| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Present participle | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb espy.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (espy) | 1. Catch sight of.[Wordnet]. 2. To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd.[Websters]. 3. To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe.[Websters]. 4. To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy.[Websters]. 5. Base verb from the following inflections: espying, espied, espies, espier, espiers, espyingly and espiedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "ESPYING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references) |
Specialty Definition: espy
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Verb] To see at a distance; to have the first sight of a thing remove. Seamen espy land as they approach it.. | 2: [Verb] To see or discover something intended to be hid, or in a degree concealed and not very visible; as, to espy a man in a crowd, or a thief in a wood.. | 3: [Verb] To discover unexpectedly. As one of them opened his sack, he espied his money. Gen.42.. | 4: [Verb] To inspect narrowly; to examine and make discoveries. Moses sent me to espy out the land, and I brought him word again. Josh. 14.. | 5: [Verb] To look narrowly; to look about; to watch. Stand by the way and espy. Jer.48. [This word is often pronounced spy, which see.]. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. |
| Geography | Espy is geographically located in Zimbabwe. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture). Its geographic coordinates are 18.583333 degrees South latitude and 31.233333 degrees East longitude. (references) | ||
| Wiktionary | 1: [Verb] To catch sight of; to perceive with the eyes; to discover, as a distant object partly concealed, or not obvious to notice; to see at a glance; to discern unexpectedly; to spy; as, to espy land; to espy a man in a crowd. (references) | 2: [Verb] To inspect narrowly; to examine and keep watch upon; to watch; to observe. (references) | 3: [Verb] To look or search narrowly; to look about; to watch; to take notice; to spy. (references) |
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Common Expressions: espy
| Expressions | Definition | ||
| James Pollard Espy | James Pollard Espy (or the Storm King) (1785 - 1860) was a U.S. meteorologist. (references) | ||
| Mike Espy | Alphonso Michael Espy, called Mike Espy, (born November 30, 1953) was a U.S. political figure. From 1987 to 1993, he served in the US House of Representatives from Mississippi. He served as the Secretary of Agriculture from 1993 to 1994. He was the first African-American Secretary of Agriculture. (references) | ||
| Willard R. Espy | Willard Richardson Espy (11 December 1910-20 February 1999) was a U.S. editor, philologist, writer, and poet. He is particularly remembered for his anthology of light verse and wordplay, An Almanac of Words at Play, and its two sequels. His writing and poetry regularly appeared in Punch, Reader's Digest, and Word Ways. (references) | ||
| William Gray Espy | William Gray Espy (born July 19, 1948 in Dothan, Alabama, USA) is an actor, best known for roles in soap operas such as The Young and the Restless as William "Snapper" Foster (1973-1975, 2003) and Another World as Mitch Blake (1979-1982, 1986-1990). (references) | ||
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