Dictionary entry

Second-sight

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Sec″ond–sight′ (?), n. The power of discerning what is not visible to the physical eye, or of foreseeing future events, esp. such as are of a disastrous kind; the capacity of a seer; prophetic vision.

He was seized with a fit of second-sight. Addison.

Nor less availed his optic sleight,

And Scottish gift of second-sight. Trumbull.