What is "descries"

Usage examples of "descries".

Their raptures now that wildly flow No yesterday nor morrow know : 'Tis man alone that joy descries With forward and reverted eyes.

Sudden a look of languor he descries, And well-feign’d apprehension in her eyes.

Washed from her eyes the Napoleonic glare, Divinely raised by that in her divine, Not the clear sight of Earth's blunt actual swerves When her lost look, as on a wave of wine, Rolls Eastward, and the mother-flag descries Caress with folds and curves The fortress over Rhine, Beneath the one tall spire.