"sighten" meaning in All languages combined

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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sight",
        "3": "-en",
        "id2": "inchoative"
      },
      "expansion": "sight + -en",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sight + -en.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sightens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sightening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sightened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sightened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sighten (third-person singular simple present sightens, present participle sightening, simple past and past participle sightened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
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      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "derived": [
        {
          "word": "sightening"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Chemistry of the Arts",
          "text": "The iron liquor should be sightened with logwood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Edward Andrew Parnell, Dyeing and Calico-printing, page 132",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not."
      ],
      "id": "en-sighten-en-verb-LdwsZqfy",
      "links": [
        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "calico-printing",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive, calico-printing) To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sighten"
}

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    {
      "word": "sightening"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "sight",
        "3": "-en",
        "id2": "inchoative"
      },
      "expansion": "sight + -en",
      "name": "af"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From sight + -en.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "sightens",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sightening",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sightened",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "sightened",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "sighten (third-person singular simple present sightens, present participle sightening, simple past and past participle sightened)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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        "English lemmas",
        "English terms suffixed with -en (inchoative)",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "English transitive verbs",
        "English verbs",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1830, Samuel Frederick Gray, The Chemistry of the Arts",
          "text": "The iron liquor should be sightened with logwood.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1849, Edward Andrew Parnell, Dyeing and Calico-printing, page 132",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "colour",
          "colour"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "calico-printing",
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        "(transitive, calico-printing) To add a fugitive colour to (a paste), to enable the printer to determine whether the figures are well-printed or not."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "transitive"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "sighten"
}