Word Meanings - EAGLE-EYED - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.

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• HOWELL
  The upper stage of a porcelian furnace.
• SHARPLY
  In a sharp manner,; keenly; acutely. They are more sharply to be chastised and reformed than the rude Irish. Spenser. The soldiers were sharply assailed with wants. Hayward. You contract your eye when you would see sharply. Bacon.
• SHARPER
  A person who bargains closely, especially, one who cheats in bargains; a swinder; also, a cheating gamester. Sharpers, as pikes, prey upon their own kind. L'Estrange. Syn. -- Swindler; cheat; deceiver; trickster; rogue. See Swindler.
• EAGLESTONE
  A concretionary nodule of clay ironstone, of the size of a walnut or larger, so called by the ancients, who believed that the eagle transported these stones to her nest to facilitate the laying of her eggs; aëtites.
• 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.
• EAGLEWOOD
  A kind of fragrant wood. See Agallochum.
• SHARPIE
  A long, sharp, flat-bottomed boat, with one or two masts carrying a triangular sail. They are often called Fair Haven sharpies, after the place on the coast of Connecticut where they originated.
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• SHARP-SET
  Eager in appetite or desire of gratification; affected by keen hunger; ravenous; as, an eagle or a lion sharp-set. The town is sharp-set on new plays. Pope.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• SHARPNESS
  The quality or condition of being sharp; keenness; acuteness.
• EAGLE-EYED
  Sharp-sighted as an eagle. "Inwardly eagle-eyed." Howell.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.
• EAGLE-SIGHTED
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted. Shak.
• SHARP-CUT
  Cut sharply or definitely, or so as to make a clear, well- defined impression, as the lines of an engraved plate, and the like; clear-cut; hence, having great distinctness; well-defined; clear.
• SIGHTLESS
  1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind. Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar. Pope. 2. That can not be seen; invisible. The sightless couriers of the air. Shak. 3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. Shak.
• SHARPSAW
  The great titmouse; -- so called from its harsh call notes.
• INWARDLY
  1. In the inner parts; internally. Let Benedick, like covered fire, Consume away in sighs, waste inwardly. Shak. 2. Toward the center; inward; as, to curve inwardly. 3. In the heart or mind; mentally; privately; secretas, he inwardly repines. 4.
• EAGLET
  A young eagle, or a diminutive eagle.
• 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.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• HIGH-SIGHTED
  Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
• BALD EAGLE
  The white-headed eagle of America. The young, until several years old, lack the white feathers on the head. Note: The bald eagle is represented in the coat of arms, and on the coins, of the United States.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• DULL-SIGHTED
  Having poor eyesight.
• SPREAD-EAGLED
  1. To place in a spread-eagle position, especially as a means of punishment. 2. being in a position with the arms and legs extended fully.
• PORBEAGLE
  A species of shark , about eight feet long, having a pointed nose and a crescent-shaped tail; -- called also mackerel shark.
• WATER EAGLE
  The osprey.
• SHARPEN
  To make sharp. Specifically: To give a keen edge or fine point to; to make sharper; as, to sharpen an ax, or the teeth of a saw. To render more quick or acute in perception; to make more ready or ingenious. The air . . . sharpened his visual ray
• SHARP
  scharp, scarp, AS. scearp; akin to OS. skarp, LG. scharp, D. scherp, G. scharf, Dan. & Sw. skarp, Icel. skarpr. Cf. Escarp, Scrape, 1. Having a very thin edge or fine point; of a nature to cut or pierce easily; not blunt or dull; keen. He dies