The Collaborative International Dictionary
Second-sight \Sec"ond-sight`\, n. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.
He was seized with a fit of second-sight.
--Addison.
Nor less availed his optic sleight,
And Scottish gift of second-sight.
--Trumbull.
Usage examples of "second-sight".
Gabby might have one of her rare postmenopausal second-sight bursts and read her mind.
The common Highland belief is that they show themselves to second-sighted persons, very frequently before the arrival of a stranger or a visitor, expected or unexpected.
Kilda, according to Martin, held that cows shared the visions of second-sighted milk-maids.
His father, still alive, was second-sighted, and so, to a moderate extent and without theory, was my friend.
When I desired any detail of savage custom, or of superstitious belief, I cast back in the story of my fathers, and fished for what I wanted with some trait of equal barbarism: Michael Scott, Lord Derwentwater's head, the second-sight, the Water Kelpie, - each of these I have found to be a killing bait.
When I desired any detail of savage custom, or of superstitious belief, I cast back in the story of my fathers, and fished for what I wanted with some trait of equal barbarism: Michael Scott, Lord Derwentwater's head, the second-sight, the Water Kelpie,--each of these I have found to be a killing bait.