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descry Verb [-scries, -scrying, -scried] 1. to catch sight of 2. to discover by looking carefully [Old French descrier to proclaim]
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There Burton, who was completely worn out, lay ill for several months, during which time Speke made a push to the northward of more than three hundred miles, going as far as Lake Okeracua, which he came in sight of on the 3d of August; but he could descry only the opening of it at latitude two degrees thirty minutes. I never saw him afterwards, but I sometimes imagine that I descry a faint reflection of him in John Browdie. They had gone rather more than a league and had begun to descry the first houses of the village, the red-tiled roofs of which stood out from the green trees which surrounded them, when, coming toward them mounted on a mule, they perceived a poor monk, whose large hat and gray worsted dress made them take him for an Augustine brother. |
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