Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - sight

 I. noun  Etymology: Middle English, from Old English gesiht faculty or act of ~, thing seen; akin to Old High German gisiht ~, Old English seon to see  Date: before 12th century  1. something that is seen ; spectacle  2.  a. a thing regarded as worth seeing — usually used in plural the ~s of the city  b. something ludicrous or disorderly in appearance you look a ~  3.  a. chiefly dialect a great number or quantity  b. a good deal ; lot a far ~ better not by a damn ~  4.  a. the process, power, or function of seeing; specifically the physical sense by which light stimuli received by the eye are interpreted by the brain and constructed into a representation of the position, shape, brightness, and usually color of objects in space  b. mental or spiritual perception  c. mental view; specifically judgment  5.  a. the act of looking at or beholding  b. inspection, perusal  c. view, glimpse  d. an observation to determine direction or position (as by a navigator)  6.  a. a perception of an object by or as if by the eye never lost ~ of the objective  b. the range of vision was nowhere in ~  7. presentation of a note or draft to the maker or draftee ; demand  8.  a. a device that aids the eye in aiming or in finding the direction of an object  b. plural aspiration set her ~s on a medical career  II. verb  Date: 1602  transitive verb  1. to get or catch ~ of several whales were ~ed  2. to look at through or as if through a ~; especially to test for straightness  3. to aim by means of ~s  4.  a. to equip with ~s  b. to adjust the ~s of  intransitive verb  1. to take aim  2. to look carefully in a particular direction  III. adjective  Date: 1801  1. based on recognition or comprehension without previous study ~ translation  2. payable on presentation a ~ draft