dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight,
double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c;
purblindness, lippitude†; myopia, presbyopia†; confusion of vision;
astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis†, Daltonism;
nyctalopia†; strabismus, strabism†, squint; blearedness†, day blindness,
hemeralopia†, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia†, xanthopsia [Med.]; cast in the
eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity of vision.
winking &c v.; nictitation; blinkard†, albino.
dizziness, swimming, scotomy†; cataract; ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c (hider) 530.
[Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus [Lat.]; refraction,
distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis†, virtual image,
spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma†; phantasm, phantasma†, phantom;
vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus [Lat.] &c (luminary)
423; specter of the Brocken; magic mirror; magic lantern &c (show) 448;
mirror lens &c (instrument) 445.
V. be dimsighted &c n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a mist
before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see
through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant†,
askant askance†; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate†.
dazzle, loom.
Adj. dim-sighted &c n.; myopic, presbyopic†; astigmatic, moon-eyed,
mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of
one eye, monoculous†; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole-
eyed; dichroic.
blind as a bat &c (blind) 442; winking &c v..