descry

1. (transitive) To announce a discovery: to disclose; to reveal.Examples: "The kalender, […] hath late deſcry'd / That evill affected planet Mars, ally'd / To temporizing Mercury, conjoyn'd / I'th'houſe of Death; […]"; "His Body was found almost naked in the field, for his Purple Robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him, unwilling to be found."literarytransitive

2. (transitive) To see, especially from afar; to discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.Examples: "VVe vvere deſcried, theyle mock vs novv dounright."; "Wee haue descryed vpon our neighbouring / shore, a portlie saile of ships make hitherward."; "—Under this head I reckon a monster which, by the various names of Fin-Back, Tall-Spout, and Long-John, has been seen almost in every sea and is commonly the whale whose distant jet is so often descried by passengers crossing the Atlantic, in the New York packet-tracks."literarytransitive