figurative. A sensory organ, esp. the eye, regarded as a portal between the mind, soul, heart, etc., and the outside world. Now chiefly in the eyes ar…

A sense organ, an instrument of sensation.

Originally: any of the faculties of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch; any of the five senses; †an organ of sense (obsolete); (in plural…

That which is responsible for sensation; (in later use also) a sentient being. Obsolete.

A sense organ. Obsolete.

= sensory, n.

A sensory organ. Cf. earlier sensator, n. 1 and sensory, n. 1. Obsolete. rare.

(originally) an organ of any of the special senses (sight, hearing, smell, and taste); (in later use also) any organ containing nerve cells…

A small sensorium, or small part of the sensorium (sensorium, n. 1a). Also: a small sense organ (cf. sensory, n. 1).