Definition of sight

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Sight (v. t.) Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person..

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Oversight :: Oversight (n.) An overlooking; an omission; an error.
Dispart :: Dispart (v. t.) To furnish with a dispart sight.
Spectacle :: Spectacle (n.) Fig.: An aid to the intellectual sight.
Foresight :: Foresight (n.) The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Long-sightedness :: Long-sightedness (n.) The state or condition of being long-sighted; hence, sagacity; shrewdness..
Shade :: Shade (n.) The soul after its separation from the body; -- so called because the ancients it to be perceptible to the sight, though not to the touch; a spirit; a ghost; as, the shades of departed heroes..
Sight :: Sight (v. t.) The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes..
Show :: Show (v. t.) To exhibit or present to view; to place in sight; to display; -- the thing exhibited being the object, and often with an indirect object denoting the person or thing seeing or beholding; as, to show a house; show your colors; shopkeepers show customers goods (show goods to customers)..
Blink :: Blink (v. t.) To shut out of sight; to avoid, or purposely evade; to shirk; as, to blink the question..
Envy :: Envy (v. t.) To feel envy at or towards; to be envious of; to have a feeling of uneasiness or mortification in regard to (any one), arising from the sight of another's excellence or good fortune and a longing to possess it..
Sightly :: Sightly (a.) Pleasing to the sight; comely.
Backsight :: Backsight (n.) The reading of the leveling staff in its unchanged position when the leveling instrument has been taken to a new position; a sight directed backwards to a station previously occupied. Cf. Foresight, n., 3..
Long-sighted :: Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects distinctly at a distance, but not close at hand; hypermetropic..
Appear :: Appear (v. i.) To come or be in sight; to be in view; to become visible.
Desightment :: Desightment (n.) The act of making unsightly; disfigurement.
Prejudice :: Prejudice (n.) Foresight.
Sighted :: Sighted (imp. & p. p.) of Sigh.
Sextant :: Sextant (n.) An instrument for measuring angular distances between objects, -- used esp. at sea, for ascertaining the latitude and longitude. It is constructed on the same optical principle as Hadley's quadrant, but usually of metal, with a nicer graduation, telescopic sight, and its arc the sixth, and sometimes the third, part of a circle. See Quadrant..
Sightsmen :: Sightsmen (pl. ) of Sightsma.
Long-sighted :: Long-sighted (a.) Able to see objects at a great distance; hence, having great foresight; sagacious; farseeing..
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