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Acuteness; insight; sharp discoverment; sagacity; as, a person of singular penetration. Walpole.

Having the power of seeing clearly; quick-sighted; sharp of sight.

The state of being perspicacious; acuteness of sight or of intelligence; acute discernment. Sir T. Browne.

One of the sights of an astrolabe. [Obs.]

(a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. Shak.

With all small arms, the second point in which the natural line of sight, when horizontal, cuts the trajectory.

Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.

to a crisis, suddenly or too soon; as, precipitate a journey, or a conflict. Back to his sight precipitates her steps. Glover. If they be daring, it may precipitate their designs, and prove dangerous. Bacon.

Foresight. [Obs.] Naught might hinder his quick prejudize. Spenser.

One who has presbyopia; a farsighted person.

Affected by presbyopia; also, remedying presbyopia; farsighted.

Knowledge of events before they take place; foresight. God's certain prescience of the volitions of moral agents. J. Edwards.

With presciense or foresight.

The state of being present, or of being within sight or call, or at hand; -- opposed to absence.

Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. [Obs.] Milton.

or prevalence; to obtain; as, the practice prevails this day. This custom makes the short-sighted bigots, and the warier skeptics, as far as it prevails. Locke.

Foresight; foreknowledge; prescience. H. Spencer.

e plane, as in an ellipsoid. -- Principal point (Persp.), the projection of the point of sight upon the plane of projection. -- Principal ray (Persp.), the line drawn through the point of sight perpendicular to the perspective plane. -- Principal section (Crystallog.), a plane passing through the optical axis of a c…

rd upon the plane, each in the direction of a line drawn through it from a given point of sight, or central point; as, the projection of a sphere. The several kinds of projection differ according to the assumed point of sight and plane of projection in each.

promise to pay to some person named, and at a time specified therein, or on demand, or at sight, a certain sum of money, absolutely and at all events; -- frequently called a note of hand. Kent. Byles. Story.