To see, discover or determine something, unclear, distant or hidden, by looking carefully.
1 Five miles later she was able to descry what troops marched there.
2 The snow on the ground enabled the two to descry each other.
3 We did not descry it till we saw the ground under us.
4 But not yet could I descry beginning or end of the couches.
5 While you yet speak methinks I can descry them on the sea.
6 I looked in all directions, trying to descry Caleb in the crowd.
7 Some even believed that they could descry hair, limbs, and whole bodies.
8 He is so eager to descry differences, that he overlooks similarities-nay ,identities
9 Too often, we could descry smoke rising from the latest embattled settlement.
10 Policies are originated, put on the table-andwe descry their consequences.
11 Silvey strained his eyes far out in an effort to descry the captive.
12 The mountaineer sent a quick gaze up the air, as to descry signs.
13 STRANGER: In these divisions, Socrates, I descry what would make another famous jest.
14 Samuel's sleepy eyes could just descry him in the thick gloom.
15 They could just descry the dark, looming objects gliding swiftly and silently along.
16 By that anomalous light you descry rows of empty shelves with some difficulty.
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