释义 |
eyed, ppl. a.|aɪd| [f. eye n.1 + -ed2.] 1. Furnished with eyes.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 1459 Youre father is in sleighte as Argus eyed. c1430Lydg. Bochas Prol. (1544) 54 A prince..Eyed as a tigre with reason and foresight. 1553Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 15 An Elephant..is..eyed lyke a swine. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 203 For Roffy is wise, and as Argus eyed. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 154 He who even now seemed eyed, eared, strong and flourishing; will suddenly wax blind, deafe, and fall to nothing. 1832Tennyson Œnone 196 A wild and wanton pard, Eyed like the evening star. fig.1869R. Lytton Orval 117 The eyed air Sees not. b. With adj. prefix, as Argus-eyed, blue-eyed, fierce-eyed, hollow-eyed, two-eyed, wet-eyed: see the adjs. †c. Gifted with sight, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted. Also fig. Wide awake to. Obs.
1584T. Bastard Chrestoleros (1880) 82 Men..Eyde to their profit, but blinde to their paine. 1596Spenser F.Q. iv. iii. 7 They were both so watchfull and well eyde, That [etc.]. 1618Rowlands Sacred Mem. 45 Borne blind they knew..And most miraculous, now perfect ey'd. 1632J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 87 A god, though blinde, yet eyed sufficiently to spie out two spirits. 2. Furnished with an eye. Cf. eye 20, 21.
1804Abernethy Surg. Observ. 215 By means of an eyed probe. 1886Academy 22 May 358/2 Mr. Hall invented eyed-hooks [in fly-fishing]. 3. Marked or ornamented as with eyes: dappled, spotted. eyed hawk-moth (Smerinthus Ocellatus): a moth of the family Sphingidæ.
1815Shelley Alastor 450 Soft mossy lawns..eyed with blooms. 1821Keats Lamia 50 Eyed like a peacock. 1825Berry Encycl. Herald. I., Eyed..a term used in speaking of the variegated spots in the peacock's tail. 1843Westwood Brit. Moths I. 7 Smerinthus Ocellatus. The Eyed Hawk-Moth. 1878Browning Poets Croisic 53 That which perks and preens The eyed wing. 1889in Elvin Dict. Heraldry. |