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noun

Descry n. Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. (Obs.) "Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought."

verb

Descry v. t. (past & past part. descried; pres. part. descrying)

To spy out or discover by the eye, as objects distant or obscure; to espy; to recognize; to discern; to discover. "And the house of Joseph sent to descry Bethel." "Edmund, I think, is gone... to descry The strength o' the enemy." "And now their way to earth they had descried."

To discover; to disclose; to reveal. (R.) "His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him."

Synonyms: To see; behold; espy; discover; discern.

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... cannot describe the fear, and the dool, and the misery it caused. All flocked to the kirk-yett; and the friends of the newly buried stood by the mools, which were yet dark, and the brown newly cast divots, that had not yet taken root, looking, with mournful faces, to descry any ...

— The Life of Mansie Wauch - tailor in Dalkeith • D. M. Moir

... the golden dreams anon, Born as the busy day's last murmurs die, In swarms tumultuous flitting through the gloom, Their breathing lips and golden locks descry, And as the bees o'er bright flowers joyous roam, Around their ...

— See America First • Orville O. Hiestand

... and when he is gone there wants one and there's an end."[J] He, to be sure, has no conversation, and that is his discretion—but others display then as now a bolder discretion, and in their talk "fly for sanctuary rather to nonsense which few descry, than to nothing ...

— Microcosmography - or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters • John Earle

... their westward course through the middle of the Propontis, may at once descry the high lands of Thrace and Bithynia, and never lose sight of the lofty summit of Mount Olympus, covered with eternal snows. [14] They leave on the left a deep gulf, at the bottom of which Nicomedia was seated, the Imperial residence of Diocletian; and they pass the ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... a last farewell to home. Yonder it lies on the point—the fjord sparkling in front, pine and fir woods around, a little smiling meadow-land and long wood-clad ridges behind. Through the glass one could descry a summer-clad figure by the ...

— Farthest North - Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 • Fridtjof Nansen

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