Part 385

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

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.

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

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.

Sight"proof` (?), a. Undiscoverable to sight.

Hidden in their own sightproof bush.

Lowell.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Of talismans and sigils knew the power.

Pope.

||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.

||Sig`il*la"ri*a, n. [NL., fem sing. fr. L. sigillum a seal.] (Paleon.) ||A genus of fossil trees principally found in the coal formation; -- ||so named from the seallike leaf scars in vertical rows on the ||surface.

Sig`il*la"rid (?), n. (Paleon.) One of an extinct family of cryptagamous trees, including the genus Sigillaria and its allies.

Sig"il*la`ted (?), a. [L. sigillatus adorned with little images.] Decorated by means of stamps; -- said of pottery.

Sig"il*la*tive (?), a. [L. sigillum a seal: cf. OF. sigillatif.] Fit to seal; belonging to a seal; composed of wax. [R.]