Word Meanings - GAPESEED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Any strange sight. Wright.

Related words: (words related to GAPESEED)

• SIGHTLY
  1. Pleasing to the sight; comely. "Many brave, sightly horses." L'Estrange. 2. Open to sight; conspicuous; as, a house stands in a sightly place.
• WRIGHT
  One who is engaged in a mechanical or manufacturing business; an artificer; a workman; a manufacturer; a mechanic; esp., a worker in wood; -- now chiefly used in compounds, as in millwright, wheelwright, etc. He was a well good wright, a carpenter.
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• STRANGENESS
  The state or quality of being strange (in any sense of the adjective).
• SIGHTLESS
  1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak.
• SIGHT-SEER
  One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
• SIGHTFUL
  Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love.
• STRANGELY
  1. As something foreign, or not one's own; in a manner adapted to something foreign and strange. Shak. 2. In the manner of one who does not know another; distantly; reservedly; coldly. You all look strangely on me. Shak. I do in justice charge
• SIGHTPROOF
  Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell.
• STRANGER
  One not privy or party an act, contract, or title; a mere intruder or intermeddler; one who interferes without right; as, actual possession of land gives a good title against a stranger having no title; as to strangers, a mortgage is considered
• STRANGE
  1. To be estranged or alienated. 2. To wonder; to be astonished. Glanvill.
• SIGHT-SHOT
  Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. Cowley.
• SIGHTFULNESS
  The state of being sightful; perspicuity. Sir P. Sidney.
• WRIGHTINE
  A rare alkaloid found in the bark of an East Indian apocynaceous tree , and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance. It was formerly used as a remedy for diarrhoea. Called also conessine, and neriine.
• SIGHT
  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
• SIGHTSMAN
  One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. Busby.
• SIGHTLINESS
  The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.
• SIGHT-SEEING
  Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.
• ESTRANGE
  extraneare to treat as a stranger, from extraneus strange. See 1. To withdraw; to withhold; hence, reflexively, to keep at a distance; to cease to be familiar and friendly with. We must estrange our belief from everything which is not clearly and
• PEEP SIGHT
  An adjustable piece, pierced with a small hole to peep through in aiming, attached to a rifle or other firearm near the breech; -- distinguished from an open sight.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• CARTWRIGHT
  An artificer who makes carts; a cart maker.
• ESTRANGER
  One who estranges.
• HIGH-SIGHTED
  Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
• WAINWRIGHT
  See WAGONWRIGHT
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• DULL-SIGHTED
  Having poor eyesight.
• MILLWRIGHT
  A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
• WHEELWRIGHT
  A man whose occupation is to make or repair wheels and wheeled vehicles, as carts, wagons, and the like.
• PLOWWRIGHT; PLOUGHWRIGHT
  One who makes or repairs plows.
• HOUSEWRIGHT
  A builder of houses.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• NEARSIGHTED; NEARSIGHTEDNESS
  Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. -- Near"sight`ed*ness, n.