quick sighted

Adjective

quick-sighted (comparative more quick-sighted or quicker-sighted, superlative most quick-sighted or quickest-sighted)

1. Having keen vision.
   • The quick-sighted hawk saw the small mouse from a great height.
2. Keenly perceptive.
   • Gold is a ſutor, neuer tooke repulſe, […] It thawes the froſtieſt, and moſt ſtiffe diſdaine: / Muffles the clearneſſe of Election, / Straines fancie vnto foule Apoſtacie, / And ſtrikes the quickeſt-ſighted Iudgement blinde.1600, B[en] Jonson, “Riches. Description of Mammon.”, in R[obert] A[llot], compiler, Englands Parnassus: or The Choysest Flowers of Our Moderne Poets, with Their Poeticall Comparisons. […], London...