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English Dictionary: sight	by the DICT Development Group
4 results for sight
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
sight n an instance of visual perception; "the sight of his wife brought him back to reality"; "the train was an unexpected sight" anything that is seen; "he was a familiar sight on the television"; "they went to Paris to see the sights" the ability to see; the visual faculty Synonym(s): sight, vision, visual sense, visual modality a range of mental vision; "in his sight she could do no wrong" the range of vision; "out of sight of land" Synonym(s): sight, ken the act of looking or seeing or observing; "he tried to get a better view of it"; "his survey of the battlefield was limited" Synonym(s): view, survey, sight (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" Synonym(s): batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad v catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; "he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge" Synonym(s): spy, sight take aim by looking through the sights of a gun (or other device)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sight \Sight\, n. [OE. sight, si[?]t, siht, AS. siht, gesiht, gesih[?], gesieh[?], gesyh[?]; akin to D. gezicht, G. sicht, gesicht, Dan. sigte, Sw. sigt, from the root of E. see. See {See}, v. t.] 1. The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land. A cloud received him out of their sight. --Acts. i. 9. 2. The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes. Thy sight is young, And thou shalt read when mine begin to dazzle. --Shak. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! --Milton. 3. The state of admitting unobstructed vision; visibility; open view; region which the eye at one time surveys; space through which the power of vision extends; as, an object within sight. 4. A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing. Moses said, I will now turn aside and see this great sight, why the bush is not burnt. --Ex. iii. 3. They never saw a sight so fair. --Spenser. 5. The instrument of seeing; the eye. Why cloud they not their sights? --Shak. 6. Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person. 7. Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless. --Wake. That which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God. --Luke xvi. 15. 8. A small aperture through which objects are to be seen, and by which their direction is settled or ascertained; as, the sight of a quadrant. Thier eyes of fire sparking through sights of steel. --Shak. 9. A small piece of metal, fixed or movable, on the breech, muzzle, center, or trunnion of a gun, or on the breech and the muzzle of a rifle, pistol, etc., by means of which the eye is guided in aiming. --Farrow. 10. In a drawing, picture, etc., that part of the surface, as of paper or canvas, which is within the frame or the border or margin. In a frame or the like, the open space, the opening. 11. A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money. [Now colloquial] Note: Sight in this last sense was formerly employed in the best usage. [bd]A sight of lawyers.[b8] --Latimer. A wonder sight of flowers. --Gower. {At sight}, as soon as seen, or presented to sight; as, a draft payable at sight: to read Greek at sight; to shoot a person at sight. {Front sight} (Firearms), the sight nearest the muzzle. {Open sight}. (Firearms) (a) A front sight through which the objects aimed at may be seen, in distinction from one that hides the object. (b) A rear sight having an open notch instead of an aperture. {Peep sight}, {Rear sight}. See under {Peep}, and {Rear}. {Sight draft}, an order, or bill of exchange, directing the payment of money at sight. {To take sight}, to take aim; to look for the purpose of directing a piece of artillery, or the like. Syn: Vision; view; show; spectacle; representation; exhibition.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sight \Sight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sighted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Sighting}.] 1. To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck. --Kane. 2. To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star. 3. To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sight \Sight\, v. i. (Mil.) To take aim by a sight.