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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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... great clamor until the menacing ship drew close enough for them to descry the dreadful pennant which showed as a sable blot against the evening sky. Two women fainted and others were seized with violent hysteria. Their shrill screams were so distressing that the skipper ...

— Blackbeard: Buccaneer • Ralph D. Paine

... Gorbals—craven lord! thou didst threat me with the cord; Come forth and brave my sword, if you dare!" But he met with no reply, and never could descry The ...

— The Bon Gaultier Ballads • William Edmonstoune Aytoun

... submission under the keels of their ships; after having caught the lightning of heaven and made it subservient to the ordinary purposes of life, the genius of man undertook to conquer the regions of the air. Imagination, intoxicated with past successes, could descry no limit to human power; the gates of the infinite seemed to be swinging back before man's advancing step, and the last was believed to be the ...

— Wonderful Balloon Ascents - or, the Conquest of the Skies • Fulgence Marion

... without its fascination for her. Leaning over the side of his dory, the sea girl would shiver with delight to descry those dismal forests over which they sailed, dark and dizzying masses full of wavering black holes, through which sometimes a blunt-nosed bronze fish sank like a bolt, and again where sting ray darted, and jellyfish palpitated with that wavering of fringe which produced the faintest of turmoil ...

— The Best Short Stories of 1921 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story • Various

... all sizes, shapes, and ages, we are soon conducted to the bottom of a deep hollow. Beyond this, the bare ground rises again abruptly up to the highest point of the high cliffs which overhang the shore; and here, where the site is most elevated, and where neither cottages nor cultivation appear, we descry the ancient walls and ...

— Rambles Beyond Railways; - or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot • Wilkie Collins

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