UNSIGHT

Etymology 1

Noun

unsight (uncountable)

Absence of sight; lack of vision

Etymology 2

Verb

unsight (third-person singular simple present unsights, present participle unsighting, simple past and past participle unsighted)

(transitive, rare) To remove the sight of or from

(firearms) To lose sight on a target

Anagrams

• Gutnish, husting, tushing

Source: Wiktionary


Un*sight", a.

Definition: Doing or done without sight; not seeing or examining. [Colloq.] Unsight unseen, a colloquial phrase, denoting unseeing unseen, or unseen repeated; as, to buy a thing unsight unseen, that is, without seeing it. For to subscribe, unsight, unseen, To a new church discipline. Hudibras. There was a great confluence of chapmen, that resorted from every part, with a design to purchase, which they were to do "unsight unseen." Spectator.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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