It's not exactly Vegas, but, Henry must well know, a sighting of the Royal Abs is likely to cause no little ripple interest.
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The guns raised in unison, the sighting of the game, the rounds of shots, the thud as a prey is felled, and then the silence.
The first sighting of the oarfish was an 18-footer that surprised a diver off Catalina Island.
For non-Glass receiving citizens, a sighting is cause for excitement.
These men had come to kill him; their sighting Reid on the way was only an incident.
Major Cavender had wheeled his guns into position, and was sighting them.
Consequently it was merely by a process of sighting that he could obtain the places of the stars.
Before night he was not only dragging the chain, but was sighting the instrument.
"It's simply a sighting shot, Sir Ralph," he remarked quietly.
"instance of catching sight," 1853, verbal noun from sight (v.).
Old English sihð, gesiht, gesihð "thing seen; faculty of sight; aspect; vision; apparition," from Proto-Germanic *sekh(w)- (cf. Danish sigte, Swedish sigt, Middle Dutch sicht, Dutch zicht, Old High German siht, German Sicht, Gesicht), stem that also yielded Old English seon (see see (v.)), with noun suffix -th (2), later -t.
Verily, truth is sight. Therefore if two people should come disputing, saying, 'I have seen,' 'I have heard,' we should trust the one who says 'I have seen.' [Brhadaranyaka Upanishad 5.14.4]Meaning "perception or apprehension by means of the eyes" is from early 13c. Meaning "device on a firearm to assist in aiming" is from 1580s. A "show" of something, hence, colloquially, "a great many; a lot" (late 14c.). Sight for sore eyes "welcome visitor" is attested from 1738; sight unseen "without previous inspection" is from 1892. Sight gag first attested 1944. Middle English had sighty (late 14c.) "visible, conspicuous; bright, shining; attractive, handsome;" c.1400 as "keen-sighted;" mid-15c. as "discerning" (cf. German sichtig "visible").
sight (sīt)
n.
The ability to see.
Field of vision.