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Word Meanings - CLEAR-SIGHTED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Seeing with clearness; discerning; as, clear-sighted reason

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  • SEEMINGNESS
    Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
  • DISCERNANCE
    Discernment.
  • CLEARLY
    In a clear manner.
  • REASONING
    1. The act or process of adducing a reason or reasons; manner of presenting one's reasons. 2. That which is offered in argument; proofs or reasons when arranged and developed; course of argument. His reasoning was sufficiently profound. Macaulay.
  • CLEARER
    A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, clears. Gold is a wonderful clearer of the understanding. Addison.
  • SEERSUCKER
    A light fabric, originally made in the East Indies, of silk and linen, usually having alternating stripes, and a slightly craped or puckered surface; also, a cotton fabric of similar appearance.
  • 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.
  • SEEK
    Sick. Chaucer.
  • REASONLESS
    1. Destitute of reason; as, a reasonless man or mind. Shak. 2. Void of reason; not warranted or supported by reason; unreasonable. This proffer is absurd and reasonless. Shak.
  • REASONABLY
    1. In a reasonable manner. 2. Moderately; tolerably. "Reasonably perfect in the language." Holder.
  • SEEMING
    1. Appearance; show; semblance; fair appearance; speciousness. These keep Seeming and savor all the winter long. Shak. 2. Apprehension; judgment. Chaucer. Nothing more clear unto their seeming. Hooker. His persuasive words, impregned With reason,
  • CLEAR-HEADED
    Having a clear understanding; quick of perception; intelligent. "He was laborious and clear-headed." Macaulay. -- Clear"-head`ed*ness, n.
  • DISCERNINGLY
    In a discerning manner; with judgment; judiciously; acutely. Garth.
  • CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
    Acute discernment.
  • 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
  • SEEDLESS
    Without seed or seeds.
  • SEEDCOD
    A seedlip.
  • SEETHER
    A pot for boiling things; a boiler. Like burnished gold the little seether shone. Dryden.
  • 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.
  • MESEEMS
    It seems to me.
  • WORMSEED
    Any one of several plants, as Artemisia santonica, and Chenopodium anthelminticum, whose seeds have the property of expelling worms from the stomach and intestines. Wormseed mustard, a slender, cruciferous plant having small lanceolate leaves.
  • UNSEEMLY
    Not seemly; unbecoming; indecent. An unseemly outbreak of temper. Hawthorne.
  • LOPSEED
    A perennial herb , having slender seedlike fruits.
  • GAPESEED
    Any strange sight. Wright.
  • BESEECH
    1. To ask or entreat with urgency; to supplicate; to implore. I beseech you, punish me not with your hard thoughts. Shak. But Eve . . . besought his peace. Milton. Syn. -- To beg; to crave. -- To Beseech, Entreat, Solicit, Implore, Supplicate.
  • BESEEMING
    1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret.
  • UPSEEK
    To seek or strain upward. "Upseeking eyes suffused with . . . tears." Southey.
  • BERSEEM
    An Egyptian clover extensively cultivated as a forage plant and soil-renewing crop in the alkaline soils of the Nile valley, and now introduced into the southwestern United States. It is more succulent than other clovers or than alfalfa. Called
  • HALF-SIGHTED
    Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
  • HAGSEED
    The offspring of a hag. Shak.
  • UNFORESEE
    To fail to foresee. Bp. Hacket.

 

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