Word Meanings - QUICK-SIGHTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Having quick sight or acute discernment; quick to see or to discern. Locke. --Quick"-sight`ed*ness, n.

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• HAVENED
  Sheltered in a haven. Blissful havened both from joy and pain. Keats.
• DISCERNANCE
  Discernment.
• HAVENER
  A harbor master.
• 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.
• HAVELOCK
  A light cloth covering for the head and neck, used by soldiers as a protection from sunstroke.
• QUICKBEAM
  See TREE
• ACUTE-ANGLED
  Having acute angles; as, an acute-angled triangle, a triangle with every one of its angles less than a right angle.
• LOCKER
  1. One who, or that which, locks. 2. A drawer, cupboard, compartment, or chest, esp. one in a ship, that may be closed with a lock. Chain locker , a compartment in the hold of a vessel, for holding the chain cables. -- Davy Jones's locker, or
• QUICKSTEP
  A lively, spirited march; also, a lively style of dancing.
• ACUTE
  Attended with symptoms of some degree of severity, and coming speedily to a crisis; -- opposed to chronic; as, an acute disease. Acute angle , an angle less than a right angle. Syn. -- Subtile; ingenious; sharp; keen; penetrating; sagacious; sharp-
• HAVE
  haven, habben, AS. habben ; akin to OS. hebbian, D. hebben, OFries, hebba, OHG. hab, G. haben, Icel. hafa, Sw. hafva, Dan. have, Goth. haban, and prob. to L. habere, whence F. 1. To hold in possession or control; to own; as, he has a farm. 2.
• DISCERNINGLY
  In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.
• QUICKNESS
  1. The condition or quality of being quick or living; life. Touch it with thy celestial quickness. Herbert. 2. Activity; briskness; especially, rapidity of motion; speed; celerity; as, quickness of wit. This deed . . . must send thee hence With
• LOCKET
  1. A small lock; a catch or spring to fasten a necklace or other ornament. 2. A little case for holding a miniature or lock of hair, usually suspended from a necklace or watch chain.
• DISCERNMENT
  1. The act of discerning. 2. The power or faculty of the mind by which it distinguishes one thing from another; power of viewing differences in objects, and their relations and tendencies; penetrative and discriminate mental vision; acuteness;
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• DISCERN
  1. To see and identify by noting a difference or differences; to note the distinctive character of; to discriminate; to distinguish. To discern such buds as are fit to produce blossoms. Boyle. A counterfeit stone which thine eye can not discern
• HAVENAGE
  Harbor dues; port dues.
• HAVEN
  habe, Dan. havn, Icel. höfn, Sw. hamn; akin to E. have, and hence orig., a holder; or to heave ; or akin to AS. hæf sea, 1. A bay, recess, or inlet of the sea, or the mouth of a river, which affords anchorage and shelter for shipping; a harbor;
• DISCERNIBLENESS
  The quality of being discernible.
• 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.
• ENQUICKEN
  To quicken; to make alive. Dr. H. More.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• GLOCKENSPIEL
  An instrument, originally a series of bells on an iron rod, now a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.
• MISBEHAVE
  To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; -- often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
• INSHAVE
  A plane for shaving or dressing the concave or inside faces of barrel staves.
• HIGH-SIGHTED
  Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
• PERACUTE
  Very sharp; very violent; as, a peracute fever. Harvey.