n.

1. an instance of visual perception
   
   • the sight of his wife brought him back to reality
   • the train was an unexpected sight
2. anything that is seen
   
   • he was a familiar sight on the television
   • they went to Paris to see the sights
3. the ability to see; the visual faculty;
   vision, visual sense, visual modality
4. a optical instrument for aiding the eye in aiming, as on a firearm or surveying instrument
5. a range of mental vision
   
   • in his sight she could do no wrong
6. the range of vision;
   ken
   
   • out of sight of land
7. the act of looking or seeing or observing;
   view, survey
   
   • he tried to get a better view of it
   • his survey of the battlefield was limited
8. (often followed by `of') a large number or amount or extent;
   batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, muckle, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad, whole lot, whole slew
   
   • a batch of letters
   • a deal of trouble
   • a lot of money
   • he made a mint on the stock market
   • it must have cost plenty

v.

1. catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes
   
   • he caught sight of the king's men coming over the ridge