Word Meanings - PRESTRICTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Obstruction, dimness, or defect of sight. Milton.

Related words: (words related to PRESTRICTION)

• 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.
• DEFECTIONIST
  One who advocates or encourages defection.
• DEFECTUOSITY
  Great imperfection. W. Montagu.
• DEFECTIBILITY
  Deficiency; imperfection. Ld. Digby. Jer. Taylor.
• DEFECTIVE
  Lacking some of the usual forms of declension or conjugation; as, a defective noun or verb. -- De*fect"ive*ly, adv. -- De*fect"ive*ness, n. (more info) 1. Wanting in something; incomplete; lacking a part; deficient; imperfect; faulty; -- applied
• OBSTRUCTIONIST
  One who hinders progress; one who obstructs business, as in a legislative body. -- a.
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• DEFECTUOUS
  Full of defects; imperfect. Barrow.
• 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.
• OBSTRUCTION
  1. The act of obstructing, or state of being obstructed. 2. That which obstructs or impedes; an obstacle; an impediment; a hindrance. A popular assembly free from obstruction. Swift. 3. The condition of having the natural powers obstructed in their
• MILTONIAN
  Miltonic. Lowell.
• SIGHT-SEER
  One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.
• SIGHTFUL
  Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. Testament of Love.
• DEFECT
  fail, be wanting; de- + facere to make, do. See Fact, Feat, and cf. 1. Want or absence of something necessary for completeness or perfection; deficiency; -- opposed to superfluity. Errors have been corrected, and defects supplied. Davies.
• MILTONIC
  Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
• DEFECTIOUS
  Having defects; imperfect. "Some one defectious piece." Sir P. Sidney.
• DEFECTIBLE
  Liable to defect; imperfect. "A defectible understanding." Jer. Taylor.
• DIMNESS
  1. The state or quality 2. Dullness, or want of clearness, of vision or of intellectual perception. Dr. H. More. Syn. -- Darkness; obscurity; gloom. See Darkness.
• 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.
• INDEFECTIBLE
  Not defectible; unfailing; not liable to defect, failure, or decay. An indefectible treasure in the heavens. Barrow. A state of indefectible virtue and happiness. S. Clarke.
• HALF-SIGHTED
  Seeing imperfectly; having weak discernment. Bacon.
• HIGH-SIGHTED
  Looking upward; supercilious. Shak.
• DULL-SIGHTED
  Having poor eyesight.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• SECOND-SIGHT
  The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison. Nor less availed
• NEARSIGHTED; NEARSIGHTEDNESS
  Seeing distinctly at short distances only; shortsighted. -- Near"sight`ed*ness, n.
• SHARP-SIGHTED
  Having quick or acute sight; -- used literally and figuratively. -- Sharp`-sight`ed*ness, n.
• DESIGHT
  An unsightly object.
• EAGLE-SIGHTED
  Farsighted and strong-sighted; sharp-sighted. Shak.