Word Meanings - SIGHTSMAN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. Busby.

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• BUSBY
  A military headdress or cap, used in the British army. It is of fur, with a bag, of the same color as the facings of the regiment, hanging from the top over the right shoulder.
• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• MUSIC HALL
  A place for public musical entertainments; specif. , esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.
• 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.
• READILY
  1. In a ready manner; quickly; promptly. Chaucer. 2. Without delay or objection; without reluctance; willingly; cheerfully. How readily we wish time spent revoked! Cowper.
• MUSICALLY
  In a musical manner.
• MUSICAL
  1. Music. To fetch home May with their musical. Spenser. 2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.
• SIGHT-HOLE
  A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.
• MUSIC DRAMA
  An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious
• MUSICALE
  A social musical party.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• SIGHTED
  Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition; as, long-sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.
• MUSICOMANIA
  A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.
• SIGHTING
  from Sight, v. t. Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• 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.
• 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.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• PHILOMUSICAL
  Loving music. Busby.
• 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.
• CLEAR-SIGHTEDNESS
  Acute discernment.
• DULL-SIGHTED
  Having poor eyesight.
• BREADSTUFF
  Grain, flour, or meal of which bread is made.
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• 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