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What does "descry" mean?

Descry: Edmund, I think, is gone . . . to descry The strength o' the enemy. Shak. And now their way to earth they had descried. Milton.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To discover; to disclose; to reveal. [R.] His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him. Milton.
  2. 3., Discovery or view, as of an army seen at a distance. [Obs.] Near, and on speedy foot; the main descry Stands on the hourly thought. Shak.

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