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Definition of Sights

1. Noun. An optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument.

Definition of Sights

1. Noun. (plural of sight) ¹

2. Noun. the things worth seeing in a particular place ¹

3. Noun. the devices through which one looks in order to aim a rifle or similar weapon ¹

4. Verb. (third-person singular of sight) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Sights

1. sight [v] - See also: sight

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sights

Literary usage of Sights

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Recreation by George O. Shields, American Canoe Association, League of American Sportsmen (1898)
"A man has all he can do to look after front and hind sights, and the game, ... After a little practice, the sights seem to come in line naturally; ..."

2. The Theory and Practice of Surveying: Designed for the Use of Surveyors and by John Butler Johnson (1880)
"But since all the back.sights are essentially positive and all the fore.sights are essentially negative, we may at once add all the back.sights together and ..."

3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare, William George Clark, William Aldis Wright (1878)
"No boasting like a fool; This deed I 'll do before this purpose cool. But no more sights!—Where are these gentlemen ? Come, bring me where they are. ..."

4. California: for Health, Pleasure, and Residence: For Health, Pleasure, and by Charles Nordhoff (1873)
"OF the great sights of the State which attract, year after year, an increasing number of intelligent tourists from all parts of the world, the Yosemite ..."

5. A Treatise on Surveying: Comprising the Theory and the Practice by William Mitchell Gillespie (1897)
"Best Length of sights. There are two classes of inaccuracies. With very long sights, the errors of imperfect adjustment and curvature are greatest; ..."

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