Today's Word "espy"
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espy \ih-SPY\ (transitive 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.
"The seamen espied a rock within half a cable's length of the ship."
Espy is from Old French espier, to watch, ultimately of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German spehon. The act of espying is espial.
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