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• vanes

  The sights of cross-staffs, fore-staffs, quadrants, &c., are pieces of brass standing perpendicularl...

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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.

• 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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• close-sight

  The notch in the base-ring of a cannon, to place the eye in a line with the top-sight. ...

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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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• bill at sight

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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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• 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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