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serpents, and that its breath, and even its look, was fatal. See Cockatrice. Make me not sighted like the basilisk. Shak.

Quick-sighted; catching a glance as one goes.

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant.

To come together; to meet; to unite. [R.] In shortsighted men . . . the rays converge and convene in the eyes before they come at the bottom. Sir I. Newton.

To become dim-sighted; to become dazed or dazzled. [Obs.] Chauscer.

Acute; shrewd; sagacious; sharp-sighted. Macaulay.

Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.

Able to see to a great distance; farsighted.

Foresighted. [Obs.]

Having a keen eye; sharpsighted; discerning.

or fault of the refractive media, the rays of light come to a focus behind the retina; farsightedness; -- called also hyperopia. Cf. Emmetropia.

, the line which passes through the front and rear sight, at any elevation, when they are sighted at an object. -- Line tub (Naut.), a tub in which the line carried by a whaleboat is coiled. -- Mason and Dixon's line, the boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland, as run before the Revolution (1764-1767) by two…

Long-sightedness Good.

Dim-sighted; purblind.

Shortsighted; purblind.

Shortsighted; mope-eyed.

Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave…

Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted. Myopic astigmatism, a condition in which the eye is affected with myopia in one meridian only.

An extraordinary nova which appeared in Perseus in 1901. It was first sighted on February 22, and for one night (February 23) was the brightest star in the sky. By July it had almost disappeared, after which faint surrounding nebulous masses were discovered, apparently moving radially outward from the star at incredibl…

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