Word Meanings - OCULARLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

By the eye, or by actual sight.

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• ACTUALIZE
  To make actual; to realize in action. Coleridge.
• 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.
• ACTUAL
  1. Involving or comprising action; active. Her walking and other actual performances. Shak. Let your holy and pious intention be actual; that is . . . by a special prayer or action, . . . given to God. Jer. Taylor. 2. Existing in act or reality;
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• ACTUALITY
  The state of being actual; reality; as, the actuality of God's nature. South.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• SIGHTLESS
  1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak.
• ACTUALIZATION
  A making actual or really existent. Emerson.
• SIGHT-SEER
  One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
• SIGHTFUL
  Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love.
• SIGHTPROOF
  Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell.
• SIGHT-SHOT
  Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. Cowley.
• SIGHTFULNESS
  The state of being sightful; perspicuity. Sir P. Sidney.
• ACTUALLY
  1. Actively. "Neither actually . . . nor passively." Fuller. 2. In act or in fact; really; in truth; positively.
• ACTUALIST
  One who deals with or considers actually existing facts and conditions, rather than fancies or theories; -- opposed to idealist. J. Grote.
• SIGHT
  1. To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck. Kane. 2. To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star. 3. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation
• ACTUALNESS
  Quality of being actual; actuality.
• SIGHTSMAN
  One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. Busby.
• SIGHTLINESS
  The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
• 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.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• HIGH-SIGHTED
  Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
• DULL-SIGHTED
  Having poor eyesight.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• TACTUAL
  Of or pertaining to the sense, or the organs, of touch; derived from touch. In the lowest organisms we have a kind of tactual sense diffused over the entire body. Tyndall.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• NEARSIGHTED; NEARSIGHTEDNESS
  Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. -- Near"sight`ed*ness, n.
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.
• DESIGHT
  An unsightly object.
• EAGLE-SIGHTED
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted. Shak.
• UNSIGHTED
  Not aimed by means of a sight; also, not furnished with a sight, or with a properly adjusted sight; as, to shoot and unsighted rife or cannon. (more info) 1. Not sighted, or seen. Suckling.
• SECOND-SIGHTED
  Having the power of second-sight. Addison.