Word: sightening
Part of speech: Noun
Syllables: sigh
te
ning
Definition: A colour used temporarily to enable a calico-printer to judge the pattern.
Morphemes:
Affix: see
Language: en
PoS: Verb
Meaning: To examine something closely, or to utilize something, often as a temporary alternative.
Affix: -th
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Used to form a term denoting the ordinal numeral corresponding to the value, being a natural number, of a mathematical expression.
Affix: -en
Language: en
Meaning: inchoative
Affix: -ing
Language: en
PoS: Suffix
Meaning: Having a specified quality, characteristic, or nature; of the kind of