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Definition of Night-sight
1. Noun. The ability to see in reduced illumination (as in moonlight).
Generic synonyms: Sight, Vision, Visual Modality, Visual Sense
Lexicographical Neighbors of Night-sight
Literary usage of Night-sight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Curiosities of Medical Experience by John Gideon Millingen (1839)
"Night sight, specifically called ... it always applies to a diseased vision ;
whence nyctalopia has been made to import day sight, instead of night sight. ..."
2. Naval Ordnance: A Text-book Prepared for the Use of the Midshipmen of the by Roland Irvin Curtin, Thomas Lee Johnson, United States Naval Academy (1915)
"For this reason, even if there were no others, the peep-sight could not be made
an efficient night-sight. However, in the daytime the apparent brightness of ..."
3. The Principles and Practice of Medicine by John Elliotson, Thomas Stewardson (1844)
"... under il being only able to see al night, or in a deep shade; while it has
been used by modern writers in the opposite sense oí night-sight-ache ..."
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