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in sight
(encz) | in sight,v dohledu Rostislav Svoboda |
in sight
(wn) | in sight
adj 1: at or within a reasonable distance for seeing; "not a
policeman in sight"; "kept the monkey in view" |
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To heave in sight
(gcide) | Heave \Heave\ (h[=e]v), v. i.
1. To be thrown up or raised; to rise upward, as a tower or
mound.
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And the huge columns heave into the sky. --Pope.
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Where heaves the turf in many a moldering heap.
--Gray.
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The heaving sods of Bunker Hill. --E. Everett.
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2. To rise and fall with alternate motions, as the lungs in
heavy breathing, as waves in a heavy sea, as ships on the
billows, as the earth when broken up by frost, etc.; to
swell; to dilate; to expand; to distend; hence, to labor;
to struggle.
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Frequent for breath his panting bosom heaves.
--Prior.
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The heaving plain of ocean. --Byron.
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3. To make an effort to raise, throw, or move anything; to
strain to do something difficult.
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The Church of England had struggled and heaved at a
reformation ever since Wyclif's days. --Atterbury.
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4. To make an effort to vomit; to retch; to vomit.
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To heave at.
(a) To make an effort at.
(b) To attack, to oppose. [Obs.] --Fuller.
To heave in sight (as a ship at sea), to come in sight; to
appear.
To heave up, to vomit. [Low]
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