Chapter Sighted to Signer of S by Webster's Dictionary (1913 Edition)

Sighted to Signer

Sighted
(Sight"ed), a. Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; — used in composition; as, long- sighted, short-sighted, quick-sighted, sharp- sighted, and the like.

Sightful
(Sight"ful) a. Easily or clearly seen; distinctly visible; perspicuous. [Obs.] Testament of Love.

Sightfulness
(Sight"ful*ness), n. The state of being sightful; perspicuity. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

Sight-hole
(Sight"-hole`) n. A hole for looking through; a peephole. "Stop all sight-holes." Shak.

Sighting
(Sight"ing), a. & n. from Sight, v. t.

Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.

Sightless
(Sight"less), a.

1. Wanting sight; without sight; blind.

Of all who blindly creep or sightless soar.

Pope.

2. That can not be seen; invisible. [Obs.]

The sightless couriers of the air.

Shak.

3. Offensive or unpleasing to the eye; unsightly; as, sightless stains. [R.] Shak.

— Sight"less*ly, adv.- Sight"less*ness, n.

Sightliness
(Sight"li*ness) n. The state of being sightly; comeliness; conspicuousness.

Sightly
(Sight"ly) a.

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.

Sightproof
(Sight"proof`) a. Undiscoverable to sight.

Hidden in their own sightproof bush.

Lowell.

Sight-seeing
(Sight"-see`ing) a. Engaged in, or given to, seeing sights; eager for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-seeing
(Sight"-see`ing), n. The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-seer
(Sight"-se`er) n. One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager for novelties or curiosities.

Sight-shot
(Sight"-shot`) n. Distance to which the sight can reach or be thrown. [R.] Cowley.

Sightsman
(Sights"man) n.; pl. Sightsmen (Mus.) One who reads or performs music readily at first sight. [R.] Busby.

Sigil
(Sig"il) n. [L. sigillum. See Seal a stamp.] A seal; a signature. Dryden.

Of talismans and sigils knew the power.

Pope.

Sigillaria
(||Sig`il*la"ri*a) n. pl. [L., from sigillum a seal. See Sigil.] (Rom. Antic.) Little images or figures of earthenware exposed for sale, or given as presents, on the last two days of the Saturnalia; hence, the last two, or the sixth and seventh, days of the Saturnalia.