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The act or state of seeing double.

The act of divining; a foreseeing or foretelling of future events; the pretended art discovering secret or future by preternatural means. There shall not be found among you any one that . . . useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter. Deut. xviii. 10.

Serving to inspire fear, esp. a dread of seeing ghosts; wild; weird; as, eerie stories. She whose elfin prancer springs By night to eery warblings. Tennyson.

opulent; to increase the possessions of; as, to enrich the understanding with knowledge. Seeing, Lord, your great mercy Us hath enriched so openly. Chaucer's Dream.

tenuates or justifies a fault. "It hath the excuse of youth." Shak. If eyes were made for seeing. Then beauty is its own excuse for being. Emerson.

The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.

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

Seeing to great distance; hence, of good judgment regarding the remote effects of actions; sagacious.

like cutlers' poetry." Shak. -- For as much as, or Forasmuch as, in consideration that; seeing that; since. -- For by. See Forby, adv. -- For ever, eternally; at all times. See Forever. -- For me, or For all me, as far as regards me. -- For my life, or For the life of me, if my life depended on it. [Colloq.] T. H…

In consideration that; seeing that; since; because that; -- followed by as. See under For, prep.

To provide. [Obs.] Great shoals of people, which go on to populate, without foreseeing means of life. Bacon.

The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge. Milton.

Event to come; a future event. All futurities are naked before the All-seeing Eye. South.

Act of gazing about; sightseeing. [Prov. Eng.]

Showy; unreal; pretentious. Seeing his gewgaw castle shine. Tennyson.

y at last ensnared, he dreadful darts, With rapid glide, along the leaning line. Thomson. Seeing Orlando, it unlink'd itself, And with indented glides did slip away. Shak.

To apply one's self; to set one's self; to undertake. Seeing himself confronted by so many, like a resolute orator, he went not to denial, but to justify his cruel falsehood. Sir P. Sidney.

Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.

Seeing everything through a medium which discolors or distorts. "Green-eyed jealousy." Shak.

Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.