Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c; purblindness, lippitude†; myopia, presbyopia†; confusion of vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis†, Daltonism; nyctalopia†; strabismus, strabism†, squint; blearedness†, day blindness, hemeralopia†, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia†, xanthopsia [Med.]; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity of vision. winking &c v.; nictitation; blinkard†, albino. dizziness, swimming, scotomy†; cataract; ophthalmia. [Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c (hider) 530. [Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus [Lat.]; refraction, distortion, illusion, false light, anamorphosis†, virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma†; phantasm, phantasma†, phantom; vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus [Lat.] &c (luminary) 423; specter of the Brocken; magic mirror; magic lantern &c (show) 448; mirror lens &c (instrument) 445. V. be dimsighted &c n.; see double; have a mote in the eye, have a mist before the eyes, have a film over the eyes; see through a prism, see through a glass darkly; wink, blink, nictitate; squint; look askant†, askant askance†; screw up the eyes, glare, glower; nictate†. dazzle, loom. Adj. dim-sighted &c n.; myopic, presbyopic†; astigmatic, moon-eyed, mope-eyed, blear-eyed, goggle-eyed, gooseberry-eyed, one-eyed; blind of one eye, monoculous†; half-blind, purblind; cock-eyed, dim-eyed, mole- eyed; dichroic. blind as a bat &c (blind) 442; winking &c v..