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near-sighted, a.
[f. near a. + sight n. Cf. Icel. nærsýnn, Da. nærsynet, Sw. närsynt.]
1. Having distinct vision only of near objects; unable to see clearly at a distance; short-sighted.
1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2103/4 He is about 17 years old,..near sighted. 1723Pres. St. Russia II. 63 Being lame, near-sighted, pitted with the Small-Pox. 1775F. Burney Early Diary 3 Apr., He is so near-sighted, that he peers in every body's face a minute or two before he knows them. 1833J. Rennie Alph. Angling 17 The form of the eye in fishes proves that they are all very near-sighted. 1890F. W. Robinson Very Strange Fam. 146 Lewis..peered at me in his old near-sighted way.
fig.1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) II. 42 He had a near-sighted mind. 1864G. W. Dasent Jest & Earnest (1873) II. 41 Let our philology..rather be near-sighted than far⁓fetched. 1877Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. ii. 349 Learn not to be near-sighted in history.
2. Close, careful.
1828Moir Mansie Wauch vi, I found myself..well instructed in the tailoring trade, to which I had paid a near⁓sighted attention.
Hence near-ˈsightedness.
1811Malone's Boswell I. 360 Alluding, no doubt, to his nearsightedness. 1822–34Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 155 He was informed that nearsightedness was almost unknown among them. 1884E. P. Roe Nat. Ser. Story ix, The result of near-sightedness. |