Sight

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·vi To take aim by a sight.

II. Sight ·vt The instrument of seeing; the eye.

III. Sight ·vt A spectacle; a view; a show; something worth seeing.

IV. Sight ·vt A great number, quantity, or sum; as, a sight of money.

V. Sight ·vt Mental view; opinion; judgment; as, in their sight it was harmless.

VI. Sight ·vt Inspection; examination; as, a letter intended for the sight of only one person.

VII. Sight ·vt To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.

VIII. Sight ·vt To get sight of; to See; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.

IX. Sight ·vt The act of seeing; perception of objects by the eye; view; as, to gain sight of land.

X. Sight ·vt The power of seeing; the faculty of vision, or of perceiving objects by the instrumentality of the eyes.

XI. Sight ·vt 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.

XII. Sight ·vt 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.

XIII. Sight ·vt 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.

XIV. Sight ·vt 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.

XV. Sight ·vt 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.

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