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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
SEC'OND-SIGHT, n. The power of seeing things future or distant; a power claimed by some of the highlanders in Scotland.
Nor less avail'd his optic sleight,
And Scottish gift of second-sight. Trubbull's M'Fingal.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Second-sight Sec"ond-sight`, n. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision. he was seized with a fit of second-sight. --Addison. Nor less availed his optic sleight, And Scottish gift of second-sight. --Trumbull.
Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms
n. Prophetic vision.
