice, from whenſe they myght proſpecte [translating dispectare] the mayne ſea.

[…] [Andreas] Veſalius no leſſe taketh part agaynſt him, openyng the window of light, on the clearer ſide, pꝛoſpecting the Sunne, as manifeſtly appeareth by that is gone befoꝛe.