descry

erottaa puhekieltä To see.
puhekieltä To discover (a distant or obscure object) by the eye; to espy; to discern or detect.
Shakespeare

Edmund, I think, is gone (..) to descry / The strength o' the enemy.

And now their way to earth they had descried.

When I had passed the vale where my bower stood(..)I came within view of the sea(..)and it being a very clear day, I fairly descried land—whether an island or a continent I could not tell; but it lay very high, extending(..)at a very great distance(..)

His purple robe he had thrown aside, lest it should descry him.