Aspect

n. [Fr. aspect, Lat. aspectus, from aspicere, aspectum, to look at, from ad and spicere, specere, to look.] 1. Act of seeing; vision; gaze; glance. [Obs. or rare.] His aspect was bent on the ground. W. Scott. 2. Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air. “To glad your aspects once again with the sight of love.” B. Jonson. “Serious in aspect.” Dryden. With aspect open shall erect his head. Pope. 3. Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view. The true aspect of a world lying in its rubbish. Burnet.

4. Position or situation with regard to seeing, or that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; or, in a more general sense, position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces or looks to the south.
5. Opportunity or chance of looking; prospect. [Obs. and rare.]

This town affords a good aspect toward the hill from whence we descended. Evelyn. 6. (Astrol.) The situation of one planet or star with respect to another, or the angle formed by the rays of light proceeding from two planets or stars and meeting at the eye. The aspects are five: sextile, *, when the planets are 60° distant; quartile, or quadrate, □, when their distance is 90°, or the quarter of a circle; trine, △, when the distance is 120°; opposition, ☍, when the distance is 180°, or half a circle; and conjunction, ☌, when they are in the same degree. Brande.