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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Long-sightedness.

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Examples

  • Short and long-sight would obviously have an impact on an artist's work, astigmatism too very likely to distort the final image.

    The World Through Blunted Sight 2007

  • Short and long-sight would obviously have an impact on an artist's work, astigmatism too very likely to distort the final image.

    40 entries from September 2007 2007

  • Short and long-sight would obviously have an impact on an artist's work, astigmatism too very likely to distort the final image.

    The World Through Blunted Sight 2007

  • Evidently the barmaid had heard of folk with the long-sight.

    This Scepter'd Isle Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • Coreans came on board to inspect the ship; and, as I looked towards the shore with the captain's powerful long-sight glasses, several natives collected round me to see what I was doing.

    Corea or Cho-sen The Land of the Morning Calm Arnold Henry Savage Landor 1894

  • Shales himself was as short-sighted as a bat; but his companions had the usual long-sight of agriculturists, and would descry the slightest movement in the church-yard, or any glimmer of light at the church windows.

    Aylwin Theodore Watts-Dunton 1873

  • That which is commonly called a long-sight, perceives in a prospect innumerable features and bearings non-existent to

    Martin Chuzzlewit Charles Dickens 1841

  • The 20-year-old struggled through 2010 when his degenerative long-sight vision and reluctance to wear contacts rendered rivals' faces a blur and at times made him a defensive liability.

    NEWS.com.au | Top Stories 2011

  • It's a dirty, rotten land-grab of a business, played like some damned child's game, only a long-sight bloodier. "

    Wagers of Sin Asprin, Robert 1996

  • Darwin notices that watchmakers and engravers are liable to be short-sighted, and that short-sight and long-sight certainly tend to be inherited. [

    Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

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