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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Having the ability to see.
  • adjective Having eyesight of a specified kind. Often used in combination.
  • noun People who have the ability to see considered as a group.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having eyesight; capable of seeing.
  • Having sight of some special character; seeing in a particular way: in composition: as, far-or long -sighted, near- or short -sighted, quick -sighted, sharp-sighted.
  • Having a sight; fitted with a sight or sights, as a firearm; by extension, arranged with sights so that a certain definite distance can be reached by using the sights: as, a rifle sighted for a thousand yards.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having sight, or seeing, in a particular manner; -- used in composition.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of sight.
  • adjective Not blind

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective able to see

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