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• Sight

  ·vi To take aim by a sight. II. Sight ·vt The instrument of seeing; the eye. III. Sight ·vt A spec...

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• sight

  1) A great many.--Brockett, Glossary. A sight of people, is a great multitude. A sight of things, a ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Close

  ·adv Secretly; darkly. II. Close ·adv In a close manner. III. Close ·noun A grapple in wrestling. ...

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• close

  As close as God's curse to a whore's a-se: close as shirt and shitten a-se. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• Breech sight

  ·- A device attached to the breech of a firearm, to guide the eye, in conjunction with the front sig...

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• Long-sight

  ·noun Long-sightedness. ...

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• Peep sight

  ·add. ·- An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rif...

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• Second-sight

  ·noun The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future event...

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• Sight-hole

  ·noun A hole for looking through; a peephole. ...

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• Sight-seeing

  ·noun The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities. II. Sight-seeing ·adj Engag...

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• Sight-seer

  ·noun One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities. ...

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• Sight-shot

  ·noun Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. ...

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• Telescopic sight

  ·add. ·- A sight consisting of a small telescope, as on a compass or rifle. ...

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• plaguy sight

  This is a very common expression in the colloquial language of New England, and means, a great deal....

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• breech-sight

  The notch cut on the base ring of a gun. ...

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• chase-sight

  Where the sight is usually placed. ...

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• dispart-sight

  A gun-sight fixed on the top of the second reinforce-ring about the middle of the piece for point-bl...

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• gun-sight

  See disparting a gun, or sights. ...

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• millar's sight

  General Millar's simple dispart a sliding pillar bearing a scale graduated to tangents of degrees fo...

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• sight-vanes

  See vanes. ...

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• Close-banded

  ·adj Closely united. ...

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• Close-barred

  ·adj Firmly barred or closed. ...

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• Close-bodied

  ·adj Fitting the body exactly; setting close, as a garment. ...

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• Close-fights

  ·noun ·pl Barriers with loopholes, formerly erected on the deck of a vessel to shelter the men in a ...

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• Close-stool

  ·noun A utensil to hold a chamber vessel, for the use of the sick and infirm. It is usually in the f...

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• Close-tongued

  ·adj Closemouthed; silent. ...

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• Couple-close

  ·noun A pair of rafters framed together with a tie fixed at their feet, or with a collar beam. II. ...

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• Bartholomew Close

  At 32 Little Britain, on the west, south and east sides of St. Bartholomew the Great (P.O. Directory...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• (St.) Paul's Close

  The close of St. Paul's situate near the Dean's mansion, 1361 (Ct. H.W. II. 25). ...

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• Tasell Close

  See Old Artillery Ground. ...

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• Weld Close

  See Wellclose Square. ...

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• Well Close

  1) See Well Yard, Little Britain. 2) See Wellclose Square. ...

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• close-fisted

  Covetous or stingy. ...

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• close-fisted

  Stingy, mean. Common in various dialects of England.--Halliwell. Ibycus is a carking, griping, clos...

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• close-aboard

  Near or alongside; too close to be safe. "The boat is close aboard," a caution to the officer in com...

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• close-butt

  Where caulking is not used, the butts or joints of the planks are sometimes rabbeted, and fayed clos...

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• close contract

  One not advertised. ...

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• close-fist

  One who drives a hard bargain in petty traffic. ...

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• close harbour

  That is one gained by labour from the element, formed by encircling a portion of water with walls an...

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• close-hauled

  The general arrangement or trim of a ship's sails when she endeavours to progress in the nearest dir...

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• close pack

  The ice floes so jammed together that boring is impossible, and present efforts useless. (See pack-i...

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• close-ports

  Those which lie up rivers; a term in contradistinction to out-ports. ...

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• close-fights

  See close-quarters ...

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• close-quarters

  , or close-fights Certain strong bulk-heads or barriers of wood, formerly stretching across a merc...

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• close-reefed

  The last reefs of the top-sails, or other sails set, being taken in. ...

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• bill at sight

  To pay a bill at sight; to be ready at all times for the venereal act. ...

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• least in sight

  To play least in sight; to hide, keep out of the way, or make one's self scarce. ...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• to heave in sight

  To come in sight; to appear. This nautical phrase appears to have originated in the fact that an app...

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• bill of sight

  , or bill of view A warrant for a custom-house officer to examine goods which had been shipped for...

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• hove-in-sight

  The anchor in view. Also, a sail just discovered. ...

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• heave and in sight

  A notice given by the boatswain to the crew when the anchor is drawn up so near the surface of the w...

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• sight the anchor, to

  To heave it up in sight, in order to prove that it is clear, when, from the ship having gone over it...

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• Great St. Bartholomew Close

  See Bartholomew Close. ...

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• close the wind, to

  To haul to it. ♦ Close upon a tack or bowline, or close by a wind, is when the wind is on either b...

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• notch-sight of a gun

  A sight having a V-shaped notch, wherein the eye easily finds the lowest or central point. ...

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• close with the land, to

  To approach near to it. ...

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