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SCENES |
Sights |
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CITES |
Mentions sights |
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AIMED |
Adjusted sights |
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CORALS |
Snorkeling sights |
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EYESORES |
Styes are not pretty sights! |
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PINULE |
One of the sights of an astrolabe. |
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VANE |
One of the sights of a compass, quadrant, etc. |
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SIGHT-SEEING |
The act of seeing sights; eagerness for novelties or
curiosities. |
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SIGHT-SEER |
One given to seeing sights or noted things, or eager
for novelties or curiosities. |
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LABEL |
A brass rule with sights, formerly used, in connection with
a circumferentor, to take altitudes. |
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DEMICIRCLE |
An instrument for measuring angles, in surveying, etc.
It resembles a protractor, but has an alidade, sights, and a compass. |
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DROPPER |
A dog which suddenly drops upon the ground when it sights
game, -- formerly a common, and still an occasional, habit of the
setter. |
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ALIDADE |
The portion of a graduated instrument, as a quadrant or
astrolabe, carrying the sights or telescope, and showing the degrees
cut off on the arc of the instrument |
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SIGHT |
To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to
give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to
sight a rifle or a cannon. |
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COLLIMATION |
The act of collimating; the adjustment of the line of
the sights, as the axial line of the telescope of an instrument, into
its proper position relative to the other parts of the instrument. |
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QUADRANT |
... index or vernier, and either plain or telescopic sights,
and usually having a plumb line or spirit level for fixing the vertical
or horizontal ... |