Crossword clues for sighting
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sighting \Sight"ing\, a. & n. from Sight, v. t.
Sighting shot, a shot made to ascertain whether the sights of a firearm are properly adjusted; a trial shot.
Sight \Sight\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sighted; p. pr. & vb. n. Sighting.]
To get sight of; to see; as, to sight land; to sight a wreck.
--Kane.To look at through a sight; to see accurately; as, to sight an object, as a star.
To apply sights to; to adjust the sights of; also, to give the proper elevation and direction to by means of a sight; as, to sight a rifle or a cannon.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"instance of catching sight," 1853, verbal noun from sight (v.).
Wiktionary
n. The act of catching sight of something, especially something searched for vb. (present participle of sight English)
WordNet
n. the act of observing; "several sightings of enemy troops were reported"
Usage examples of "sighting".
In hot pursuit of some other prey, it was already sighting down the barrel of its bazooka rifle.
As the Main Force headed for Bungo Strait, destroyers patrolling outside the strait suddenly reported sighting two enemy submarines.
It was not a human hand, of course, and the more the studied it, the more he began to wonder if all the crackpot theories, all the weird sightings, all the fantastic tales were true.
A list of cryptozoological sightings organized by geographical area, with special reference to those grouped around sites of current nuclear power plants.
Ag-413 was the location of the final recorded sighting of the Esen Monster, and its supposed destruction by the Kraal.
A chance sighting by a vindictive guard would bring a quick end to staking Upper Market and cause Gip to lose valuable information.
He had not slept at all since the first sighting of the Jansky Singularity by the long-range scanners, and not much for days before that.
Anyone sighting the Umatilla Wolf Boy can reach Jesse Kicking Deer at Rt.
Finley walked over to a set of machicolations, sighting through the holes where they would rain arrows down along the ramparts should the enemy attempt to scale them.
But neither of those explanations seemed to fit, although I was sure that other psychics had seen these goblins hundreds of years ago and that from those sightings had sprung the first tales of human metamorphosis into bat-form and lupine horror.
The Queller raised and aimed his weapon, sighting along the luminous barrel.
Sarah Rainmaker dropped to one knee, then lowered herself to hands and knees, sighting along the grass.
The last thing she wanted was for Rhoades Arbor to become famous for unfounded tales of ghostly sightings.
For as I dare say you have heard, Ringle, far ahead, has signalled a probable sighting of Cape Pilar, with something very near the right bearing.
Taking a quick nav sighting, Roids again struck out for the ever-so-distant settlement.