sighten

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Definition of sighten

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

verb

(transitive)To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not.

“The iron liquor should be sightened with logwood.”
“Annexed is a specimen of calico in this stage of the process, the mordant on which is red liquor, “sightened” with a little decoction of peach-wood or similar dye-stuff.”

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From sight + -en.

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