sight singing (sitsing"ing)

In music, vocal sight-reading. See sight - reader. sightsman (sīts'man), n.; pl. sightsmen (-men). [ In the first place our sights -man (for so they name certain persons here who get their living by leading strangers about to see the city) went to the Palace Farnese. Evelyn , Diary, Nov. 6, 1644. 2. One who reads music readily at sight. sight-vane (sīt'vān), n. A piece of bra or other metal, with a hole or slit in it, attached to a quadrant, azimuth compa , or other instrument, through which aperture the observation is made. See cut under prismatic. IMG:content-1040.png:[blocks in formation]