Word Meanings - OFTENSITH - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne.
Related words: (words related to OFTENSITH)
- SIGH-BORN
Sorrowful; mournful. "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey. - 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. - SIGHT-HOLE
A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak. - OFTENNESS
Frequency. Hooker. - SIGHTED
Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like. - SIGHING
Uttering sighs; grieving; lamenting. "Sighing millions." Cowper. -- Sigh"ing*ly, adv. - SIGHTING
from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot. - OFTEN
Frequently; many times; not seldom. - 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. - OFTENSITH
Frequently; often. For whom I sighed have so oftensith. Gascoigne. - OFTENTIMES
Frequently; often; many times. Wordsworth. - SIGHTPROOF
Undiscoverable to sight. Hidden in their own sightproof bush. Lowell. - SIGHT-SHOT
Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. Cowley. - SIGHTFULNESS
The state of being sightful; perspicuity. Sir P. Sidney. - FREQUENTLY
At frequent or short intervals; many times; often; repeatedly; commonly. - 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 - SIGH
1. To inhale a larger quantity of air than usual, and immediately expel it; to make a deep single audible respiration, especially as the result or involuntary expression of fatigue, exhaustion, grief, sorrow, or the like. 2. Hence, to lament; to - OFTENTIDE
Frequently; often. Robert of Brunne. - 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. - HIGH-SIGHTED
Looking upward; supercilious. Shak. - DULL-SIGHTED
Having poor eyesight. - CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
Acute discernment. - 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 - UNOFTEN
Not often. - NEARSIGHTED; NEARSIGHTEDNESS
Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. -- Near"sight`ed*ness, n. - SHARP-SIGHTED
Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n. - DESIGHT
An unsightly object.