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nd. Mons.Strozzi has many curiosities, and is very obliging to a stranger who desires the sight of them. Addison.

Of or pertaining to darkness or night; inconspicuous to the sight; indistinctly seen; hidden; retired; remote from observation; unnoticed. The obscure bird Clamored the livelong night. Shak. The obscure corners of the earth. Sir J. Davies.

To eclipse; to hide from sight.

The hiding of a heavenly body from sight by the intervention of some other of the heavenly bodies; -- applied especially to eclipses of stars and planets by the moon, and to the eclipses of satellites of planets by their primaries.

Depending on, or perceived by, the eye; received by actual sight; personally seeing or having seen; as, ocular proof. Shak. Thomas was an ocular witness of Christ's death. South.

By the eye, or by actual sight.

ovoking hatred, repugnance, or disgust; offensive; disagreeable; repulsive; as, an odious sight; an odious smell. Milton. The odious side of that polity. Macaulay.

ividuals, and thus determiming the proper focal length of a lens for correcting imperfect sight. Brande & C.

The organ of sight; an eye. The difference is as great between The optics seeing, as the object seen. Pope.

Of or pertaining to vision or sight. The moon, whose orb Through optic glass the Tuscan artist views. Milton.

By optics or sight; with reference to optics. Optically active, Optically inactive (Chem. Physics), terms used of certain metameric substances which, while identical with each other in other respects, differ in this, viz., that they do or do not produce right-handed or left-handed circular polarization of light. -- Op…

ane of projection passing through the center of the sphere perpendicularly to the line of sight.

The view obtained by one looking out; scope of vision; prospect; sight; appearance. Applause Which owes to man's short outlook all its charms. Young.

To project or impend over threateningly. His louering brows o'erwhelming his fair sight. Shak.

Excessive acuteness of sight.

losure, or the like, from another; as, a brick partition; lath and plaster partitions. No sight could pass Betwixt the nice partitions of the grass. Dryden.

A block on the muzzle of a gun, to do away with the effect of dispart, in sighting.

. eep through the blanket of the dark. Shak. From her cabined loophole peep. Milton. 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.

To come in sight; to appear. [Poetic] So honor peereth in the meanest habit. Shak. See how his gorget peers above his gown! B. Jonson.

n instrument similar to a mariner's compass, but without magnetic needles, and having two sight vanes by which bearings are taken, esp. such as cannot be taken by the compass.