espial
/ɪˈspʌɪ(ə)l
/ /ɛˈspʌɪ(ə)l/noun [mass noun] archaic
The action of watching or catching sight of something or someone: he withdrew from his point of espial...
- Presently he moved forward, and, with head still bent, approached the lower end of the garden, where, in a wall higher than that over which Goldthorpe made his espial, there was a wooden door.
- Among the crowd entering the exhibition he could easily keep her in sight without risk of his espial being detected.
Origin
Late Middle English (in the sense 'spying'): from Old French espiaille, from espier 'espy'.
Rhymes
- sucket spoon
- suckhole
- sucking
- sucking disc
- suck it and see
- suck it up
- suckle
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