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Es·py    Audio Help   [es-pee] Pronunciation Key
–noun
James Pol·lard    Audio Help   [pol-erd] Pronunciation Key, 1785–1860, U.S. meteorologist.
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es·py    Audio Help   [i-spahy] Pronunciation Key
–verb (used with object), -pied, -py·ing.
to see at a distance; catch sight of.
[Origin: 1175–1225; ME espyen < OF espier ≪ Gmc; cf. G spähen to spy]

—Synonyms discern, descry, discover, perceive, make out.
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Main Entry:  espy
Part of Speech:  verb
Synonyms:  detect, discern, discover, find, glimpse, notice, observe, see, sight, spot, view, watch
Source:  Synonym Collection v1.1
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Main Entry:  catch
Part of Speech:  verb
Definition:  To perceive, especially barely or fleetingly.
Synonyms:  descry, detect, discern, glimpse, spot, spy
Source:  Roget's II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition
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Espy, James Pollard, 1785-1860, American meteorologist. He developed a convection theory of storms, explaining it in 1836 before the American Philosophical Society and in 1840 before French and British scientific societies; his Philosophy of Storms was published in 1841. He became meteorologist to the War (1842) and Navy (1848) departments and developed the use of the telegraph in assembling weather observation data by which he studied the progress of storms and laid the basis for scientific weather forecasting. 
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