Word Meanings - EYESIGHT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation. Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight. Bp. Wilkins.

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• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• SENSE
  A faculty, possessed by animals, of perceiving external objects by means of impressions made upon certain organs (sensory or sense organs) of the body, or of perceiving changes in the condition of the body; as, the senses of sight, smell, hearing,
• SEERSUCKER
  A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• SEEK
  Sick. Chaucer.
• SEEMING
  1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• SEEDLESS
  Without seed or seeds.
• SEEDCOD
  A seedlip.
• SEETHER
  A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
• SEED-LAC
  A species of lac. See the Note under Lac.
• SEEL
  1. Good fortune; favorable opportunity; prosperity. "So have I seel". Chaucer. 2. Time; season; as, hay seel.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• SEEL; SEELING
  The rolling or agitation of a ship in a sterm. Sandys.
• OBSERVATION CAR
  A railway passenger car made so as to facilitate seeing the scenery en route; a car open, or with glass sides, or with a kind of open balcony at the rear.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• SEEDLING
  A plant reared from the seed, as distinguished from one propagated by layers, buds, or the like.
• SEE
  1. A seat; a site; a place where sovereign power is exercised. Chaucer. Jove laughed on Venus from his sovereign see. Spenser. 2. Specifically: The seat of episcopal power; a diocese; the jurisdiction of a bishop; as, the see of New York. The
• SEEK-SORROW
  One who contrives to give himself vexation. Sir P. Sidney.
• INSENSE
  To make to understand; to instruct. Halliwell.
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• MESEEMS
  It seems to me.
• WORMSEED
  Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
• UNSEEMLY
  Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
• LOPSEED
  A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
• GAPESEED
  Any strange sight. Wright.
• BESEECH
  1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
• UPSEEK
  To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
• BESEEMING
  1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
• BERSEEM
  An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• HAGSEED
  The offspring of a hag. Shak.
• UNFORESEE
  To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.
• BESEEN
  1. Seen; appearing. 2. Decked or adorned; clad. Chaucer. 3. Accomplished; versed. Spenser.
• FORESEE
  1. To see beforehand; to have prescience of; to foreknow. A prudent man foreseeth the evil. Prov. xxii. 3. 2. To provide. Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.