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Definition of Resight
1. sight [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: sight
Lexicographical Neighbors of Resight
Literary usage of Resight
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Australia Twice Traversed: The Romance of Exploration, Being a Narrative by Ernest Giles (1889)
"... Pass— Seymour's Range-—A fenced-in water-hole—Briscoe's Pass— The Finke—resight
the pillar—Remarks on the Finke— Reach the telegraph line—Native boys—I ..."
2. Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia for by American Philosophical Society (1909)
"Smilies I." Smiley is known to have gone far south, but whether he actually went
beyond Alexander Land, or was only the second to resight the Russian ..."
3. A Dictionary of the English Language: In which the Words are Deduced from ...by Samuel Johnson by Samuel Johnson (1805)
"... FO'resight. as [fore and tight.'] i. Prescience;prognostication ; foreknowledge.
The accent anciently on the last syllable. Let Eve, for I have drench'd ..."
4. Thirty Years' View: Or, A History of the Working of the American Government by Thomas Hart Benton (1858)
"All this was as good as >ld, and with an air of self-satisfaction at the resight
of it, in these paragraphs of Mr. Cal- Dun's speech: " Now, ..."
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