Crossword clues for espied
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Espy \Es*py"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Espied; p. pr. & vb. n. Espying.] [OF. espier, F. ['e]pier, from OHG. speh?n to watch, spy, G. sp["a]hen; akin to L. specere to look, species sight, shape, appearance, kind. See Spice, Spy, and cf. Espionage.]
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To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd.
As one of them opened his sack to give his ass provender in the inn, . . . he espied his money.
--Gen. xlii. 27.A goodly vessel did I then espy Come like a giant from a haven broad.
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To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe.
He sends angels to espy us in all our ways.
--Jer. Taylor.Syn: To discern; discover; detect; descry; spy.
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vb. (en-pastespy)
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Usage examples of "espied".
She glanced around, wondering what had happened to her kin and finally espied Aunt Tilly sitting beside Alistair Dermot.
Adriana nearly choked in surprise as she finally espied the tall, handsomely garbed Marquess of Randwulf.
When he espied her, he swept Felicity around the ballroom in wide circles, bringing them within close proximity of where she stood.
She halted abruptly with mouth agape when she espied the apprentice lying sprawled in total oblivion near the armoire.
Upon rounding the end of the conveyance, Colton immediately espied the ensnared hems and the swiftly separating garments.
Colton bent near solicitously, but when she shuddered convulsively after casting another distressed glance beyond him, he looked around in curiosity to see what had provoked this reaction from her and mentally cursed when he espied Alice Cobble, not only present against his wishes, but in the same slovenly condition she had been in when he had first brought her from London.
Philana ran at once to a front window and, peering out through the moonlit darkness, espied the glowing lanterns of the landau that had come to a halt in the drive below the stone steps.
While delivering his food, Felicity had espied quite by accident a small vial of a liquid substance wedged between books in the glass cabinet behind his desk.
Then Merryvale led on to the huge structure of stone and iron and wood that Adam had espied from far up the river.
He could not see the humour of his situation at the moment, but as he took a short cut through the shady mesquites toward his hut, he presently espied Margarita in ambush.
Arallanes, however, had espied the Mexican sneaking around, and he warned Adam in no uncertain terms.
By and by he espied Arallanes and his wife, with their friends, dressed in their best, parading toward the little adobe church.
Suddenly when he espied his brother Guerd he shook with the driving passion that had led him there.
Upon reaching the dock, Adam espied a skiff, with oars in place, with bow pulled up on the sand.
They crawled through sage to the height of a low ridge, and from here the chief espied game.