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

Excessive acuteness of sight.

To sigh; to flutter; to languish. [Poetic] The whispering breeze Pants on the leaves, and dies upon the trees. Pope.

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.

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.