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black-eyed, a.
[black a. 18.]
1. Having black eyes. Cf. black eye 1.
1598Chapman Iliad i. p. 4 Nor will containe..his heauie hand before: The blacke eyde virgin be releast. a1667Cowley Lover's Chron. ix, Black-eyed Bess, her viceroy-maid. 1775Sheridan Duenna i. v, Egad, a very pretty black-eyed girl!
b. spec. Of a variety of pea: having a black speck.
1728W. Byrd Hist. Dividing Line in Writings (1901) 74 Each Cell [of N.C. pine cone] contains a Seed of the Size and Figure of a black-ey'd Pea. 1786Washington Diaries (1925) III. 56 They proceeded to sow the small black eyed pea. 1857Texas Almanac 13 Plant Black-Eyed..Peas. 1862Chambers's Encycl. s.v. Dolichos, D. sphaerospermus (Calavana or Black-eyed Pea), a native of the West Indies.
2. black-eyed Susan:
a. A name applied to various plants having pale flowers with dark centres, esp. Thunbergia alata and Rudbeckia hirta.
1891Cent. Dict. s.v. Thunbergia, The hardy annual T. alata, known locally by the name black-eyed Susan from its buff, orange, or white flowers with a purplish black center. 1900C. Bennett in W. D. Drury Bk. Gardening xv. 696 T. alata, with a buff-yellow corolla, and a very dark eye nearly approaching black (hence the common name Black-eyed Susan). 1906H. D. Pittman Belle of Blue Grass C. xvi. 241, I found all of the waste places now covered with black-eyed susans. 1956A. M. Coats Flowers & their Histories 226 ‘Black-eyed Susan’ (the annual R. hirta) immigrated in 1714.
b. U.S. slang. (See quots.)
1869in M. Mathews Beginnings Amer. Eng. (1931) 153 Among names of revolvers I remember the following: Meat in the Pot,..Black-eyed Susan. 1888Farmer Americanisms, Black-eyed Susan.—Texan for a revolver. |