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1. trans. To deprive of sight. rare.
1615. Chapman, Odyss., IX. 595. Their full bags so sore, With being vnemptied; but their shepheard more, With being vnsighted.
1638. N. Whiting, Il Insonio Insonnadado, 468. His armed brow fell down; and lighting right His antlers did the marching god unsight.
2. In pa. ppl. Of a coursing dog: Deprived of a sight of the hare.
1825. Sporting Mag., XVI. 268/2. If one or both dogs be unsighted, owing to the hare running through bushes or a live hedge,… the course shall be deemed to end there.
1876. Coursing Calendar, 124. Miss Alice on a strong inside led Handicraft, who threw her head up as though unsighted.
