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eyen.1 Forms: 1. Singular. α. Old English æg- (in compounds), Old English æge, Old English eag- (in compounds), Old English eage, Old English eagh- (in compounds), Old English eahge (rare), Old English eg- (in compounds), Old English ege, Old English egh- (in compounds), Old English ego (Northumbrian), Old English egu (Northumbrian), Old English eug- (in compounds, rare), Old English heah- (in compounds, rare), Old English iege (rare), Old English–early Middle English eaga (rare), Old English–early Middle English eah- (in compounds), Old English–early Middle English eh- (in compounds), late Old English eægæ, late Old English eagæ, late Old English egæ, early Middle English eæȝe, early Middle English eaȝe, early Middle English ech- (in compounds), early Middle English echȝe, early Middle English eȝæ- (in compounds), early Middle English eȝhe, early Middle English hege, Middle English e (northern and north midlands), Middle English eegh, Middle English eeye, Middle English eȝe, Middle English egȝe, Middle English egh, Middle English eghe, Middle English egth, Middle English egthe, Middle English ehe, Middle English eige, Middle English eiȝe, Middle English eigh, Middle English eighe, Middle English eih, Middle English eihe, Middle English eyeghe, Middle English eyȝe, Middle English eygh, Middle English eyghe, Middle English eyh, Middle English eyhe, Middle English ȝe, Middle English ȝee, Middle English haye, Middle English he, Middle English hee (northern, north midlands, and East Anglian), Middle English heghe, Middle English heh- (in compounds), Middle English hei, Middle English heie, Middle English hey, Middle English heye- (in compounds), Middle English heyȝe, Middle English high, Middle English hye, Middle English hyee, Middle English hyȝe, Middle English hygh, Middle English ieae, Middle English iȝe, Middle English iȝee, Middle English igh, Middle English ighe, Middle English yȝe, Middle English yghe, Middle English yhe, Middle English (northern and north midlands) 1500s– (poetic) ee, Middle English (1600s poetic) eyen, Middle English–1500s ei, Middle English–1500s iee, Middle English–1500s iey, Middle English–1500s ihe, Middle English–1500s iye, Middle English–1500s ye, Middle English–1500s yee, Middle English–1500s yie, Middle English–1500s yye, Middle English–1600s eie, Middle English–1600s ie, Middle English–1700s ey, Middle English– eye, 1500s eaye, 1500s eey, 1500s i, 1500s yae, 1500s yei, 1500s yeie, 1500s yey, 1600s oÿ; English regional 1700s– ee, 1800s– e (northern), 1800s– e'e (Lancashire), 1800s– oye (Essex); Scottish pre-1700 eae, pre-1700 eee, pre-1700 ei, pre-1700 eij, pre-1700 ey, pre-1700 he, pre-1700 ie, pre-1700 pre-1700– eye, pre-1700 1700s– ee, pre-1700 1700s– eie, pre-1700 1800s e, 1700s– e'e; N.E.D. (1894) also records forms late Middle English eae, late Middle English hyghe; also Irish English 1700s iee. β. Old English eagenes (genitive, rare). γ. Middle English nee, Middle English neghe, Middle English nehe, Middle English nei, Middle English ny, Middle English–1600s nye, 1500s–1700s nie, 1600s neye; N.E.D. (1894) also records forms Middle English nie, late Middle English ney. 2. Plural. α. Old English æagan (chiefly late), Old English agene (genitive, probably transmission error), Old English eaga (transmission error), Old English eagan, Old English eagean, Old English eagen (chiefly late), Old English eago (transmission error), Old English eagon, Old English eagun, Old English eahena (genitive, rare), Old English eaxan (probably transmission error), Old English egan, Old English ego (Northumbrian), Old English egu (Northumbrian), late Old English ægon, late Old English eægæn, late Old English eagæn, late Old English eagam, late Old English eahgan, late Old English egæn, late Old English–Middle English egen, early Middle English æȝen (south-west midlands), early Middle English eaȝæn, early Middle English eaȝan, early Middle English eaȝean, early Middle English eaȝen, early Middle English eȝan, early Middle English eȝean, early Middle English eiȝæn, Middle English eeȝen, Middle English een (chiefly northern and north midlands), Middle English eeyen, Middle English eeyn, Middle English eȝen, Middle English egȝen, Middle English eȝhe, Middle English eghen, Middle English eȝhen, Middle English eghien, Middle English eghn, Middle English eghun, Middle English eghyn, Middle English eȝin, Middle English egthen, Middle English egyn, Middle English ehin, Middle English ehtyn, Middle English eiȝe, Middle English eiȝen, Middle English eighen, Middle English eiȝyen, Middle English eihen, Middle English eithen, Middle English eiyn, Middle English en, Middle English enn, Middle English eon, Middle English exyn, Middle English eye, Middle English eyeyn, Middle English eyȝe, Middle English eyȝen, Middle English eyghen, Middle English eyȝin, Middle English eyȝyn, Middle English eyhe, Middle English eyhen, Middle English eyien, Middle English eyiȝen, Middle English eyin, Middle English eyon, Middle English eyyn, Middle English ȝeen, Middle English ȝeȝen, Middle English ȝen, Middle English ȝien, Middle English he, Middle English heen, Middle English heȝe, Middle English hegehen, Middle English heȝhen, Middle English heien, Middle English heyghen, Middle English heyȝyn, Middle English heyin, Middle English heyn, Middle English hiȝen, Middle English hyen, Middle English ieen, Middle English ieghen, Middle English iȝe, Middle English iȝen, Middle English ighen, Middle English jen, Middle English jyn, Middle English yeen, Middle English yeȝen, Middle English yeghen, Middle English yehen, Middle English yeyn, Middle English yȝe, Middle English yȝen, Middle English yghen, Middle English yhen, Middle English yon, Middle English yyn, Middle English (1600s poetic and archaic) eyn, Middle English–1500s ain, Middle English–1500s eien, Middle English–1500s ein, Middle English–1500s ien, Middle English–1500s iyen, Middle English–1500s yen, Middle English–1500s yien, Middle English– eyen (now archaic and poetic), 1500s eyn; English regional (chiefly northern and north midlands) 1700s– een, 1800s heen (Lancashire), 1800s uyn (Somerset), 1800s– eyen, 1800s– eyn; Scottish pre-1700 en, pre-1700 eyn, pre-1700 1700s–1800s ein, pre-1700 1700s– een, 1700s eeen, 1700s eien, 1700s– e'en, 1800s eyen; also Irish English 1800s ein (Wexford), 1800s ieen (Wexford), 1800s– een (northern and Wexford); N.E.D. (1894) also records a form early Middle English ehȝen. β. Old English eagenum (dative, rare), Old English egna (Mercian, rare), late Old English eagene, late Old English eagne (dative), late Old English eagnum (dative), late Old English eahne, early Middle English eaȝnen (dative), early Middle English ehhne ( Ormulum), Middle English eeyne, Middle English eȝene, Middle English eȝenen, Middle English eghene, Middle English eghne, Middle English eȝhne, Middle English eghnes, Middle English eghyne, Middle English eȝne, Middle English ehene, Middle English ehne, Middle English ehnen, Middle English eiene, Middle English eiȝene, Middle English eighne, Middle English eiȝne, Middle English eiine, Middle English einen, Middle English ene, Middle English enghne (perhaps transmission error), Middle English enyn, Middle English eyeghen, Middle English eyȝene, Middle English eyghne, Middle English eyȝne, Middle English eyȝnen, Middle English eygnyn, Middle English eyhene, Middle English eyhne, Middle English eynen, Middle English eynes, Middle English eynez, Middle English eynin, Middle English eynon, Middle English eynyn, Middle English eynys, Middle English ȝene, Middle English hæȝene, Middle English heghne, Middle English heiene, Middle English hene, Middle English heyne, Middle English heynen, Middle English heynyn, Middle English hynon, Middle English iȝene, Middle English ine, Middle English inee, Middle English iyene, Middle English yene, Middle English ygne, Middle English ynee, Middle English yyne, Middle English (1800s Irish English (Wexford)) eene, Middle English–1500s eyene, Middle English–1500s yne, Middle English–1600s (1800s– archaic) eyne, 1500s–1600s eine, 1600s aine; English regional (northern and north midlands) 1800s– eyne; Scottish pre-1700 eene, pre-1700 eine, pre-1700 ewine, pre-1700 eyine, pre-1700 1800s ene, pre-1700 1800s eyne, 1900s– eens. γ. Middle English eȝes, Middle English eiez, Middle English eiȝes, Middle English eyeȝ, Middle English eyese, Middle English eyȝes, Middle English eyys, Middle English hyes, Middle English yeȝ, Middle English yȝes, Middle English yis, Middle English yys, Middle English 1600s eys, Middle English–1500s ees, Middle English–1500s yes, Middle English–1600s eies, Middle English– eyes, late Middle English iis (in a late copy), 1500s ayes, 1500s eeys, 1500s ies, 1500s iyes, 1500s yeis, 1500s yies, 1500s 1700s yees; English regional 1700s yees, 1700s– ees (now northern and north midlands), 1800s aies (Devon), 1800s– e'es (Yorkshire); Scottish pre-1700 eais, pre-1700 eeis, pre-1700 eis, pre-1700 eiyes, pre-1700 eyeis, pre-1700 eyis, pre-1700 1700s– eyes, pre-1700 1800s ees, 1900s– ehs (Dundee), 1900s– ehz (Dundee). δ. late Middle English nehene, late Middle English nene, late Middle English nyen, late Middle English nynon, 1500s–1600s nyes, 1600s neen (English regional (Yorkshire)), 1600s neyes, 1600s n'eyes, 1600s n'yes; N.E.D. (1894) also records a form late Middle English nyon. Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with Old Frisian āge , āch , Old Dutch ouga (Middle Dutch ōghe , ōge , Dutch oog ), Old Saxon ōga (Middle Low German ōge ), Old High German ouga (Middle High German ouge , German Auge ), Old Icelandic auga , Swedish öga , Old Danish øghæ (Danish øje ), Gothic augo < a Germanic base apparently ultimately < the same Indo-European base as classical Latin oculus eye (see oculus n.).Further etymology. Derivation from the same Indo-European base as classical Latin oculus eye (see oculus n.) is widely accepted but not phonologically straightforward, since forms in the Germanic languages indicate derivation from a base with the diphthong au- , and not the expected a- seen in e.g. Old High German ac-siuni appearances, and also (with regular development of ag- to aw- before stressed palatal vowels) in e.g. Old High German awi-zoraht openly, Old English ēawan , Old Frisian auwia , āwia , Gothic augjan to show (see atew v.). Several explanations for this have been suggested, such as a hybrid form (aug- ) arising from the existence of different stem types within the paradigm, or alteration as a result of association with the Germanic base of ear n.1 (compare Gothic auso at that entry). Form history. In Old English usually a weak neuter (ēage ). Although not shown by the spelling, the original velar consonant would have undergone palatalization in the nominative and accusative singular (before a front vowel) while remaining unchanged elsewhere (although subject to analogical levelling as indicated by inflected forms such as eagean). In Middle English there was a divergent development. In some parts of the midlands and south, long close ē in combination with a palatal gave a diphthong (/ei/); in others (probably the central and south-east midlands and central south) the vowel was raised to ī before the palatal plus vowel, resulting in such forms as ie, iye, ye, and (monophthongized) i (i.e. /iːə/, /iː/), ultimately, after the Great Vowel Shift, giving the modern standard pronunciation (although the standard spelling eye comes from varieties where the long ē was not raised). By contrast, in the north midlands and north and in Older Scots, long close ē maintained both its length and quality before the intervocalic palatal, and (after early loss of final -e ) developed into a diphthong with long first element ( /eːi/) which was subsequently monophthongized; compare the form e (i.e. /eː/), the antecedent of the modern northern English and Scots form ee ( /i(ː)/). The forms at Forms 1γ. and 2δ. show metanalysis (see N n.). Plurals. The weak -n plural is usual in Middle English, and survives into the developing early modern English standard (see Forms 2α. ); the form een remains current in regional varieties (chiefly in Scots and northern English). The forms at Forms 2β. show the development of a double plural with a second inflectional ending added to the already inflected form. The additional ending is typically weak, although occasional examples with the strong -s ending are found in later Middle English. Instances of such double plural forms are rare in Old English, but become more widespread in Middle English; compare also the Old English hybrid genitive singular form eagenes at Forms 1β. (showing a mixture of weak and strong endings), which occurs once in the interlinear gloss to the mid 11th-cent. Stowe Psalter. Later β. plural forms such as aine, eine, eyne, etc. may alternatively show spellings of α. plural forms (after final -e ceased to be pronounced). The -s plural (now standard) is first attested in the late 14th cent. (see Forms 2γ. ). Notes on specific senses. Earlier currency of sense 1c is implied by Old English glæsenēage (adjective) having eyes the colour of glass, grey-eyed ( < glazen adj. + Old English ēage eyed < ēage eye n.1 + -e , suffix forming adjectives; compare Old Saxon glesinōgo , Old High German glesīnougi ). With sense 10b(b) in botany compare French œil in the sense ‘part of a fruit opposite the stem’ (c1393 in Middle French). In sense 10d in geology after German Auge (1838 in Augengneiss , or earlier: compare augen n.). In sense 12a (in biblical contexts) directly or ultimately rendering Hebrew ʿayin spring, source of a spring, frequently identified by European authors with Hebrew ʿayin eye (compare quot. 1583). In the eye of Jacob at sense 12a ultimately after Hebrew ʿayin Yaʿaqoḇ (Deuteronomy 33:28), in uncertain sense, perhaps ‘the abode of Jacob’, or perhaps ‘Jacob's fountain’. In sense 17a in architecture after French œil (1547 in Middle French in oeuil de la Volute ), Italian occhio (1536 in †ochio della Voluta , or earlier), themselves after classical Latin oculus volutae (Vitruvius). With sense 18a in typography compare French œil size of printed characters (1690 in this sense). I. Senses relating to visual perception. 1. The organ of sight. the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > [noun] the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] eOE (Corpus Cambr. 173) lix. 116 Oxan tægl bið scillinges weorð, cus bið fifa; oxan eage bið V pæninga weorð, cus bið scillinges weorþ. OE (Corpus Cambr.) v. 29 Gyf þin swyðre eage þe æswicie, ahola hit ut. OE Ælfric (Claud.) Pref. 80 God gesceop us twa eagan & twa earan, twa nosðyrlu, twegen weleras, twa handa & twegen fet. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 9393 Ȝiff þatt tin eȝhe iss all unn hal. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 23 Þet beoð þes monnes eȝan, and his fet, and his hondan. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) (1898) l. 388 Þe sunne haþ brihtnesse muche..Hit greueþ euere mannes eiȝe..on hire to se For hire grete clerte. a1400 (a1325) (Fairf. 14) l. 3780 In slepe a ladder him þoȝt he seyghe fra þe firmament riȝt to his eyghe. a1425 (?a1300) (Linc. Inn) (1952) 1100 His eyȝnen [c1400 Laud eiȝen] out of his hed sterte. 1486 sig. bjv The yolow be twene ye Beke & ye yeghen. a1529 J. Skelton Poems against Garnesche in (1843) I. 117 Your ien glyster as glasse, Rowlynge in yower holow hede. 1587 Queen Elizabeth I in W. B. Scoones (1880) 31 Paine in one of my yees was only the cause. c1600 (1833) 179 Ane monstrous fische..havand greit ene in the head thairof. 1602 T. Dekker sig. G2v And there stucke a nose and two nyes in his pate. 1605 W. Camden i. 125 Piercing the king of Scots through the eie, as Hector Boetius fableth. 1674 D. Brevint 116 To set new Eies..instead of those that were bored out. 1679 J. Dryden iii. ii. 31 Do you leer indeed at one an other! do the neyes twinkle at him! 1704 R. Steele v. 58 Till its pretty Nies be all blubber'd. 1725 I. Watts ii. v. i. §7 The Distance at which these Glasses are placed from the Eye. 1774 O. Goldsmith IV. 192 The orbits of the eyes were deeper. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Three Graves in 21 Sept. 96 A little Sun, No bigger than your ee. 1831 D. Brewster xxxv. §166. 286 The human eye is of a spherical form with a slight projection in front. 1856 B. Brodie (ed. 3) I. v. 182 The eye of an eagle is nearly as large as that of an elephant. 1858 C. Kingsley 37 His eyne were shotten, red as blood. 1879 May 99 It follows that the rods and cones of the vertebrate eye are modified epidermic cells. 1908 17 Oct. 12/2 The eyes of the chameleon..appear to be mounted on ball-sockets, that act in a swivel-like manner. 1957 O. Barfield iii. 22 In..the production of a rainbow..the eye plays a no less indispensable part than the sunlight. 1989 B. Alberts et al. (ed. 2) xix. 1129 Each eye in a mammal such as a human or a cat sees almost the same visual field, and the two views are combined in the brain to provide binocular stereoscopic vision. 2012 S. Blake et al. v. 92/1 When the eye is looking directly at the light, the reflection of the light will appear to be in the center of the pupil. OE (Northumbrian) ix. 6 Leuit [read linuit] lutum super oculos eius : ahof..þæt lam ofer ego [OE Rushw. egu] his. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) xvi. 62 Wiþ eagena sar..genim þysse ylcan wyrte seaw & smyre ða eagan þærmid. lOE (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 94 Þa geseah he þa iunge men sittan on heora cneowan & heora eahne wæron gebundene. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 121 (MED) Summe þer weren þet his eȝan bundan. c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 426 (MED) He wolde þat he iseȝe Teres in evrich monnes eȝe. a1325 (c1280) (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 2068 Hare eyen openede & him knewe. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 10 Smale foweles maken melodye That slepen al the nyght with open Ihe [c1415 Lansd. yhe]. 1486 sig. bij An hauke that is broght vp vnder a Bussard..hath wateri Eyghen. c1515 Ld. Berners tr. (1882–7) xlvii. 157 The pyrates..bounde his handes..and iyen. 1554 J. Christopherson sig. U.viiv The clothe wherwith they couered his eyes, when they bette him. 1605 Z. Jones tr. P. le Loyer ix. f. 93 To some also it hath bin inioyned for a punishment and torment..to gaze vpon the glorious light of the Sunne, without being suffered to wincke and shutte his eyes. 1675 T. Hobbes tr. Homer xvi. 11 Kisses his head and hands, and both his eyne. 1751 T. Smollett II. lxxvi. 306 These gummy eyes, lanthorn jaws, and toothless chaps. 1840 E. Howard I. ix. 178 That kindly looking gentleman, that's blushing up to the eyes. 1860 A. Wynter III. 106 The wart hog,..which wallows up to its eyes in slush and mire. 1911 K. L. Bosher vi. 70 She wiped her eyes resentingly. 1959 V. S. Naipaul x. 111 Black up their eye and bruise up their knee And then they love you eternally. 2008 A. Davidson (2009) iii. 56 Her eyes opened wide, as if I had inserted a key into a secret lock. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > types of eyes by colour c1275 (?c1250) (Calig.) (1935) 75 Þin eȝene [a1300 Jesus Oxf. eyen] boþ colblake & brode. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) p. 442 He loked on þe wiþ wrake Sternliche wiþ his eyȝen blake. ?c1350 Ballad Sc. Wars 22 in A. Brandl & O. Zippel (1917) 137 His hegehen war gret and grai. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden (Harl. 2261) (1865) I. 145 That region hathe peple with white heire, peyntede eien and ȝelowe [L. oculis pictis et glaucis]. a1513 W. Dunbar (1998) I. 172 Eyn of ar maid of blew asure. 1587 L. Mascall (1627) 167 The Fleabitten, with a thinne crest, hauing blacke eyne. a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 52 in (1640) III With faire black eyes, and haire; and a wry nose. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 39 They reckon Women with big black Eyes, and red Cheeks, to be the greatest Beauties. 1713 A. Pope 15 He turn'd his azure Eyes Where Windsor-Domes and pompous Turrets rise. 1773 M. Browne viii. 117 'Twas there gay Phylla..Glanc'd the soft passion from her sky-blue eye. 1820 Nov. 155/1 Ye're conceited o' your bonnie blue een. 1891 S. J. Duncan 191 Mr. Pratte had very blue eyes with a great deal of laugh in them. 1907 D. K. Ranous tr. M. Serao xvii. 255 ‘Ill?’ asked the Romagnan of the frank brown eyes. 1930 A. Christie in May 241/2 ‘Oh, no!’ Jane opened her blue eyes very wide. 1969 L. A. Murray 71 Dazzling blue eyes Of winter stare from the box-trees The shadows of barns are thin with frosted straw. 2005 J. Weiner xxvi. 223 Her hazel eyes were shining. She looked as proud as a kid who's brought home her first A paper. ?1573 L. Lloyd f. 125 A Skilfull Painter beholding an exceeding fayre Image wanting onelye eyes and handes, thought to shew his cunning therein, and taking his pencell in hande to paint handes and eyes correspondent vnto the other members. 1664 G. Havers tr. T. Renaudot et al. xcvi. 557 So, painting an Eye upon a Scepter, which signifi'd God, they intimated also his properties, by the Scepter his Omnipotence, and by the Eye his Providence. 1765 H. Fuseli tr. J. J. Winckelmann 13 The large eyes of all the heads on Greek coins and gems. 1871 29 Apr. 435/2 The gaily painted boats, with large eyes in their prows, danced towards us on the swell. 1925 Mar. 36/2 When you are satisfied with the general form of your duck, put in the wings, eyes and bill with the pointed end of your wooden tool. 1996 (Nexis) 20 Aug. 11 Scott..thought the billboard posters would only feature demonic eyes behind a curtain. 2012 H. Graham ii. 44 He'd read that the Mona Lisa's eyes seemed to follow her viewers. the world > animals > invertebrates > bodies or parts > [noun] > eye 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. 327 There bee Insects with little hornes proaking out before their eyes. 1665 R. Hooke 178 Each of these Pearls [sc. in a drone-fly]..is a perfect eye. 1700 T. Brown viii. 87 Their Collections of Rarities exceeds that of John Tradusken, for here are..the Eyes of Oysters. 1713 W. Derham viii. iii. 401 Insects clean their Eyes with their Fore-legs, as well as Antennæ. 1774 O. Goldsmith VIII. iii. 37 It still, however, remains a doubt, whether the insect sees objects singly, as with one eye; or whether every facet is itself a complete eye, exhibiting its own object distinct from all the rest. 1841 T. R. Jones xv. 278 The individual eyes or ocelli, as we shall term them. 1878 VIII. 816/1 The compound eye..consists essentially of a series of transparent cone-like bodies, arranged in a radiate manner against the inner surface of the cornea. 1934 T. Wood xii. 153 The octopus..goggled his eyes and oozled his slimy, restless-writhing arms. 1958 J. E. Morton ii. 33 The strombids have large eyes mounted on optic tentacles and are the quickest and most alert of all bottom gastropods. 1971 R. E. Pfadt (ed. 2) Gloss. 660 Dorsal ocellus, the simple eye in adult insects and in nymphs and naiads. 2010 21 Aug. 65/3 Members of genus Histioteuthis..a group of squid.., are unique in the animal kingdom as their left eye is two to three times the size of the right. the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > [noun] > as possessing vision OE (2008) 1781 Þæs sig metode þanc..þæt ic on þone hafelan heorodreorigne ofer eald gewin eagum starige. OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius (Vitell.) (1984) xci. 134 Wiþ eagena dymnysse genim ðysse sylfan wyrte leaf. lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine (Vitell.) (1922) i. 22 Ða cwæð heo: hweðer geleornodest þu: þe myd þam eagum, þe mid þam ingeþance [L. sensibusne percepisti an intellectu]? c1175 ( (Bodl. 343) (1894) 6 Ic wolde beon ȝyrnende..þæt ic mid mine eaȝen iseon moste þæt þæt ic to þe wilniæn wolde. a1225 (c1200) (1888) 119 Adam mid his eiȝene iseih ðat wastme of ðe treuwe. ?a1300 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Digby) xix, in (1881) 4 194 (MED) Þat eye ne seeþ, herte ne reweþ. c1390 (a1376) W. Langland (Vernon) (1867) A. v. l. 200 (MED) Þen dimmede his eiȝen. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 323 in (2002) i. 308 Gase not on walles with þy neghe. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1957) iii. x. 12 Al his solace for tynsell of hyss e. 1584 H. Llwyd & D. Powel 31 Let them belieue no more but what they see with their Eies. 1651 T. Hobbes ii. xxv. 136 Many eys see more then one. 1738 J. Swift 199 They say, Hedges have Eyes, and Walls have Ears. 1796 J. Lauderdale To Public p. iv Paying an unobserved strick [sic] attention with both eye and ear. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in 102 There are no ears to hear, or eyes to see. 1871 D. G. Rossetti Dante at Verona in xxxiii Thou hast beheld, past sight of eyne. 1913 A. C. Ray vi. 66 Aileen's quick eyes saw him wince and draw back a little. 1960 W. Harris vii. 81 His penetrating trained eye saw every rock. 2005 R. Horsfall xxvi. 407 Her dark, bright eyes watched Michel's reflection in the mirrored wall. OE 1328 Nu we sceolon georne gleawlice þurhseon usse hreþercofan heortan eagum, mnan [read innan] uncyste. OE tr. Chrodegang of Metz (Corpus Cambr. 191) lxxix. 321 Þæt ge..hebbon æfre ætforan eowres modes eagum and eac eowres lichaman [L. ante mentis et corporis oculos], hwæt we and ge syn. lOE King Ælfred tr. St. Augustine (Vitell.) (1922) i. 27 Þa cwæð heo: wite þæt erest gewiss þæt ðæt mod byð þære sawle æge. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 157 (MED) Þe rihtwise Mon..mid þe eȝene of his horte bihalt in to houene and sicð þe muchele blisse þet he is to ileðed. 1340 (1866) 81 Al þet þe eȝe of herte yzyþ. c1425 (1923) 11 Beholdyng..thynges to cumme..with the yis of his soule. ?c1500 (Digby) l. 1124 Þer xall þey se me..with here carnall yye. 1564 R. Fills tr. M. Luther i. v. f. 16v The eye of our hart is not pure enough, wherewith wee should see how great the misery and ignomini of man is. 1600 W. Shakespeare iii. iii. 23 Sleepe..sometimes shuts vp sorrowes eye . View more context for this quotation a1698 F. Sheppard Cal. Reform'd in Duke of Buckingham et al. (1704) 234 This it is to want the Eye of Faith. 1703 W. Burkitt Mark vi. 6 A Spiritual Eye can discern Beauty in an humbled and abased Saviour. 1750 C. Smart 12 Let reason thro' the eye of faith View Him with fearful love. 1830 J. F. W. Herschel ii. vi. 166 To witness facts with the eyes of reason. 1882 F. W. Farrar I. 454 To the eyes of the unilluminated heart the region in which Faith lives and moves is a dark cavern. 1958 31 386 Both dramatists tend to see life through the eyes of innocence. 1997 C. Carson (1998) 274 Antiquated slo-mo newsreel footage or the eye of memory. 4. In singular and plural. eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iii. iii. 164 Ða heo þa weotan þas word gehyrdon, þa gecerdon heo heora eagan & heora ondwlitan ealle to him [L. ad ipsum ora et oculi conuersi]. OE (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 8 Ða hig hyra eagan upphofon, ne gesawon hig nænne. ?c1225 (?a1200) (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 44 Eue þi moder leop efter echnen. from þe echȝe to þe appel. From þe appel iparais dun to þen eorðe. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) John vi. 5 Whanne Jhesu hadd lyft vp the yȝen. a1400 (?a1325) (Harl.) (1875) 643 (MED) To hys fadyr he kast hys yen. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle 23 A treu lufer nouþer to þe warld dresses his ee. 1535 Ecclus. xxvii. 1 He that seketh to be riche turneth his eyes asyde. 1598 W. Shakespeare i. iii. 141 On my face he turn'd an eie of death. View more context for this quotation 1620 I. C. i. iii. sig. C2v The Duke passing by, cast his eye vpon them, and with it, I beleeue, his fancie. 1679 J. Dryden iii. ii. 39 Nor dare I lift an eye On him I have offended. 1748 S. Richardson VI. cxxiii. 391 Just then, turning my eye to the door, I saw a pretty genteel lady. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Anc. Marinere iii, in W. Wordsworth & S. T. Coleridge 20 Each..curs'd me with his ee. 1848 C. Dickens xiii. 123 He cast his eyes full on Mr. Dombey with an altered and apologetic look, abased them on the ground, and remained for a moment without speaking. 1891 T. Hardy 85 Lifting her eyes as bidden she regarded this human remnant, this ecorché, a second time. 1915 June 677/1 Jacopo turned his wide dark eyes on the man, wondering if he too would reprove him because of his picture-making. 1958 M. Spark v. 51 ‘Pas devant,’ said Tom Wells, casting his eyes towards the child. 1973 P. O'Brian ix. 233 Now cast your eye to old slowbelly in the rear, setting his topgallants and sagging to leeward something cruel. 1992 C. Sprawson (1993) v. 149 He continued in a state of deep meditation, till at last he lifted up his eyes to the sun. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) iv. 212 Þæt þæt we mid gitsiendum eagum agylton, þæt we nu mid wependum eagum behreowsiað. lOE King Ælfred tr. Boethius (Bodl.) (2009) I. v. 247 Þa þæt mod þa þillic sar cweðende wæs.., se wisdom þa & seo gesceadwisnes him bliðum eahum[eOE Junius eagum; L. vultu placido] on locodon. a1393 J. Gower (Fairf.) i. l. 140 With yhen wrothe. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer (Hunterian) (1891) l. 4264 If oon be full of vylanye Another hath a likerous ighe. ?1531 tr. Plutarch f. 12v He whom hate blyndeth not so, but that he may iuge hym, whom he hateth, & also may loke with indifferent eies, bothe vpon his lyfe, and his maners. 1556 tr. J. de Flores sig. F Chaste and shamefaste ees. 1611 Prov. xxii. 9 Hee that hath a bountifull eye, shall bee blessed. View more context for this quotation a1689 A. Behn (1690) iii. i. 30 I see she regards thee with kind Eyes, Sighs and Blushes. 1734 A. Pope 199 View him with..jealous eyes. 1820 J. Keats Eve of St. Agnes in 100 Those sad eyes were spiritual and clear. 1849 T. B. Macaulay I. 161 Bowls, horseracing, were regarded with no friendly eye. 1901 W. B. Yeats 14 Nov. (1994) III. 119 I shall watch the adventure with the most friendly eyes. 1976 12 Mar. 5/2 He turned loving eyes on the tormenting thugs. 1990 Dec. 34/2 Signorina X takes note with a baleful eye. 2004 A. Levy i. 21 The man sucked his teeth and flashed angry eyes in my face. 5. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of OE (transcript of damaged MS) 172 Ne mæg he [sc. higesynnig man] þæs inne ahwæt scotian gif he myrcelrs [read myrcels] næfþ manes æt egum, ac he on hinder scriþ. 1541 T. Elyot vi. f. 13 Thynges..that be frequent and often in eye, be lyttell regarded. 1567 J. Jewel iv. xvi. 459 Franciscus Petrarcha was made Poete in the Capitol, and keapte Laura his Concubine in the eie of the Pope. 1599 ii. 770 A very bloudy act..committed in eye of court. 1604 W. Shakespeare iv. iv. 6 We shall expresse our dutie in his eye . View more context for this quotation a1656 Bp. J. Hall (1660) ii. 125 He fights in the eye of his Prince. 1665 R. Boyle v. ii. sig. Kk1v Ill manag'd Persecutions of Doctrine..bring them into every body's Eye. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard i. ii. 82 He was no sooner remov'd out of his Eye, than that confidence began to stagger. 1677 A. Yarranton 38 A Harbour..in the very Eye of France. 1711 R. Steele No. 113. ⁋4 She helped me to some Tansy in the Eye of all the Gentlemen in the Country. 1740 T. Lediard (ed. 2) xxi. 190 A Crime,..committed in the Eye of the Public, and of the highest Nature. 1900 J. K. Jerome i. 17 Mr. Pertwee asked me if I had a skipper in my eye. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] c1475 (?c1400) (1842) 50 Þat for a tym desceyuiþ and iapiþ þe ȝee, but þis biggiþ þe vnderstonding perpetual. 1508 J. Fisher sig. gg.iv All thynges be naked and open to his [sc. God's] eyen. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid (new ed.) ix. f. 112 Too hyde this blemish from the eye. 1600 W. Shakespeare iv. i. 72 Is this face Heroes? are our eies our owne? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 126 Masking the Businesse from the common Eye . View more context for this quotation 1653 A. Marvell Let. 28 July in (1971) II. 305 Demonstrating to the Ey which way we ought to trauell. 1728 J. Cowper tr. W. Dunkin 6 A thousand various Arts we try To 'scape the watchful Porter's Eye. 1783 Oct. 316 The specimen is so truly novel and original, that we cannot withhold it from the eye of the learned. 1849 T. B. Macaulay II. 207 The conflict in the royal mind did not escape the eye of Barillon. 1908 May 693/1 Legrand..was said to have a cross of Indian blood, just enough to cause him to detect signs which escape the common eye. 1955 ‘N. Shute’ (1956) 95 For a moment they stood staring, unable to believe the evidence of their eyes. 1997 A. Sivanandan i. viii. 87 People were lined up along the streets as far as the eye could see. the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > family Canidae > sheepdog > [noun] > actions of 1933 L. G. D. Acland in 21 Oct. 15/7 Force..is different from eye, the dog's control of sheep by staring them in the face. 1938 J. H. McCulloch ii. 11 The most striking characteristic of the Border Collie is the one which shepherds refer to as ‘The Eye’, or the power of the dog to control sheep with its eyes. 1966 P. Newton 188 Plain-eyed: Most of our heading dogs show what is known as ‘eye’, i.e. when working a few sheep they ‘set’ them much as does a setter or pointing dog setting game. 1985 N. Rennie 37 When a heading dog first begins to eye sheep it is important to break the eye by calling it so that it looks at you. 2007 T. Williams i. iii. 33 The amount and type of eye a dog uses is vital in its effectiveness as a working dog. 6. 1340 (1866) 237 (MED) Vor hi [sc. the clergy] bieþ þe eȝe of holy cherche. a1382 (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Job xxix. 15 An eȝe I was to blinde. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius 173 I haue been ane Ee to ye blind. 1667 J. Milton iii. 650 The seav'n Who..are his Eyes That..Bear his swift errands. View more context for this quotation 1689 E. Hickeringill Concl. iv. 121 The Bishop's great Eye, (Mr. Arch-deacon) is getting himself a Stomach to his Dinner. 1781 T. Bever iv. i. 428 These instruments of power..are the eyes by which he sees the state of his dominions. 1807 W. Wordsworth Ode in II. 153 Thou best Philosopher,..thou Eye among the blind. View more context for this quotation 1893 223 This girl led her mother and tried to be eyes for her, describing the things that she saw. 1921 Dec. 429 'Tilda herself went with Uncle Allie to be eyes for him on the voyage. She had to..lead him about the deck and find his napkin for him at table. 2004 No. 24. 60/1 A stylist is an essential part of any fashion shoot. He or she acts as the eyes of the end user. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > [noun] > one who 1837 B. D. Walsh in tr. Aristophanes I. 17 (note) The King of Persia had certain officers who were called ‘his Eyes’. 1918 Mar. 107/3 ‘The use of the submarine,’ says Secretary Roosevelt, ‘has so changed naval warfare that more “eyes” are needed on every ship in order that a constant..lookout may be maintained.’ 1968 III. 82 They [sc. farmers] are our eyes in the field. They form an essential link between the livestock keeper and the researcher in the laboratory. 2009 J. F. Casey vii. 64 We need to get some eyes on the ground... Three or four covert teams..ought to do the job. 2013 S. Pearsall 71 Kitch then introduced Jay to the secretary, commenting, ‘Jay is our eye on the Congo’. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > one who sees > [noun] > watcher or look-out the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [noun] > private detection > person engaged in 1874 13 June 12/3 The great American Detective Bureau has succumbed to the sell of the period; the eye that ‘is always open’ has been found unable to see through a mill-stone with a hole in it. 1880 17 Feb. It may seen a wonder how such an institution as Pinkerton's can pass investigation... The ‘eye that never sleeps’ is open for more purposes than the public generally is aware of. 1900 ‘J. Flynt’ & ‘F. Walton’ iii. 21 Old 'Frisco Slim touched up one o' the big joolry places not knowin' that it was in the Eye's dead-line. 1901 J. Flynt 138 ‘The eye of the law’ oversteps the boundaries of his jurisdiction and compromises himself. 1914 L. E. Jackson & C. R. Hellyer 31 Eye (the),..The Pinkerton Detective Agency; an operative of the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Example: ‘Blow this joint; it's protected by the Eye.’ 1936 J. G. Brandon x. 90 As the existence of this watcher had been known for some considerable time to Inspector McCarthy..that astute young gentleman gave the ‘eye’ no chance to weigh upon him. 1955 No. 24. 141 The [Pinkerton Detective] agency is called the eye, from its trademark, the all-seeing eye. 1964 H. Kane iii. 34 I want you to meet this eye, but never alone, because this is an eye with an eye for the broads. 1996 M. Coleman vii. 82 An eye! A private eye! I bet that's what it stands for! society > communication > reading > reader > [noun] > collectively 1919 27 Sept. 28/2 Great feature films..were made and exhibited, reaching more eyes than any other pictures in the history of the screen. 1938 15 July 8/6 (advt.) There are 100,000 eyes waiting each day to read their ‘Home Town Newspapers’ about the things they want to know about. 1975 S. H. Chaffee & M. J. Petrick xi. 129 Television..can deliver more eyes per dollar, and hence is a better buy from the sales viewpoint. 2007 (Nexis) 1 Apr. 25 The video had a feverish viral run on the net, reaching half a million eyes in a single day. a1550 (c1477) T. Norton (Bodl. e Mus.) f. 33v Our stone departe ye shall in partes tweyne full egallye, with subtill balaunce and not with eie. 1576 H. Gilbert viii. sig. G.jv For that he iudged by the eye onely, seeinge wee in this out cleare ayre doe accompt 20 myles a ken at Sea. 1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Naturall Questions iii. xxviii, in tr. Seneca 826 If a man measure by the eye the crest of the highest mountaines, hee shall finde that the sea equalleth them in heighth. 1671 J. Brown 14 The hundredth thousand part is alwayes to be estimated by the eye in all Instruments whatsoever. 1719 J. Richardson 188 It does not appear to have been done by any other help than the Correctness of the Eye. 1741 (ed. 5) I. sig. 2O/1 Chain... Draw a rough sketch of the place by eye. 1774 M. Mackenzie 88 Estimate by the Eye the Distance of C from A. 1804 W. Tennant II. 38 Boiled down to a proper consistence, which they guess by the eye, and by the touch. 1860 F. Nightingale (rev. ed.) xiii. 161 Several..hospital ‘sisters’,..could, as accurately as a measuring glass, measure out all their patients' wine and medicine by the eye. 1869 O. S. Fowler 141 Excel in judging of property where bulk and value are to be estimated by eye. 1906 A. E. Knight iv. 146 Rightly judged by the eye, a catch should drop into the hands. 1921 26 Feb. 268/2 When you start your wall there seems by eye very little or nothing wrong with it, but when you have got it up some thirty or forty feet the out-of-trueness is appalling. 1965 J. Needham IV. ii. 48 In modern engineering parlance ‘a Chinese copy’ means a copy of a machine or of some component part made by eye, measurement, or tradition, without any diagram or drawings. 2001 J. Blurton i. vi. 49/2 It is extraordinarily difficult to accurately measure a pipe ‘by eye’..so don't bother. the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > [noun] 1597 E. Hoby tr. B. de Mendoza 108 There must be a speciall care taken in viewing by experience, & the eye of a soldior, the scituation which the enimie occupyeth. 1649 tr. R. Descartes i. 5 Looking on the divers actions and undertakings of all Men, with the eye of a Philosopher, there is almost none which to me seems not vain and useless. 1657 R. Austen (new ed.) 93 These buds..shew clearely (to a discerning eie). 1666 G. Harvey xix. 86 The case appears quite in another dress to the eye of a Physician. 1715 J. Richardson 150 He has a Good Eye on the Sense, as one is said to have a Good Ear for Musick. 1783 J. Beattie 119 If we have any thing of a painter's eye, we are struck with the waving lines that predominate so remarkably in his figure. 1855 T. B. Macaulay IV. 433 He had not..the eye of a great captain for all the turns of a battle. 1871 B. Jowett in tr. Plato III. 3 An eye for proportion is needed. 1932 P. G. Wodehouse xii. 207 House-broken husband though he was, he still had an eye for beauty. 1998 Jan. 9/2 The movie is best remembered for its hyperkinetic roller-blading scenes, which amply demonstrate that the director certainly has an eye for big-screen action. II. Something resembling the eye in function, appearance, shape, or relative position. 9. A hole or aperture. a. eOE (Royal) (1865) i. lxxxviii. 156 Wiþ þon ilcan [sc. an elfshot horse] nim tobrecenre nædle eage, stinge hindan on þone byrlan. a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 36 A nedle þre cornerid, whos iȝe schal be holid on boþe sidis. 1575 G. Turberville 277 Thruste the eye of the needle beeing threeded, into the greater parte of the feather towardes the quyll. 1598 tr. L. B. Alberti x. f. 33v Though a needle haue two, three eyes or more, by reason whereof it carries as many threds with it, yet it makes but one entrance. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) London 190 A Pin is a Blind Needle, a Needle a Pin with an Eye. 1714 A. Pope (new ed.) ii. 17 Wedg'd whole Ages in a Bodkin's eye. 1833 J. Holland II. 358 The formation of the gutters and the piercing of the eye. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. Saward 197/1 Embroidery needles..for canvas work..are short, thick, and blunt, and the eye is wide and long. 1911 XXIV. 744/1 The foundation of machine-sewing was laid by the invention of a double-pointed needle, with the eye in the centre. 1970 A. L. Simon & R. Howe 239/1 Larding needle, a long steel needle with a large eye into which narrow strips of pork fat or larding bacon are threaded. 2004 Nov. 40/3 By doing a ‘double travel’—turning the needle over between the layers and pushing eye end first—you will reach a spot further away than one needle length would reach. the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > small opening OE (Corpus Cambr.) xix. 24 Ic eow secge þæt eaðelicre byð þam olfende to ganne þurh nædle eage [L. per foramen acus] þonne se welega on heofona rice ga. ?c1335 in W. Heuser (1904) 91 (MED) Hit is as eþe forto bring A camel in to þe neld is ei, As a rich man to bring In to þe blisse þat is an hei. c1384 (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Matt. xix. 24 It is liȝter, or eysier, a camel for to passe thorwȝ a nedelis eiȝe. c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan (Longleat) (1904) 54 A chamelle shuld souner passe throwe an nedelles ye. 1533 tr. Erasmus xxxiv. sig. Rvijv It is more easy for a camell to crepe thrugh the eye of a nedle than a ryche man to entre in to the kyngdome of heuen. 1579 S. Gosson f. 9 Euery one of them may..daunce the wilde morice in an needles eye. 1609 W. Shakespeare ii. i. 82 So much wit..As will stop the eye of Hellens needle. 1622 C. Fitzgeffry 46 He had learned also how to make the Camell passe through the needles eye, namely, by casting off the bunch on the back. 1668 W. Davenant i. i The invisible rogue threaded a lane as narrow as a needle's eye. 1720 C. Shadwell Sham Prince ii, in 139 My Circumstances are as narrow as the Eye of a Needle. a1739 C. Jarvis tr. M. de Cervantes (1742) II. ii. ii. 99 I have heard say of these masters, that they can thrust the point of a sword through the eye of a needle. 1828 D. M. Moir ix. 78 Me and the minister were just argle-bargling some few words on the doctrine of the camel and the eye of the needle. 1872 W. Besant & J. Rice I. xiii. 234 A single-hearted..rich man, for whom the needle's eye is as easy to pass, as for the poorest pauper. 1925 A. Huxley i. i. 11 Those roaring lions at Lady Trunion's..had no hope of passing through the needle's eye. 1940 V. W. Brooks xx. 414 People solemnly chewed their food very fine and slowly to be slender enough to pass through the eye of the needle. 2012 23 Nov. 40/5 There is an aldermanic tomb in a church..that declares that its owner, being both laden with goods and charitable, passed through the eye of a needle. the world > food and drink > food > dairy produce > cheese > [noun] > defects in cheese a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 7 A litel stone wiþ yene [L. lapidem oculatum]. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. lxxv. 1334 Chese y-yȝed and yrosted [MS yrestored] is nouȝt so euel as chese wiþ many yȝen and holes. a1450 (?a1300) (Caius) (1810) l. 2654 Stones..rubbyd, as they wer wood. Out off the eye ranne red blood. 1528 T. Paynell tr. Arnaldus de Villa Nova in Joannes de Mediolano sig. E ij Chese..not to tough..nor to full of eies. 1593 J. Eliot ii. vi. 49 This Parmesan is well gathered, and fresher then that Holland cheese, which is full of eies. 1607 E. Topsell 623 Cheeses made of their [sc. sheep's] milke is..full of eyes and holes. 1649 W. Blith xix. 112 A Mudde or Sludg..which is very soft, full of Eyes and Wrinckles. 1688 R. Holme iii. v. 244 Bad cheese..full of Eyes, not well prest. 1723 J. Clarke tr. I. i. viii. 29 Those large Spaces which we call the Eyes of the Bread. 1788 R. Briggs i. 19 If [thin Gloucester cheese]..is full of eyes and pale, or very yellow, it is poor. 1811 W. Aiton 455 Whey-springs or eyes, are seldom met with in the cheeses of Ayrshire. 1837 VII. 15/1 The smaller and rounder the eyes, the better the cheese is reckoned. They should contain a clear salt liquor, which is called the tears. 1879 G. F. Jackson (at cited word) I like bread full of eyes, cheese without any. 1955 J. G. Davis (ed. 2) 192 The holes or ‘eyes’..are the result of the propionic acid fermentation in the cheese. 2010 (U.K. ed.) Aug. 33/2 The characteristic holes, cheese makers call them ‘eyes’—arise from inconsistent pressing during production and have historically been a sign of imperfection. c. slang. the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > intestines > [noun] > large intestine > rectum > anus c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 664 Absolon hath kist hir nether Iye. 1788 St. G. Tucker (1977) 134 He..Takes Robin's pipe from off the shelf..And to the stranger's nether eye The taper point he doth apply, And shoves it in, up to the bowl, So well he understood the hole. 1969 B. Frechtman tr. J. Genet 22 I loved the violence of his prick,..the back of his neck, and the dark, ultimate treasure, the ‘bronze eye’, which he did not grant me until very late, about a month before his death. 1990 C. Shafer in F. E. Abernethy 203 Eye, rectum. 2007 W. Mosley (2008) 83 Her anus was small and pink... I ran my tongue around the puckered eye and she gasped. ?a1450 J. Arderne in (1914) xxiii. 119 (MED) The smallere heed [of the clyster] that is tofore schalbe putte into the ye of the mannes yerd. ?1889 ‘C. Deveureux’ I. 162 This splendid weapon..slightly tapered until it reached its head, where it suddenly widened again only to taper quickly off to a rounded blunt point, where its ‘eye’ was. 1922 J. Joyce iii. xviii. 711 When I unbuttoned him and took his out and drew back the skin it had a kind of eye in it. 1979 R. L. Rowan (1982) 13 The small opening..is called the external urinary meatus, or the ‘eye of the penis’. 2007 R. Sheppard 46 A pipe had been inserted into the eye of my penis to carry excess fluid into the bag. 1554 in T. Wright (1869) 57 For makynge the iee of the clapper [of a bell]..xiiijd. 1679 J. Moxon I. ix. 161 Put the Eyes of the Hindges over the Pins of the Hooks. 1747 W. Hooson sig. Ejb When the Miner haums a Pick, there is always Some of the Haum comes through the Eye. 1796 G. Pearson in (Royal Soc.) 86 445 Its [sc. the axe's] length from eye to edge was seven inches. 1827 J. F. Cooper I. ii. 26 He buried his axe to the eye, in the soft body of a cotton-wood tree. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 284 Eye of an anchor, the hole in the shank wherein the ring is fixed. 1881 F. J. Britten (ed. 4) 33 The eye should be made close to the end of the spring, which should be rounded. 1951 Apr. 196/1 The cable is not attached directly to the eye of the anchor, but is simply lashed to the shank at the eye with a short length of strong cord. 2008 J. DeLaRonde x. 114/1 Return the axe to the fire and bring the back of the eye to a good yellow heat. 1584 in J. D. Marwick (1882) IV. 370 Ilk stayn..beand of..twelf inche in the eye and ten inche in the hem. 1664 H. Power iv. 180 Sometimes, if the Damp draw towards the eye of the pit, then they set it into Motion by throwing down of Cole-sacks. 1686 Bp. G. Burnet v. 288 He comes out at the eye of the Milne all in Wafers. 1736 ii. i. 215 Having found a Fox's Earth, cause all his Holes you can find to be stopt (except the main Hole or Eye that is most beaten). 1780 A. Young (ed. 2) I. 257 He burns it in arched kilns, with several eyes. 1812 Chron. 5/2 When the men employed at the lime-kiln..went to their work, they found a man and a woman lying dead on the edge of its eye. 1843 4 i. 27 The main drain opens into the ditch at a spot called the ‘eye’. 1884 E. H. Knight Suppl. 605 A damsel on the spindle..causes the grain to dribble into the eye of the runner. 1922 T. E. Thorpe (rev. ed.) IV. 50/1 The hearth bottom thus formed slopes from the back to the open eye of the furnace and serves as a filter to separate the lead from the slags. 1954 3 The impeller comprises a disc having a series of impeller blades, and defining with the casing an inlet passage or eye and a discharge passage. 1963 (B.S.I.) ii. 10 Eye, the top or mouth of a shaft. 1969 43 25 The ‘banksman’ in charge of the ‘eye’ of the pit; the ‘check’ (where distinct from the banksman), his underground counterpart. 1998 R. F. Dalzell & L. B. Dalzell App. 230 Bell-shaped ‘eyes’, or tunnels, ran through the [brickmaking] kilns from end to end, with the number of eyes depending on the size of the kiln. 10. A spot resembling an eye. a. In an animal organism. the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > eye-shaped spot a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. xii. xxxii. 638 Þe pecok hath..a tayle ful of eyen. 1556 tr. J. de Flores sig. G7 Delectabler..then seamethe vnto the pecocke his tale chargede with ees. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny I. 396 They make a shew of the eyes appearing in Peacockes tailes. 1661 T. Blount (new ed.) xiv. 163 A skie coloured mantle..wrought with gold and Peacocks eyes. 1738 J. Barber iii. 49 So have I seen a gaudy Peacock plume Her Argus Eyes in the reflecting Sun. 1788 W. Cowper 4 The Peacock sends his..starry eyes. 1840 XVII. 334/1 In this last [variety] the eyes or circlets of the train [of the peacock] are shadowed out. 1860 E. B. Browning Christmas Gifts viii, in 48 The eyes in the peacock-fans Winked at the alien glory. 1903 18 July 12/1 Whistler painted for Mr. Leyland the famous ‘Peacock Room’—a wonderful scheme of decoration, peacock's eyes on a gold ground, the whole leading up to a fantastic full-length picture. 1989 K. Dunn iii. xxi. 258 Chick came and sat beside me with an exotic-bird coloring book.., whiling away his free hour by filling in the eyes on the peacock's tail with slow, painstaking blue. 2003 J. E. Rodgers (new ed.) i. 13 A team of scientists clipped the ‘eyes’ from some peacocks' magnificent tail feathers and learned that males missing as few as 20..eyes per tail experienced a dramatic drop in their mating games. the world > animals > birds > egg > [noun] > part of 1653 W. Harvey xvi. 85 And from this Resemblance we call it Oculum Ovi, the Eye of the Egge. 1741 (ed. 5) I. at Egg About the middle, between the chalazæ, on the side of the yelk, and in the membrane thereof, is a little vesica, or bladder, not unlike a vetch, or lentil, called the cicatricula, and by some the eye of the egg. 1895 18 May 712 The yolk of one average-sized hen's egg (from which the ‘eye’ has been removed). the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > eye-shaped spot 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in (rev. ed.) ii. xiv. 959 She hath four great wings, every one of them having eyes of divers colours. 1720 E. Albin Tab. IV On the 6th of July came Forth a beautiful Butter-fly with Eyes in his Wings. 1752 J. Hill III. 75 The Papilio, with roundish brown wings, with three eyes under the primary ones, and five under the others. 1860 W. S. Coleman vi. 72 The ‘eyes’ are velvety black. 1876 IV. 596/2 Tropæa luna,..with wings of a lemon colour, each with a ‘transparent eye’. 1959 L. H. Newman 78 The centre of the eye is black and wine-red... The hind-wings also carry large eye-spots. 2006 M. Golley (2007) 57 Eyed Hawkmoths will, when disturbed, gently wiggle to and fro, exposing the eyes on the wing. the world > animals > fish > [noun] > spawn > an egg or parts of 1840 J. Shaw 5 These two dark spots, however, ultimately turned out to be the eyes of the embryo fish. 1863 F. Buckland in G. C. Bompas (1885) vii. 125 No eyes yet in the [trout's] eggs. 1908 L. Rhead xii. 299 When trout eggs are within a week or so of hatching they are called eyed ova, the eyes of the embryo fish being distinctly visible through the shell of the egg. 2007 B. 274 862/2 The [salmon] eggs..were incubated in the hatchery until eyes were visible (‘eyed eggs’). b. In a plant or a part of a plant. the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > excrescence, bud, or fruit the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [noun] the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > root vegetables > potato > excrescence, bud, or fruit > process of forming fruit tr. Palladius (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 688 (MED) His eyon [L. oculos] sowe, of cutte as is the reed. 1572 L. Mascall tr. D. Brossard L'Art et Maniere de Semer in 54 For to graffe a subtill way, take one oylet or eye of a graffe, slyt it round, aboue and beneath, and then behind downe right, then wreath him of, and set him vpon another cion..then dresse him as is aforesaide. 1618 W. Lawson x. 28 Let your graffe haue three or foure eyes, for readines to put forth. 1673 N. Grew ii. i. 56 Potato's [root], where the eyes of the future Trunks lie inward. 1728 E. Chambers Oculi, Eyes, in botany, the gemmæ, or buds of a plant just putting forth. 1787 G. Winter 157 Six scotch potatoes, cut into thirty-three sets, with two eyes each. 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter (new ed.) §121 The points commonly known as the eyes of the Potato. 1882 18 Mar. 183/2 Vine eyes from Spain..make better and stronger Vines than those propagated from eyes produced in this country. 1929 H. A. A. Nicholls & J. H. Holland (ed. 2) ii. iii. 154 Cacao... at the base of the stalk of the pod there is a little swelling, called the eye, and it is from this part that the flowers for the next crop will come out. 1967 A. E. Cox ii. 38 Redskin... Round, pink skin, white flesh, moderately deep eyes. 1999 July 11/1 To hull strawberries, use the pointed end of a potato peeler to dig out the stalks, like you do when you take the eyes out of potatoes. the world > plants > part of plant > reproductive part(s) > fruit or reproductive product > [noun] > parts of > remains of calyx or eye 1587 T. Dawson (new ed.) f. 45 To keepe Apples, they lay them on straw strowed, the eye of the Apple downwards, and not the stemme. 1693 J. Evelyn tr. J. de La Quintinie ii. v. vii. 92 The best situation for Pears, their Figure being Pyramidal, is to be plac'd upon the Eye, with the Stalk upwards. 1703 W. Dampier 152 Another sort of small, red, hard Pulse, growing in Cods also, with little black Eyes like Beans. 1766 152/1 The peasants, therefore, every morning, visit their wild fig-trees and their garden fig-trees; and carefully examine the eye of the fig. 1838 T. Thomson 961 Near that part of the lobes which is contiguous to what is called the eye of the bean, there is a small round white body [sc. the radicle].., which comes out between the two lobes. 1858 E. Lankester & W. B. Carpenter (new ed.) §586 By the remains of the calyx..the eye of the gooseberry is formed. 1944 R. Matheson xxi. 531 The adult female is winged and it enters the ‘eye’ of the caprifig in order to oviposit in the ‘gall flowers’. 2002 J. Morgan & A. Richards 178/2 Nevertheless, many varieties do display very characteristic features, such as the wide open eye of a Blenheim Orange, or the tightly closed eyes of Worcester Pearmain and McIntosh. 2012 J. Ray 53 The color [of crowder peas] often concentrates around the hilum, or eye. 1597 J. Gerard ii. cclxii. 641 In the middle or eie of the flower, it is of a whitish or pale colour. 1629 J. Parkinson xxxiiii. 235 (heading) The murrey Cowslip without eyes. 1682 S. Gilbert 49 The double deep Philomot, lightning towards the bottom into Lemmon colour to the white of the eye, large flower and indeed a fine one. 1766 at Auricula The eye of the flower should be large, round, and of a good white or yellow. a1777 S. Foote (1778) ii. 30 For pip, colour, and eye, I defy the whole parish..to match 'em [sc. polyanthuses]. 1819 J. Taylor 129 Adonis—Red Morocco... Its flowers are of a bright scarlet, with a black spot or eye at the bottom. 1870 J. D. Hooker 268 Corolla minute, pale blue with a white eye. 1904 30 July 77/1 The [Dianthus] flowers are pure white with a narrow crimson eye. 1974 S. Clapham xi. 93 The ray florets, which resemble petals and form the showy part of the complete flower-head; and the disc florets which form the flattish centre or ‘eye’. 2009 (Nexis) 24 Dec. 21 The cheery golden eye at the centre of each [bedding primrose] flower will put a smile on your face. 1779 J. P. Fabricius 108/1 The three eyes or holes in a coconut-shell. 1807 F. Buchanan III. xiv. 50 The coconuts are placed, at one cubit's distance from each other, and buried so as just to be covered above the eyes. 1865 E. B. Tylor vi. 131 The diviner..will spin a cocoa-nut, and decide a question according to where the eye of the nut looks towards when at rest again. 1994 68 12/1 The yellow fleshy fruits [of Attalea crassispatha] are 32–45 mm long with sweet and mucilaginous fibers enclosing a nut with three eyes (basal pores), a characteristic of palms closely related to the coconut. 2005 A. Tawhai 164 A man knocked a nail through the eye of one of the husk-covered shells, and her son was able to dribble the fresh coconut milk into his mouth. the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [noun] > eye-shaped spot 1681 N. Grew iii. 277 The Crowned Ocular Coral... In this, which is also white, to the eyes on the sides, are added little Heads crowned or radiated round about. 1719 (Royal Soc.) 30 970 Next under the three Coal Veins is the Peaw Vein, so denominated because the Coal is figured with Eyes resembling a Peacock's Tayl. 1817 W. M. Craig tr. G. de Lairesse x. v. 165 Light marble is various; one sort entirely white, another bluish, a third flesh-colour, &c... They are all good when free from spots or eyes, and appear well against proper grounds. 1863 J. C. Robinson (rev. ed.) xiv. 294 The piece is grounded with an imbricated or scale pattern on blue, and is diapered with rosettes in turquoise, with dark blue and mulberry central spots or eyes. 1870 J. Roskell in 18 Mar. 647/2 When the button of melted copper..assumes a bright colour, and the centre, which the essayer calls the eye, being dark, the front brick is..drawn aside. 1913 J. Alexander in W. A. Davis & S. Sadtler (ed. 4) VIII. 606 A brush-full of the glue solution is mixed with little aniline or other colour, and painted out on a piece of white paper, when spots or ‘eyes’ appear roughly proportionate to the amount of grease present. 1986 D. A. Napier vi. 201 (caption) Pupillary reactions to eyespot patterns. Experimenters have discovered that subjects have the strongest emotional response to two spots or ‘eyes’ set horizontally. 1862 7 3 Of the many varieties of gneiss, one deserves special notice; it has been called Porphyroid gneiss, and differs from the characteristic gneiss in containing lenticular-shaped aggregations of feldspar in a fine schistose matrix. It is this variety which has sometimes been called Eye gneiss. 1866 P. H. Lawrence tr. B. von Cotta ii. ii. 233 Usually it [sc. orthoclase] occurs only in small grains, sometimes larger crystals or lentil-shaped masses so called, swellings or eyes (Schwielen, Augen), with the regular twin growth peculiar to orthoclase (porphyritic gneiss, augen-gneiss). 1898 37 Besides the bands and streaks of pegmatite there are many ‘eyes’ of felspar. 1954 109 299 Each eye is either a single potash-felspar crystal or, sometimes, an aggregate of several felspar crystals. 1972 B. S. Jangpangi in A. G. Jhingran et al. II. 365 The foliated biotite gneisses of Darjeeling Hills..contain lenticles and ‘eyes’ of calc-silicate rocks. 2010 C. Owen et al. (ed. 3) v. 104 (caption) Dramatically foliated and folded gneiss with some eyes, but not quite enough to call it an augen gneiss. 11. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. viii. xvi. 484 Þe sonne is þe yȝe of þe worlde. ?a1450 (c1385) G. Chaucer (St. John's Cambr. L. 1) (1894) ii. l. 904 The dayes honour and the heuenes eye, The nyghtes fo al this clepe I the sonne. 1571 T. Fortescue tr. P. Mexia i. xvii. f. 46 The Sunne..possesseth as his Kingdome, the middle or fourth Spheare, called of auncient Astrologians, the fountaine of all Light, the eye of the Earth, Kinge of the Planetes. 1590 E. Spenser i. iii. sig. C2 Her angels face As the great eye of heauen shyned bright. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 5 The glorious sunne..Turning with splendor of his precious eye The meager cloddy earth to glittering gold. View more context for this quotation 1652 T. Manley tr. P. Fisher 70 A cloud obscures that eye of Night, The sun withdrawing his, she gives no light. 1738 J. Wesley (new ed.) cxlvii. 2 All ye sparkling Eyes of Night. 1765 T. Zouch 21 Soon the eye of day Darts his all-cheering radiance. 1820 W. Scott II. vi. 204 The eye of day hath opened its lids. 1880 W. Watson 61 Whereat the eyes of heaven wox thundrous-dim. 1931 Dec. 12/3 The bright eye of day barely dipped below the horizon, swinging in a great arc around the sky. 1971 J. Gardner vii. 91 Balance is everything, riding out time like a helmless sheep-boat, keel to hellward, mast upreared to prick out heaven's eye. 2008 D. Keck 267 The old Eye of Heaven had sunk low enough to slide through the west windows. the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > middle or centre 1534 tr. L. Valla sig. Dv He..shulde depriue himselfe of one of the .ii. eyes of the empier. 1572 W. Malim tr. N. Martinengo Ded. sig. Aiij The eyes of the Realme, Cambridge, and Oxforde. 1602 L. Lloyd ii. x. 195 Athens, the schoole of learning, and the eye of Greece. 1622 R. Harris 16 If goodnesse must be acknowledged there, must it not in England, the face of Europe; in London, the eye of England? 1671 J. Milton iv. 237 Athens the eye of Greece. View more context for this quotation 1730 V. 280/1 Ipswich, as it is called the Eye of this Shire, and was really the most eminent for Trade and Buildings. 1761 II. v. 55 England has two Eyes, Oxford and Cambridge. They are the two Eyes of England, the two intellectual Eyes. 1845 R. W. Hamilton vii. 165 Massachusetts..is the eye of the States. 1878 R. B. Smith 355 Corinth the eye of Greece. 1913 N. B. Allen 142 If St. Petersburg is the eye of Russia, Moscow is the heart. 1988 E. Hoagland Arabia Felix in (1992) 213 Aden became known as ‘the Eye of Yemen’, because it was the Yemenis' sole opening to the Western world. 2011 R. Heikell (ed. 11) 132/1 The Venetian fort guarded the shipping route around the Peloponnisos and Methóni, along with Koroni, was called ‘the eye of the Republic’. the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > [noun] > a projecting part 1600 P. Holland in tr. Livy xxi. 421 Mansalla, a citie in Sicilie, and a cape there, called the Eye of Sicily. a1650 G. Boate (1652) v. 48 There lie also severall Rocks neer the little Ilands of Dalkee and Irelands-Eye. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching I. 284 From its convenient situation it [sc. Gottland] has justly acquired the name of the Eye of the Baltic. 1837 IX. 165/2 Ireland's Eye, a rocky picturesque island of thirty acres. 1891 J. M. Dixon at Eye The eye of the Baltic—Gothland, or Gottland, an island in the Baltic. 1904 14 Sept. 5/1 A low rugged hill, nicknamed ‘Kuropatkin's eye’. 1959 W. Johnson in tr. A. Strindberg 239 Lake Siljan, one of the most attractive lakes in all Sweden, has been called ‘the eye of Dalarna’. 2010 W. S. Olsen 152 My eyes cannot pass Lake Manicouagan, in Quebec, a lake that looks like a circular river, narrow but round... The Eye of Quebec, it's been called. An easy landing. the world > the earth > water > spring > [noun] the world > the earth > water > fountain > [noun] 1535 Deut. xxxiii. E The eye of Iacob shalbe vpon ye londe where corne and wine is, heauen also shal droppe with dewe. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin cxcviii. 1233/1 The Hebrewes call Fountaines Eyes, because the springes of the water (if yee marke them) haue the shape of the eye in a mans body. 1609 I. Deut. xxxiii. 28 The eie of Jacob in the land of corne and wine. 1625 S. Purchas II. v. i. 894 Some Eyes of water haue beene seene that vnder ground goe into the Sea. 1703 tr. A. de Ovalle i. vii. 16/1 But 'tis impossible to paint all the Variety of Objects produced by these several Motions and Compositions of Streams and Fountains: I cannot leave them without mentioning one called the Eyes of Water. 1799 W. Somerville (1979) 43 In the Eye of the fountain a substance of metallic appearance is found resembling the ore of Lead. 1842 XXII. 290/2 The place where the river re-appears is called Los Ojos de Guadiana (the eyes of the Guadiana). 1857 D. Livingstone vi. 111 A hollow, which anciently must have been the eye of a fountain. 1883 J. Mackenzie 70 There are three separate wells or ‘eyes’ to this fountain. 1933 W. Macdonald 124 The few isolated habitations of the..Voortrekkers, each situated at the fountainheads, or ‘eyes’, of the numerous sparkling streams which flowed north and south from the Rand. 1985 J. Mitchell 135 Sheets of iron covered this fountain eye to prevent the cattle trampling the mud and closing the eye. 2003 Oct. 92/1 At high tide the off-shore caves expel fresh water, which bubbles at the surface. Local residents call these fountains ojos de agua, eyes of water. 13. society > occupation and work > equipment > building and constructing equipment > fastenings > [noun] > hook > loop of hook and eye 1548 in J. B. Paul (1911) IX. 215 Ȝallo bukram and reid to ryggyn my lord governoures pavileounnes, and..leddes to mak the eyeis thairof. 1611 R. Cotgrave Piton,..an Eye for a curtaine rod [etc.]. 1698 W. Derham in (Royal Soc.) 20 2 On the Top I left an Eye in the Wire. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger 130 Two Iron Eyes for the ends of the Axis to play in. 1785 W. Marshall Minutes in (1790) II. 80 I prepared a bottom thimble, with a clasp to take the hartree, and with an eye at each corner. 1832 D. Brewster x. 247 Having..made it [sc. the rope] pass through a fixed iron eye. 1880 W. C. Russell (1881) II. iv. 201 A couple of scuttlebutts lashed..to eyes in the bulwarks. 1926 Sept. 101/1 Slip the round rod through the eyes of the four pieces and fasten it with a cotter pin through each end. 1947 22 Sept. 138/2 The screw eyes..are inserted in all door posts and window frames and the tapes threaded through the eyes and knotted. 1987 R. Working 100 Steel rods planted in the beam stuck out another two feet over the river, and a cable was threaded through the eyes at the end. 2011 3 June (Viewspaper section) 7/3 It might be worth considering welding eyes to the corners of cars and clamping these to concrete hardstands. the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > parts of clothing > [noun] > fastenings > hook(s) and eye(s) > eye 1576 in J. Arnold (1988) 144/2 A Dublett Jerkenwise of russett satten cutt & drawne welted with white vellat lyned with white sarceonett with canvas hookes & eyes. 1587 in D. Yaxley (2003) 75 xxij claspes & eyes ijs. jd. 1599 J. Minsheu at Hevilla Hooks and eies of siluer. 1672 E. Ashmole vii. 211 The Collar was usually fixed, an Hook and eye of Gold; for the surer fastning it about the shoulders. 1763 H. S. J. Giral del Pino I Máchos y hémbras, hooks and eyes. 1841 Oct. 289/1 There are hooks and eyes placed at the edges of each breast..to close it. 1895 S. Klug xv. 49/1 Some seamstresses prefer to sew the hooks on one side and the eyes on the opposite edge. 1956 (ed. 4) 185/2 One side must be left open,..press fasteners or hooks and eyes being used to close it. 2003 July 6/3 It had..a pocket for a tape measure and scissors, another for hooks and eyes and snaps, [etc.]. the world > space > shape > curvature > roundness > [noun] > annular quality > ring > loop > of rope, chain, or cloth 1584 R. Scot xiii. xxix. 337 Put the eie of the one [cord] into the eie or bowt of the other. 1627 J. Smith v. 21 Slings are made of a rope spliced at either end into it selfe with one eye at either end, so long as to bee sufficient to receiue the caske. a1642 W. Monson (1704) iii. 345/2 An Eye or two, and a Wall-knot. 1769 W. Falconer sig. D3v Collet d'étai, the eye of a stay placed over a mast-head. 1797 Ld. Nelson in (1845) II. 324 Two pair of main-shrouds cut in the eyes. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 275 Elliot-eye..is an eye worked over an iron thimble in the end of a hempen bower-cable, to facilitate its being shackled to the chain for riding in very deep water. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 283 Flemish eye, particularly applied to the eye of a stay, which is either formed at the making of the rope; or by dividing the yarns into two equal parts, knotting each pair separately and pointing the whole over after parcelling. 1882 G. S. Nares (ed. 6) 9 The eyes of the rigging. 1900 34 433 The beckets in the Australian Museum..are of plaited cord, with an ‘eye’ at one end and an ‘overhand’ knot, or a ‘grummet head’, at the other. 1937 July 89/3 The lanyards or lashings rove through eyes seized in ends of rope. 1987 I. Dear & P. Kemp 134/2 Rattle down, to, secure the ratlines to the shrouds with a series of clove hitches round each shroud except the forewardmost and aftermost, where the ratline is seized to the shroud through an eye. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medical preparations of specific origin > biological product > [noun] > from crustaceans the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Crustacea > [noun] > subclass Malacostraca > division Thoracostraca > order Decapoda > member of > concretion in stomach 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig f. 37v Or els geue him the eyes of Crabbes made to pouder to drinke with wine. 1639 O. Wood 30 Take the eyes of Crabs, powder them, infuse them in Wine vinegar warme, some Parmacitty melt therein, take of this every morning fasting till you be well. 1661 R. Lovell 190 The eyes or stones [of the crab] coole, dry, cleanse, discusse, breake the stone. 1747 R. James iii. ii. 485/2 The Stones or Eyes are cooling, drying, abstergent and discutient;..they are also proper for cleansing the Teeth. 1753 J. Hanway I. xv. 98 These eyes [of crawfish] are sent into turkey..to be used in medicines. 1811 A. T. Thomson ii. 77 The concretions, called eyes, are found in the stomach, one on each side, before the fish casts its shell in July, at which time the inner coat of the stomach also is renewed. 1994 L. Brockliss in A. La Berge & M. Feingold ii. 96 These looked suspiciously similar to the bouillons which formed the normal diet, except that they were made from calves' feet, the eyes of crayfish, and a grander selection of herbs. †15. the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > condition or state of being mixed or blended > [noun] > admixture or addition as ingredient > that which is added as an ingredient > a small admixture of something 1567 in F. G. Emmison (1983) (modernized text) II. 161 12 lb. of sheep's wool with an eye of blue therein. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. i. 60 Ant. The ground indeed is tawny. Seb. With an eye of greene in't. View more context for this quotation a1642 J. Suckling Goblins iii. 25 in (1646) None of these Beards will serve, There's not an eye of white in them. a1661 T. Fuller (1662) Wales 13 This..name seemeth to have in it an Eye or Cast of Greek and Latine. 1677 R. Plot 279 A true blue dye, having an eye of red. 1699 J. Evelyn (ed. 9) 67 A natural Earth, with an Eye of Loam in it. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > [noun] > quality of precious stone 1699 A. Boyer at Oeil Perles qui ont un bel Oeil (ou une belle eau), Pearls that have a fine Eye or Water. 1736 N. Bailey et al. (ed. 2) Eye, the lustre and brilliant of pearls and precious stones, more usually call'd the water. 16. the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles 1568 (?a1518) W. Kennedy (2008) 4 In thy bag thow beir thyne Ene. 1663 J. Wright tr. H. Grotius in 108 You hardly with your pocket eyes do see: Lay them a side, and you stark blind will be. 1699 A. Boyer (at cited word) Eyes, (or Spectacles) Yeux, ou Lunettes. If I will read, I must take my Eyes, Si je veux lire, il faut que je prenne mes yeux. 1786 A. M. Bennett I. 62 I must put on my eyes..yes, I see I was mistaken. 1853 T. Shone 23 July (1992) 177 I left my eyes at Bathurst; I was obliged to go back. Mrs Nelson gave me my eyes and my stick. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > eye 1567 G. Fenton tr. M. Bandello f. 296v A visarne or false beard of blacke heare curled like the Mauretyne, with a paire of counterfaite eyes of glasse. 1630 M. Drayton vi. 61 A piece of Silke, wherein there lyes For the decay'd, false Breasts, false Teeth, false Eyes.] 1750 tr. C. N. Le Cat 219 The Bottom of this Eye was extended on a transparent Paper perfectly plain. 1819 XVI. 601/1 When the legs and head are stuffed, the cavity of the skull filled with very dry moss, and the eyes fixed, wires are to be passed through the inside of the body. 1860 21 Apr. 35 A laborious class Who earn painful bread by fashioning dolls' eyes. 1896 Mar. 8/1 The processes used in manufacturing eyes for stuffed animals are far more simple than those employed in the manufacture of artificial human eyes. 1908 C. K. Reed & C. A. Reed (new ed.) ii. 65 The eyes that you want for a jay are No. 6 brown. 1965 W. H. Billman 54 In the midst of one burst of applause Joey's eye fell out. 2010 (Nexis) 27 July c5 When she sold her first pair of eyes and received positive feedback from the buyer she knew she had a product other crafters wanted. 17. 1611 R. Peake tr. S. Serlio f. 34v When the Capitall of this Ionica is made, you must make the Volutes, which shall bee made by the line..: and when you leaue the Abacus vnderneath foure parts, then the first part shall be for the eye. 1664 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart i. xxiv. 58 Where the Cymatium encounters the List of the Scroul make a perpendicular line so as it may pass through the very Center of the Eye of this Voluta. 1728 E. Chambers Eye of the Volute, in Architecture, is the Centre of the Volute, or that Point wherein the Helix, or Spiral, whereof it is form'd, commences. 1774 T. Skaife xxxviii. 172 The..last consideration is the falling of the twist from the streight rail to the eye of the scroll, which must be done in such a manner that it shall appear with ease and beauty. 1842 J. Gwilt Gloss. 971 Eye, a general term signifying the centre of any part: thus the eye of a pediment is a circular window in its centre. The eye of a dome is the horizontal aperture on its summit. The eye of a volute is the circle at the centre, from whose circumference the spiral line commences. a1878 G. G. Scott (1879) II. 262 The dome [of the Baptistery at Florence] had formerly an eye, like the Pantheon, but now has a lantern turret. 1919 H. L. Warren v. 344 The eye of the volute, which is sunk, probably contained a bronze boss. 2001 G. J. Champoux tr. J. Borella vi. 112 This dome is often pierced with an opening, the ‘eye of the dome’, which represents a veritable celestial doorway through which the ray of Divine Grace descends. 1755 Jan. 32/1 Volute, is that twist of spirals which winds round the axis or columella, diminishing by degrees, and ending in a point called the eye. 1755 Jan. 34/1 The eye [of the shell] is perfectly white, and shaped like a nipple. 18. society > communication > printing > types, blocks, or plates > relating to type > [noun] > parts of type 1611 R. Cotgrave Matrice, a..letter-founders, Matrice; the mould or forme for the eyes of their markes, or letters. 1730 N. Bailey et al. Eye, (with Printers) is sometimes used for the thickness of the types or characters used in Printing; or more strictly the graving in relievo on the top or face of letter. 1766 Mar. 180 The new oils..adhere so firmly to the types, that it is not easily dissolved by the alkaline ley, and consequently the eye of the letter is soon clogged up. 1676 J. Moxon 22 In the Parallel of 23 draw a line for the Eye, from the inside of e to the outside on the right hand. 1877 E. V. Kenealy III. 91/2 The letter ‘e’ is like the letter ‘i’, and it is his habit in writing to close the eye of the letter ‘e’. 1900 19 May 6/3 Handwriting... Don't break your words on any account. Make the eye of the letter e larger. 2002 B. Dekeyzer in B. Cardon et al. I. 454 In a book of hours conserved in Vienna, the representation is in the eye of the letter D. society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > [noun] 1924 J. McKechnie viii. 111 In advertising, the line at the top is called the ‘eye’ of an advertisement. 19. 1727 P. Shaw & E. Chambers tr. H. Boerhaave 63 A quantity of very pure gold being placed in the eye of a glass-furnace, wherein was a very great flame. 1802 Feb. 113 We know nothing that resembles the sun more than an Argand's lamp, or the eye of a blast-furnace. 1902 June 734 It glowed like the eye of a furnace. 1920 1 A glasshouse furnace... The eye may be tapered so that its diameter at the siege is smaller than at the bottom. 1983 Dec. 155 He smelled like ash in the blast furnace's eye. 1884 W. H. Greenwood vii. 126 A small slide containing a glass or mica plate, through which the state of the furnace may be observed; the bright spot thus seen is known as the ‘eye of the furnace’. 1904 G. F. Goodchild & C. F. Tweney 213/2 Eye of a furnace, the bright red spot in the hearth of a blast furnace seen through the nose of a tuyère by means of a mica-faced sight hole. 1758 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa II. ii. iii. 213 The cloud..begins, according to the sailors phrase, to open its eye, i.e. the cloud breaks, and the part of the horizon where it was formed becomes clear. 1852 F. P. B. Martin i. 13 These two Steamers must have been nearly midway in the central Storm's-eye on the 28th. 1867 F. Francis v. 144 The eye of the stream..is always the most favourable spot for fish. By the eye I mean the first good eddy on the inside of any stream after it commences its shoot. 1961 17 June 20/3 The king who looks into the whirlpool's eye. 1989 C. Martin & G. Parker (1999) iii. xii. 219 The true sequence of events was revealed in 1968 when the wreck of the Santa Maria was located in deep water at the eye of the tide race. 2010 P. O'Brien 14 The plane loses altitude and is tossed about before it reaches the calmness of the eye. society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > parts of vessels > body of vessel > fore part of vessel > [noun] > foremost part of vessel 1780 (rev. ed.) II. 239/2 Eyes of a ship, parties du vaisseau qui sont voisines des écubiers. 1836 J. F. Cooper II. vii. 108 Paul..seated himself directly in the eyes of the boat, with a leg hanging down on each side of the cutwater. 1840 F. Marryat xxii. 156 Being right in the eyes of her..we could [etc.]. 1878 D. Kemp 343 Eyes of her, the extreme fore end of the ship near the hawse pipes, which are the ‘eyes of her’. 1890 W. C. Russell II. xix. 134 Sleeping as he did, right in the ‘eyes’, he got the very full of the motion. 1908 29 Apr. 4/1 There was also a man in the look-out—at what was called the eyes of the ship. 1919 14 June 4/3 Now, this striper takes me up in the eyes and shows me a little gadget, where all you had to do was press a doohickey, turn over a gimick, and blooey—it would sink every tin fish within a mile. 1969 F. Mowat (1976) xi. 123 Hanging in the eyes of the ship, like a modern version of a baronial coat-of-mail, was Jack's steel and elastic corset. 2001 R. Gambee ii. 34/2 The catboat..is purely an American design, with its mast far forward in the ‘eyes’ of the boat. 22. society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > competitive shooting > archery > [noun] > archery target > parts of 1818 Mar. 237/1 No arrow was accounted a shot, but that which dislodged the eye from the target. 1839 J. H. Ingraham I. i. i. 26 The shaft, loosened from the string, cut the air and buried itself in the very centre of the golden eye of the target. 1875 E. H. Knight II. 819/1 Eye,..8. The center of a target. A bull's-eye. 1954 69 786 ‘The arrow of the word is launched, the sharp winged arrow of the word that whirs through the air’ and pierces the eye of the target. 2009 H. Mantel iii. ii. 253 Using his height, the beautiful trained muscles of his arms, shoulders and chest, he sends his arrows snapping straight to the eye of the target. b. 1839 H. T. De la Beche 561 The ores thus left in various places are often termed the eyes of the mine; and when it may be necessary, in abandoning the mine,..to remove them, it is termed, picking out the eyes of the mine. 1854 3 254 In the latter stage of the old workings little more appears to have been done than picking the eyes out of the mine. 1855 J. R. Leifchild 148 By thus picking out the eyes, and sending them to market, a fictitious value is sometimes imparted to shares. 1870 Mar. 290/1 We ‘pick out the eyes of our mines’, to use a Cornish expression, at the close of every shipping season. 1939 15 26/1 A prospector who finds a small deposit will develop and exploit it as rapidly as possible to obtain a grubstake... He appears to give the most frequent example of..what the American engineers more expressively term ‘gutting’ or ‘picking the eyes out’ of a deposit. 1997 No. 25. 152 By granting long term concessions to large companies, the mining policy of the Congo ensured that the deposits would not be wasted by the short term practice of high-grading or ‘picking the eyes of the mine’. 1865 13 June Sections were taken up and the ‘eye picked from the area’. 1865 23 June The great prizes—the allotments which were the eyes of the runs. 1891 R. Wallace i. 24 The original settlers..had in colonial phraseology ‘picked the eyes out of the country’ in making their selection. 1945 S. J. Baker iii. 56 The word eye became the epitome of all that was choice in land. 1975 X. Herbert 786 The general idea is they'll pick the eyes out of the land, and that you're helpin' 'em. 2005 R. Siemon iii. 48 This usually brought instant taunts about his being a member of the squattocracy whose family picked the eyes out of the country. the world > space > relative position > central condition or position > [noun] > a central mass or point 1864 5 371 The net being drawn through a ‘scull’ or shoal of the fish, breaks what is called the eye of the fish. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher 284 Eyght, the thickest part of a scule of herrings; when this is scattered by the fishermen, it is termed ‘breaking the ey’. 1882 21 July 8/6 Into a creek in the bay of Brevig..there came an ‘eye’ or shoal of saithe fish so great as to afford simply miraculous hauls. 1907 N. Munro xxi. 178 Two skiffs combine to run a net round the shoal or ‘eye’ of fish. the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > pork > [noun] > bacon > cuts or parts 1904 Ann. Rep. Live Stock Assoc. Ont. 94 in (1905) II The carcass showed an exceptionally large ‘eye’ of lean meat. 1951 S. Bull vii. 77 The eye is more tender than the remainder of the bottom round and may be fried. 1959 30 Mar. 10/7 The eye of lean on the all important..back rasher was good in both breeds. 1966 22 July 10 The noisettes of lamb are..the small circular eye of meat in the cutlet. 1995 Mar. 152/1 For this recipe, the rack of lamb is frenched all the way down to the eye of the meat. 2006 1 May 47/3 This was the meat encased by the first four ribs, the ‘eye’ of the chops. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical instruments > [noun] 1858 2 462 In other words, is the photographic eye more sensitive than the living eye? 1899 17 Jan. 5/2 Various experiments are being carried out in order to provide these vessels with ‘eyes’, and notably with an apparatus known as the periscope. 1933 Sept. 11/3 Batteries of the television eyes are likely to take their places alongside the microphones of radio announcers at sports events. 1955 15 Oct. 243/1 Humans are still needed to direct the plane until the 15-mile limit, when its radar ‘eyes’ spot the attacking bomber. 1974 H. Harrison 91 The viewscreen, using the robot's eyes as pickups, was filled with the angry face of the newcomer. 2002 7 July 32/1 His main project..was a robot eye attached to the Internet, which visitors from afar could control. It was one of the first-ever Webcams. 1859 T. J. Gullick & J. Timbs 201 ‘Eyes’, as the abrupt terminations of the longitudinal division of folds are named. 1904 G. W. Rhead ii. 9 (caption) Showing arrangement of the planes round the eyes of the drapery. 1940 B. Putnam x. 254 Try pinning up a cloth in various ways, and sketching the various folds, accentuating the ‘eyes’ as most of the old masters did in their studies of drapery. Phrases P1. Prepositional phrases. 1548 W. Patten sig. H.j Our Captains that wear behinde, perceyuinge at eye that..they were not able to ony aduauntage to mainteine this onset. a1605 (c1471) (1838) 38 It appered to every mann at eye the sayde partie was extincte. a1682 Sir T. Browne (1690) 5 A weak Physiognomist might say at first eye, This was a Face of Earth. 1832 24 Oct. I gained the interior of a cabin. I at first eye was below the level of its surface. 1986 6 Jan. 113/4 (advt.) It was love at first eye, but no overtures were made because we were otherwise engaged. c. the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > in abundance [phrase] > freely or copiously a1500 (?a1400) (Cambr.) (1930) l. 477 (MED) This cuppe hit hat Lonycoll..Fill it be þe ee, i þe pray. ?1521 sig. B.ivv Unreasonably to drynke wyne and ale With hey howe fyll the pot by the eye And this is called euery good company. c1592 C. Marlowe iii. iv Thou shalt have broth by the eye. 1613 F. Beaumont ii. sig. D2 Here's mony and gold bi'th eie my boy. d. Phrases with in. (a) OE (Northumbrian) xxi. 42 A domino factum est istud et est mirabile in oculis nostris : from drihtnen was ðis & is wundurlic in egum usum [OE Rushw. in egum urum, OE Corpus Cambr. on urum eagum]. OE Wærferð tr. Gregory (Corpus Cambr.) (1900) i. v. 47 Þonne hi [sc. þa eadmodan] geseoð hi sylfe yfellice on þara manna eagum, hi þæs þonne gefeoð, forþon þe hi witon, þæt hi wile God geseon, þeah hi men forseon. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich xviii. l. 71 The stones weren so preciowse to his eye. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) Prol. 3 The psalmes..kyndils thaire willes..makand thaim..faire and lufly in cristi eghen. 1547 J. Harrison Pref. sig. a.ijv A Ciuill warre..: a thyng..pernicious to the parties, and no lesse straunge in the iyes of reasonable men. 1597 W. Shakespeare iii. vii. 112 Some offence, That seemes disgracious in the Citties eies. View more context for this quotation 1645 E. Udall Serm. 37 in J. Shute To his sad disconsolate wife, mourning too too much, in his eye [etc.]. 1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival ii. i. xviii. 206 The King..became more considerable in the eyes of the World, then any of his predecessors. 1766 O. Goldsmith II. ix. 128 No other marriage of his shall ever be legal in my eye. 1882 W. Ballantine xix. 185 He was a man of mark in the eyes of my family. 1901 Feb. 212 This patricide policy will appear unpardonable in the eyes of future generations. 1944 J. Mockford 93 In the eyes of Paul Kruger..these gold grabbers were uitlanders, outlanders, foreigners. 2007 28 Feb. 17/1 The North Face of the Eiger ranks alongside Mt Everest as one of the two big ticks in mountaineering, at least in the eyes of the public. ?1538 sig. Giv An action of det, an action of accompte of couenaunt or of trespace: these and suche lyke be in the eye of the lawe manumissions. 1628 E. Coke f. 58 Court baron..in the eye of Law it hath relation to the Freeholders, who are Judges of the Court. 1761 D. Hume II. xxxvi. 286 Persons not lying under..attainder were innocent in the eye of the law. 1814 S. T. Coleridge II. 635 Jack, Tom, and Harry have no existence in the eye of the law, except as included in some form or other of the permanent property of the realm. 1869 E. A. Freeman III. xiii. 281 In the eye either of logic or of sound morals, his fabric was but as a house of cards. 1907 21 Mar. 8/2 He is paranoic, and while insane, he is not insane in the eyes of the law, for, strictly speaking, he knows the nature and quality of his acts. 1958 R. K. Narayan x. 199 He had absolved many a public swindler in the public eye and in the eye of the law. 1995 Jan. 23/1 Women will never be equal to men in the eyes of the law until and unless women possess the right to become unpregnant. 1630 Bp. J. Hall xxxviii. 94 Outward beauty is more in the eye of the beholder, then in the face that is seene. 1652 W. Jenkyn vi. 508 Outward evils are but appearing, and opinionative, and all their deformity is in the eye of the beholder. 1733 P. Shaw tr. F. Bacon Disc. War with Spain in II. 187 The old Observation is true, that the Spaniards Valour lies in the Eye of the Looker on; but the English Valour lies about the Soldier's Heart. 1774 O. Goldsmith II. 265 Beauty seems a very uncertain charm; and frequently is less in the object, than in the eye of the beholder. 1847 C. Brontë II. ii. 45 Most true is it that ‘beauty is in the eye of the gazer’. 1883 25 Jan. 37/2 The editor explained to him that as beauty lies in the eye of the beholder, so does praise in the recipient's ear. 1917 Apr. 151 I know too well the old retort that modesty and indecency are all in the eye of the beholder. 1989 (Nexis) 21 Aug. 44 Value, as any metaphysicist knows, is in the eye of the beholder. 2012 (Nexis) 30 Dec. 7 Many people like the look of wind turbines—beauty is in the eye of the beholder. the mind > mental capacity > thought > continued thinking, reflection, contemplation > thinking about, consideration, deliberation > [adverb] > under consideration ?1567 257 More happie is he, whose nature, grace hath reformed, to haue God alone alwaies in his eye. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy vi. 228 How could they chuse, but have still in their eie the armie of the Gaules, clambring up the Cliffe Tarpeia? c1680 W. Beveridge (1729) I. 411 He must always have it in his eye. 1713 G. Berkeley in 14 May 1/1 The Sages whom I have in my Eye speak of Virtue as the most amiable thing in the World. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti II. 55 b Some had nothing in their eye, but adorning that which was to contain the body. 1791 ‘G. Gambado’ To Rdr. p. iv Having the safety of man's neck in my eye. 1598 F. Meres f. 200 Those kingdoms & cities which the diuell shewed to our Sauiour Christ vpon the mountaine, were not true riches, but fantasticall and sightly in the eye. a1622 J. Randall (1631) ix. 142 The Church was distinguished in it selfe in many respects, the last whereof was this, in regard of the outward state of it in the eye and appearance to the World. 1684 R. Howlett 117 Mark out the Head of your Pond, and make it the highest part of the Ground in the eye, tho' it be the lowest in the true Level. 1685 M. Bryan 17 The Judge..is to proceed secundum allegata & probata, according to the Evidence, whether true or false, for he sees through the eyes of others: and so every one may not have Justice done him. 1794 T. Packer 21 Perhaps you intended this letter for your numerous followers only: it may suit those who have no eyes of their own, but must see through the eye of their leader. 1841 C. E. Lester I. 209 In every instance the proprietors and overlookers, who led me round, wished me to look at every thing through their eyes. 1870 O. Logan (title page) Exhibiting the ‘show world’ as seen from within, through the eyes of the former actress, as well as from without, through the eyes of the present lecturer and author. 1899 26 Oct. 7/1 Looking..at the old Homeland through the eyes of Young Australia. 1916 Apr. 283/2 The ‘Spoon River Anthology’..portrays the life of a country town as seen through the eyes of a criminal lawyer. 1971 16 Feb. 10/1 ‘Groovin’, a film depicting the dangers and motivations of ‘pot’ smoking as examined through the eyes of 14-18 year olds. 2003 A. Notaro vii. 70 The idea was to try and see the world through their eyes and look at the pluses and minuses of being a gay man in Ireland in the new millennium. ?1596 J. Dickenson sig. A4 A Snake slilie creeping into the foolish birds late forsaken nest deuoured the sillie yonglings not garded as before with the warie Mothers watchfull eie.] 1641 J. Milton 36 He..hath yet ever had this Iland under the speciall indulgent eye of his providence. 1668 P. Rycaut (new ed.) i. xv. 68 The inhabited Cities..are immediately under the eye of a vigilant Commander. 1729 T. Prior 55 We have discover'd a long Scene of Running of Brandy, even in our Metropolis, where Officers abound, and are under the immediate Eye of the Commissioners. 1782 Jan. 45/1 So shall our babes in safety dwell Beneath thy watchful eye. 1824 T. Medwin (1832) I. 53 I had..fallen under the eye of the Government. 1886 8 Feb. 7/4 His vigilance unmasked what..turned out to be slavery in all respects carried on under the very eyes of the British authorities. 1906 U. Sinclair v. 67 You might easily pick out these pace-makers, for they worked under the eyes of the bosses, and they worked like men possessed. 1953 D. Whipple xxv. 219 There was only that glance at her mother to see if she would pass muster under the eyes of the Weston girls and the Mowbrays. 2006 N. Plakcy & S. Sakson 55 I grew up under the watchful eye of a sweet Kerry Blue Terrier. g. up to the (also one's) eyes. the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase] > in some pursuit > deeply the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > greatly or very much [phrase] > utter > utterly 1607 R. West sig. F3 Vp to the very eyes in durt and mire, Bridewell hath often paid you for your hire. 1761 tr. Voltaire 83 She was up to the eyes in love; and that's what has made her fortune. 1809 J. W. Croker in L. J. Jennings 12 Oct. (1884) I I am..up to my eyes in business, the extent of which is quite terrific. 1859 J. Kavanagh (1860) 309 The scrivener gravely asked for her mother, and found the good lady up to her eyes in soap-water. 1916 V. Bell (1993) 195 Clive doesn't write at all, only a line to say he's up to his eyes in politics. 1998 J. White p. xii You read in the papers about how much we're pulling down and you think we're buried in cash, up to our eyes in wallop. 2006 I. Rankin xvii. 249 ‘Profits made’, Rebus added, ‘from selling to dodgy dictators and spit-poor nations already up to their eyes in debt.’ 1672 J. Eachard Let. 22 in To eat Custards with spoons was abominably scandalous, but to be engag'd in Sack-possett up to the eyes, with Ladles, was Christian, Orthodox, and Brotherly. 1786 E. Sheridan 2 July (1960) 91 Miss or Mrs McCartney who was sitting with her poor palsied head dress'd with flowers and painted up to the eyes. 1848 E. Ruskin Let. in W. James (1948) v. 114 Lady Morgan who is..painted up to the eyes. 1866 A. Trollope (1867) I. viii. 97 All the Burtons are full up to their eyes with good sense. 1883 C. Reade in July 206/2 A neighbour's estate, mortgaged up to the eyes, was sold under the hammer. 1885 A. Dobson 4 The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes. 1949 A. Wilson 89 Daisy's up to her eyes at the minute trying to jog the local party into action. 1966 G. Ryga 109 On Saturday night you can still hear him coming down the road from town, beered up to the eyes. 1993 R. Murphy i. 14/1 Worby took a job as a lorry driver and at a transport café met the road girls, ‘painted up to the eyes’. h. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [adverb] > staring or gazing 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine f. cclxxviv/1 The good man receyued it [sc. a relic of St Augustine]..in grete reuerence, and honoured hit euery day deuoutely, and touched with all his eyen. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Matt. Pref. f. iijv Ought with all the iyen in their heades to watche. 1675 V. Alsop iii. 203 Take the Book and read with all the Eyes you have, and can borrow, and there you shall find the clear contrary. 1694 L. Echard tr. Plautus Rudens ii. ii, in tr. Plautus 165 I've been searching with all the Eyes i'my Head, to find out my Master. 1769 H. Brooke IV. xvii. 218 Homely gazed with all his eyes, and stood mute through astonishment. 1798 R. M. Roche I. ii. 25 She stared at him with all the eyes in her head, which perhaps drove him away. 1860 W. H. Russell II. xiii I looked with all my eyes, but they failed to detect any difference. 1898 Sept. 290 The engineer, who was watching the advent of the storm with all his eyes. 1925 M. Leary 63 He set there all alone, where he could look at Miss Langdon with all his eyes. 1995 W. H. Turner (1997) 227 I looked with all my eyes and I had my gun with me, and I shot right where I heard the noise and it shut right up. 1596 ‘L. Pyott’ tr. A. Sylvain 205 Behold the one or the other [of the children] with the eie of a mother in law. 1694 tr. G. P. Marana VI. iii. viii. 214 I advise thee to read it with the Eyes of a Stoick; That is, whether it pleases thee or not, regard it not farther than it agrees with Reason. 1742 A. Pope 526 Self-conceit to some her Glass applies, Which no one looks in with another's eyes. 1819 Ld. Byron lxviii. 37 I can't tell whether Julia saw the affair With other people's eyes, or if her own Discoveries made. 1907 Feb. 302 The ability to put himself in another's place, to look at things with another's eyes. 1973 G. M. Brown vii. 139 If..we could look with the eye of an angel on the whole history of men..it would have the brevity and beauty of this dance at the altar. 2007 (Univ. Texas) Mar.–Apr. 19/1 I..try to see it with the eyes of a first-time visitor or freshman. P2. Phrases with verbs. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iv. i. 59 No tongue: all eyes: be silent. View more context for this quotation 1640 R. West in E. Chilmead tr. J. Ferrand sig. b8 Cupid is now turn'd Man; and is all eyes; Tis only hard to Love, and not be Wise. 1662 R. Codrington tr. G. Ruggle ii. v. sig. G4v Tri. We will fright him hence; Be you but vigilant and lie close, and we shall doe well enough. Ant. I will be all eyes my Trico. 1762 W. Harris 422 Cromwell was all eyes. He saw every thing, he judged of every thing. 1800 A. Plumptre tr. A. von Kotzebue 23 The curtain drew up: I was all eyes, all ears. Not a word, a look, or an attitude, escaped me. 1906 21 Jan. (Comic section) 1 Nemo was all eyes and no ears and the result was a delightful excursion into the grandest region ever dreamed of. 2002 J. McGahern (2003) 173 When Patrick Ryan drew up in an expensive car that dropped him at the church gate he was all eyes. 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus I. Luke xxiv. f. ccv They did neither perfectly beleue theyr owne iyes, nor theyr eares, nor theyr handes. 1627 G. Hakewill iii. i. 155 Those which had seene him & knowne him before, could then scarce beleiue their owne eyes. 1764 T. Mortimer I. vi. 482/1 Wallace, who narrowly watched all the motions of the English, could hardly believe his eyes when he saw them preparing to cross the river. 1807 C. Lamb I. 200 Lear at first could not believe his eyes or ears, nor that it was his daughter who spoke so unkindly. 1877 24 Nov. 441/3 I could scarcely believe my eyes, as I saw him galloping over the hill out of sight. 1922 L. F. Perkins 101 Jean was so astonished that for an instant she could not believe her own eyes. 2006 J. B. Quinn vii. 170 Believe your own eyes. The research on index funds is right. c. to catch the (also a person's) eye. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > be visible [verb (intransitive)] > be clearly visible > be conspicuous 1585 Abp. E. Sandys To Rdr. sig. ¶3 Words spoken are soone come soone gon but written withall,..by striking aswell the eye of the reader..may perse his heart the better. 1608 B. Jonson Masque of Blacknesse in sig. A4v Which decorum made it more conspicuous, and caught the eye a far of with a wandring beauty. 1634 Bp. J. Hall (STC 12640.7) 209 Deformities and infirmities of body do more easily both draw and fix the eye then an ordinary symmetry of parts. 1715 J. Richardson 62 The Death of Ananias..immediately takes the Eye. 1716 A. Pope Epist. Jervas in J. Dryden tr. C. A. du Fresnoy (ed. 2) sig. A7 Thy well-study'd Marbles fix our Eye. 1754 D. Hume I. 136 On the revival of letters..this false glister catches the eye, and leaves no room..for the durable beauties of solid sense and lively passion. 1820 J. Lingard IV. iii. 171 Their [sc. the king's agents] success..was emblazoned to catch the eye of the public. 1883 Aug. 629/1 Ah graceful sky-swung hawks that took The eye with beauty's curve in air. 1961 P. G. Wodehouse 41 Dolly Molloy unquestionably took the eye. 1988 B. Orser i. 28 Although I missed the podium, I did catch the eye of the Canadian Figure Skating Association. 1992 9 Oct. 11/4 Kings Fountain, a tall, good-looking sort, took the eye in the paddock with his well-being. 1748 W. Whitehead Youth & Philosopher in R. Dodsley II. 254 The charioteer drew nigh, And, flush'd with hope, had caught his eye. 1813 J. Austen I. iii. 21 He looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, [etc.]. 1866 A. Trollope I. v. 106 Clara caught her cousin's eye and smiled. 1883 ‘G. Lloyd’ I. 11 Here he caught Pauline's eye and stopped. 1936 G. Greene i. 15 ‘Oh yes,’ she said, catching the eye of a dago in a purple suit through the pane. 2006 N. S. Dhaliwal v. 76 Afterwards he'd idle in the steam room, or in the jacuzzi, watching the men, hoping to catch the eye of a chubby-chasing hunk. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. xiii. 159 Would you mingle eyes With one that tyes his points. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. ii. 444 At the first sight They haue chang'd eyes . View more context for this quotation 1651 W. Davenant vii. 207 She thinks that Babes proceed from mingling Eies. 1896 F. S. Boas x. 203 Romeo has but to change eyes with Juliet, and his love in idleness for Rosaline is annihilated, only to give place to a far more absorbing passion. the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > be wakeful or sleepless 1580 A. Munday ii. 95 I could not lay mine eyes together for the ioy I conceyued. 1608 R. Tofte tr. L. Ariosto i. 5 His Page that dares not close an eie, Vntill the Bergamiskes industriously, Beat on their anuils. 1633 T. James 36 Not one of them put his eyes together all the night long. 1639 R. Davenport iii. i. sig. Ev Frier Bernard's fast, he snores and sleepes as Snug as any Pigge in Pease-straw; but my selfe Cannot once close an eye. 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé I. 110 He was so intent upon this new growing love, that he had not closed an eye all the night. 1707 J. Stevens tr. F. de Quevedo 405 He could not lay his Eyes together. 1750 I. iv. 52 I could scarce lay my Eyes together for thinking of their unhappy Fate. 1751 T. Smollett I. xx. 149 All night long he closed not an eye, but amused himself with plans of pleasure. 1814 D. H. O'Brien 132 I never closed an eye. The night at length elapsed. 1886 L. Morris iv. ii. 145 I have not closed an eye for the last two nights. 1904 R. Leighton iv. 43 Go thou, then, back to bed; yet close not an eye or an ear, but attend to all they say. 1954 M. Chase 27 My old lady never closes an eye till I get in. 1990 B. Joyce 157 I did not close an eye, nor did I take one step from my post. This I swear, and if I speak false, let God smite me as I stand. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] > copiously a1450 (?c1421) J. Lydgate (Arun.) (1911) l. 1002 (MED) His eyen out he wepe. 1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius i. ii. f. 2v With face and visage bloubered with teares, in suche sorte that she hath welny wept out both her eies. 1655 T. Fuller i. 36 So blubber'd with Teares, that she may seem almost to have wept her Eyes out. 1696 tr. J. Dumont xv. 189 He'll e'en let 'em cry their Eyes out, without deigning to take notice of 'em. 1738 J. Swift 27 I can't help it, if I would cry my Eyes out. 1808 G. Colman 17 Poor little heart! she'll cry her sweet pretty eyes out. 1891 T. Hardy II. xxi. 4 The poor maid—or young woman rather—standing at the door crying her eyes out. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ 1 Nov. (1993) III. 63 A wooden tray holding a manuscript..which is all spattered over with drops of rain & looks as though some sad mortal had cried his pretty eyes out over it. 1964 M. Stewart (1965) i. 12 I saw it at Stratford, the last performance, and cried my eyes out over the ‘this rough magic I here abjure’ bit. 2005 Apr. 73/1 I was once at a funeral, sobbing my eyes out, when some muppet approached me. 1803 22 Oct. 211/2 The girls kept cutting their eyes at me—that was'nt more than I expected—I liked that—but whispering I do detest. 1827 L. Dow (1850) 177/2 Went to New York, took steamboat to New Brunswick thence stage No. 7, strangers crossed words and cut eyes. 1837 3 233 ‘Why, we thought about here’ said he ‘that you were cutting your eye at Miss Gatty.’ 1885 ‘C. E. Craddock’ xv. 288 Ter see him cut his blazin' eye aroun' at ye, ye'd low ez he'd never hearn o' grace. 1938 M. K. Rawlings xi. 102 Look at him cut his eyes. 1961 F. G. Cassidy vii. 137 A cut-eye is the action of ‘cutting’ the eye at someone by way of insult—that is, catching the person's eye, then deliberately turning one's own away. 2006 P. Williams-Forson i. v. 148 I have been witness to black women in church kitchens cutting their eyes at one another or arguing about whether or not a dish should be cooked a certain way. 2007 A. Theroux xlvii. 786 She cut her eyes at Jeff coldly now, making the narrow slits watchful. the mind > emotion > humility > humiliation > humiliate [verb (transitive)] the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > defrauding or swindling > perpetrate (a swindle) [verb (transitive)] > defraud or swindle 1891 J. M. Dixon 92 The jockey did your friend in the eye over that horse. 1908 20 May 367/1 Done in the eye again. What on earth do you expect? 1922 F. M. Ford 12 Feb. (1965) 138 I have just caught a publisher out, doing me in the eye flagrantly over concealed profits. 1941 G. de Poncins & L. Galantière (1942) ii. i. 128 It was only after they got back to the igloo, that, each time, Utak saw he had once again been done in the eye by his wife. 1985 E. Wright i. 54 I just like to do Maud in the eye sometimes, Charlie. i. a1475 J. Russell Bk. Nurture (Harl. 4011) in (2002) i. 151 Looke ye bere good yȝes Vppon oþur connynge kervers. 1564 H. Middlemore tr. sig. Dvijv There were good eye geuen, that ther came nere him, no contempnor of God. 1587 J. Hooker tr. Giraldus Cambrensis Vaticinall Hist. Conquest Ireland i. xli. 26/2 in (new ed.) II Maurice Fitzgerald..gaue good eie and watched the matter verie narowlie. 1543 J. Bale sig. Giijv Thys coude not my lorde reprehende had he not an eye geuen to wyckednesse. 1614 W. Raleigh iv. iv. §6. 249 Eumenes was so ouer-laboured both in bodie and minde, that he could not giue an eye to euery place. 1775 F. Spilsbury (ed. 3) viii. 163 All meats and drinks are but relatively good or bad with respect to circumstances, which are best determined by giving an eye to the temperaments and the causes of the diseases which afflict our patients. 1790 W. Marshall I. 367 The only attention bestowed upon this class of stock being, to give an eye to the fences, the pasture, and the water. 1849 J. F. Cooper II. i. 6 You can continue to work the saw and the axes, but I will give an eye to strengthening the craft in-board. 1891 T. Hardy I. xi. 137 Now, you sit there. That will keep away the damp. Just give an eye to the horse—it will be quite sufficient. 1922 Sept. 26/1 He overhauled his ship for himself, from keelson to truck, and gave an eye to all his crew. 1960 G. W. Target (1962) 48 She was a good sort, always willing to give a hand's turn. ‘I'll give an eye to her—she'll be all right.’ 1987 E. Newby (1988) v. 70 ‘I will give an eye to the holiday houses,’ he said. 1609 W. Shakespeare i. ii. 236 I warrant Hellen to change would giue an eye to boote. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. D. iv. i. sig. E2v I'de give one eye to see her with the other. 1691 tr. G. P. Marana III. ii. ii. 144 Our beloved Eunuch, can still converse with his Friends; which is a Privilege, the Deaf would almost give their Eyes to enjoy. 1705 C. Cibber iii. 24 I know you'd give your Eyes to make me Uneasie now. 1804 M. Edgeworth Manufacturers iii, in II. 348 I am sure she is really and truly sorry; and would give her eyes to get me out of this scrape. 1857 A. Trollope II. xiv. 273 Bertie would give his eyes to go with you. 1875 L. Troubridge Jrnl. in (1966) 120 I gave up directly with a very good grace, considering that I would have given my eyes to go. 1918 W. Faulkner Let. 19 Sept. in (1992) 105 I'd give my right eye for some scrambled eggs and toast and Kraft cheese and jelly and fried chicken and peaches. 1957 R. Matthews tr. J.-J. Servan-Schreiber i. ii. 64 The bastards, I'd have given my eyes to be there! 2008 R. Benway xxvi. 229 There are twenty thousand girls who would give their left eye to be you right now. (d) to give (a person) the eye. 1901 Jan. 99/1 If People did not Buy in a Hurry he would slam the Boxes around and be Lippy and give them the Eye. 1949 A. I. Bezzerides xi. 108 He removed his cigar and spat down once, holding his eyes steadily on him. ‘Get him giving me the eye,’ the trucker said. ‘Go ahead, burn a hole in me.’ 1977 (Nexis) 28 Dec. b1 Say you walk into a delicatessen in New York and the counterman gives you the eye. Maybe you look too scruffy for the neighborhood. 2011 D. Precious 47 But Mom gave me the eye like she was at the end of her rope. We were taking the truck. 1915 8 Aug. (Mag. section) 3/3 A fat whisky salesman breezed in from the bar.., and gave her the eye. You couldn't really blame him. 1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe ii. 19 I could see myself..strutting down the main drag blowing my sax while the chicks lined up along the curb, giving me the eye all the way. 1990 Feb. 75/1 If I really fancied someone, I'd give him the eye, but I'd be subtle about it. 2005 P. Robinson (2006) 2 A couple of kids who didn't look old enough to drive stood smoking and playing the machines, giving her the eye as she walked past, staring at her breasts. j. the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > discernment, discrimination > discern [verb (transitive)] a1425 (c1384) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) Ezek. xii. 2 Sone of man, thou dwellist in mydil of an hous terrynge to wraththe, whiche han eyen for to see [L. qui oculos habent ad videndum], and seen not, and eris for to here, and heren not. 1533 J. Frith sig. A.7v They open the misterie of all our mater to them that haue eyen to see. 1588 G. Withers Ep. Ded. sig. A3v All that are wise, and haue eies to see, do perceiue, that in this maner of dealing, they do but vtter their owne shame. 1648 W. L. 11 This is one obsticle in the way of great men, who if they had eyes to see, they might know that the service of God and his Church, is..the highest honour. 1789 Mar. 135/2 The influence of the fair sex over the men is great and universal... He that has eyes to see will be convinced of it in relation to others. 1829 12 Sept. 79/3 All who have eyes to see, have been struck with the bustling regularity with which they move. 1875 J. J. Stevenson 25 What a wealth of architectural design he could have given us if we had eyes to see and heart to receive it. 1912 L. Strachey vi. 228 To him who had eyes to see, there might be significance in a ready-made suit of clothes, and passion in the furniture of a boarding-house. 1939 E. M. Forster 18 With this type of person knocking about, and constantly crossing one's path if one has eyes to see or hands to feel, the experiment of earthly life cannot be dismissed as a failure. 2008 15 Feb. (Midwest Final ed.) i. 2/3 The mayor's buffers are well known to anyone with eyes to see. They roll in money. the mind > attention and judgement > attention > pay attention [phrase] 1425 (a1400) (Lansd.) (1933) 149 (MED) But euere to gode god hath is eye. c1425 J. Lydgate (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 1108 (MED) Ȝif þat we Koude han an eye in oure felicite. 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour (St. John's Cambr.) xii. 306 I pray ȝhow..That nane of ȝow for gredynes Haf E till tak of thair Riches. 1526 W. Bonde iii. sig. AAiv Some feareth synne and payne bothe, hauynge an eye and respecte to bothe, in maner indifferently. 1593 T. Nashe 67 Haue an eie to the maine-chaunce. 1612 F. Bacon (new ed.) 65 Men will Counsell with an eie to themselues. 1691 J. Evelyn (ed. 8) 86 Have still an eye to the weeding and cleansing part. 1713 R. Steele No. 11. 74 A Man will have an Eye to his first Appearance in Publick. 1756 C. Lucas iii. 285 The gentlemen of the corporation..have..no small eye to gain. 1834 14 June All these buildings are of brick, and the materials were collected and the workmanship was done with an eye to the future. 1861 G. W. Thornbury I. 358 He collects analytical diagrams of Dutch boats, with an eye to get nearer to Vandervelde. 1888 J. A. Froude 40 Gold and silver plate, he observed with an eye to business was..abundant. 1903 H. James iii. vii. 102 He was now so interested..that he had already an eye to the fun it would be to open up to her afterwards. 1943 Jan. 44/1 But the Army has an eye to the future, too, and the process of taking more and more from the airlines..has stopped. 2005 12 May 6/3 She frames her plea with an eye to the prejudices of those she needs to convince. the mind > will > wish or inclination > desire > [verb (transitive)] 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé II. 95 They never observe anothers, have no eyes for any but for them they love [Fr. n'ayans des yeux que pour voir ce qu'ils aiment]. 1783 tr. F. Algarotti (new ed.) 68 Our lovers have eyes only for us [It. come in noi sole mirano i nostri vaghi]. 1810 J. Porter IV. xii. 357 Helen had eyes for none but Wallace. 1896 Mar. 541/1 Sue says that Ruth had eyes for nobody but the country buck. 1923 J. S. Huxley i. 56 To be so horrifiedly fascinated by it as not to have eyes for anything else. 1934 A. Dubin (title of song) I only have eyes for you. 1948 3 July 28 Have you eyes for a sandwich? 1951 W. Sansom xiii. 189 There's a gaz-and-pneu baron from Bormes has only eyes for her. 1971 D. Wells & S. Dance ii. 29 Higgie threw a hand grenade at the boss's wife. (A hand grenade is a note saying, ‘I want to see you,’ or ‘I got eyes for you.’). 2004 Apr. 100/2 The Baked Alaskan Salmon traditional roast potatoes and sauce charon was the only thing she had eyes for. 1865 J. Pycroft xi. 216 As to his guess hits..we can only suppose..that he reserves them till his ‘eye is well in’, and he has observed the uniform break or rise of the ball. 1882 1 July 4/6 Bannerman..though he must have fairly ‘got his eye in’, scarcely ever attempted to hit. 1884 No. 316. 482 Their eyes were well in. 1912 A. Brazil vii. 115 When you're in doubt, watch each ball carefully, till you get your eye in. 1918 22 Mar. 6/1 They repair to the drill ground, upon which has been laid out a baseball diamond, and get their arms limber and their eyes ‘in’. 1957 R. Galton & A. Simpson (1987) 77 That's better, I've got my eye in now, I'm landing them just where I want them. 2006 Oct. 38/4 They had time..to get their eye in and get used to the courts, balls and surroundings. 1955 L. Feather x. 346 Eyes, desire, ambition. (‘No eyes’—‘I'm not interested’.) 1961 R. Russell i. 18 Think you'd have eyes to work with him? 1967 D. G. Taggart viii. 63 He looked like he's got eyes. 1970 T. Southern vi. 171 ‘I was wondering..if you'd fucked Angie yet.’.. ‘No, man,..I'm not sure I've got eyes.’ 1986 J. Pietsch 133 A jazz musician's..son is plucking the petals from a daisy..saying ‘She digs me, got no eyes; digs me, got no eyes.’ 1579 J. Stubbs sig. E2 And I besech God graunt hir at that time to haue hir eyes in hir heade euen in that sence in which Salomon placeth a wise mans eyes in his head. 1600 F. Johnson xii. 119 The case is so cleare, as if you have your eies in your head, you can not but see it. 1620 tr. G. Boccaccio I. iv. ii. f. 149 What? Haue you no eyes in your head? Can you not distinguish between mine, and these other common beauties? a1726 M. Clarke (1727) 13 You had need have your eyes in your Head, as the wise man has. 1781 J. Moore I. 66 ‘Have you eyes in your head, Sir!’ continued the connoisseur: ‘Don't you know St. John when you see him?’ 1837 May 483 The governor had two eyes in his head, and so he finds out the latitude of the thing. 1888 19 Apr. 243/3 Nobody with eyes in his head could have passed the week just ended in Berlin without recognizing that if a firebrand comes to the throne the materials are close crowded upon him for a terrible conflagration. 1917 18 Nov. (Fiction section) 1/3 ‘Don't tell me you've tried,’ said Mrs. Devens angrily. ‘I've got two eyes in my head. It's my belief you are committed to that Vail girl in some way!’ 1960 G. W. Target (1962) 29 Only I've heard one or two things listening to the sweethearts, and I've got eyes in my head as well as anyone else. 2008 C. Ozick 146 I was eighteen, with eyes in my head, beginning to know a thing or two. 1886 R. Kipling Three & Extra in 17 Nov. 3/4 It was a gorgeous dress... I can't describe it, but it was what they call ‘a Creation’, a thing that hit you straight between the eyes and made you gasp. 1899 9 Dec. 834/1 One sentence jumped out in the middle of it and hit me in the eye, so to speak. 1935 5 Apr. 20/3 The unusual feature that smacks you between the eyes as you watch the Boston Braves..is the fact that outside of four or five young'uns stumbling around on the field, there are no rookies in camp. 1952 Nov. 361/1 There were three or four things that struck me between the eyes. 1985 (Nexis) 6 Feb. It was one of the occasions when things went wrong that reality hit me in the eye. 2001 17 Jan. (City Plus section) 8/6 When I saw the technology in operation, it hit me between the eyes. l. Phrases with keep, often with have as a variant. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > watch or observe the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > keeping watch > keep watch on [verb (transitive)] c1225 (?c1200) (Bodl.) (1981) l. 40 Euer ha hefde on hali writ ehnen oðer heorte. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vi. xvii. 316 A seruaunt..haþ ȝe and hond apon his lord to do what likeþ and plesiþ his lorde. a1450 (Pierpont Morgan) (1865) l. 3934 (MED) Segryne had euer on him his eye. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger II. iii. i. sig. Bb.iiiv/1 Let this be the rule for him to keepe his eye vpon in all businesse & affaires of his science. 1605 G. Chapman iii. i. sig. F 1 Rin. What would he be, If you should not restrayne him by good connsell? Gost. Ile haue an eye on him, I warrant thee. 1659 B. Harris tr. J. N. de Parival ii. i. xviii. 211 It was supposed the Earle of Essex had an eie upon Oxford. 1778 J. R. Forster vi. 390 I..went where he called me, but kept an eye on O-Too's sister, who immediately seized two large ten inch spikes. 1800 J. Stuart in Marquess Wellesley (1877) 569 An advertency to the former periods of history..ought to caution us to keep a watchful eye on this quarter. 1818 33 64 I shall keep my eye upon them. 1877 23 Aug. 20/2 The Devil already controls Chicago, and we have heard it intimated that he has his eye on New York. 1900 H. James (1947) 398 Chad has meanwhile continued to deny..that he has his eye on Mlle de Vionnet, that her mother has..hers on him. 1945 E. Bowen 92 I needn't exactly hurry. I just ought to keep an eye on the time. 1956 A. Wilson ii. ii. 319 You asked me to keep an eye on that Larrie Rourke. 2010 17 Aug. 33/3 My disabled mother lives with us so he keeps an eye on her, which is a definite help. 1572 (a1500) (1882) 695 I mon..eirnestly efter him haue myne E ay. 1641 R. Brathwait xxii. 117 One that had a dangerous leering eye after his Neighbours Wife. 1657 J. Dodington tr. C. Vialart 527 The King having secured the Peace in Languedoc, Monsieur le Cardinal invited him to have an eye after the establishment of it in Provence. 1781 II. 39 It was hoped, he said, that the honourable gentleman had not himself an eye after the diamond. 1821 (ed. 2) 21 I soon observed, however, that he was keeping an eye after me, and he saw me go into my lodging. 1895 1 489 As she is very good-looking and clever, if not rich, she may have an eye after one of these young ministers who are coming to Linnburn on Thursday. 1917 T. C. Murray Sovereign Love in 23 I want to have an eye after the little mare. 1980 (Republic of Kenya) 52 845 We would like the Minister for Higher Education to keep an eye after the establishment of the bureau, particularly in the tendering section. 1618 E. Parr 142 Our eye must be on the prize to ouercome.] 1628 Z. Boyd viii. 1174 Let neither the loue of life nor the feare of death turne his eyes from the prize of the high calling of God. 1658 T. Hall 392 To incourage you, have an eye to the Prize, and the recompence of Reward. 1716 M. Hole IV. l. 426 Let us often think of the End of our Christian Course, and have an eye to the Prize of our high Calling in Christ Jesus. 1831 L. E. Landon III. xviii. 302 The race is run without an eye to a prize. 1892 6 Oct. 3 The Milwaukee delegation caucused early this evening and reached the conclusion to support St. Louis for the next convention of real estate men, at the same time keeping an eye on the prize for 1894. 1920 6 May 282/2 Obeying St. Paul, I fixed my eyes on the prize at the end of the race and was oblivious of passing events. 1967 11 Nov. 10/8 The North American toy industry also has its eyes on the prize. 2013 (Nexis) 10 Sept. 2 Keep your eye on the prize. Connect what you're doing today, with where you want to be tomorrow. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > be vigilant or on one's guard [verb (intransitive)] 1651 ii. 40 'Tis necessary that you keep an Eye open upon the Stomaticall Magazin, and see that Memory forget not her self to charge all the Lady Sences to be vigilant in this action. 1654 J. Trapp (Hosea xiv. 8) 181 God hath a quick ear in such a case; He hath also an eye open to the supplications of his servants, in all that they call upon him for. 1697 G. Stanhope tr. P. Charron II. iii. ii. 354 That Diffidence, I mean, which consists in keeping ones Eyes open, ones Mind in suspence, suspecting and providing against every thing. 1736 S. Wesley 220 This wicked London, Where heedless Youth may Bitter meet, In rashly vent'ring after Sweet, Unless their Eyes they open keep, And look right well before they leap. 1766 Feb. 71/1 The merchant always gives the preference to the steady trader, who..keeps his eye open to throw every collateral advantage that does not affect himself, into his customers hands. 1829 Mar. 183 We shall have an eye open for merits as well as for defects. 1834 C. Darwin Let. 30 Mar. in (1985) I. 378 We shall soon Sail to the river of Santa Cruz: it must be from the account of the Indians an immense one: I will keep my eyes open for Nutias. 1889 6 May 3/1 I have heard of you an' I've got an eye open, and if you know what's good for you, you'll keep yourself out of my way. 1917 E. C. Middleton (1918) xii. 177 Their business is to patrol the..home-waters, always having a wary eye open for enemy submarines. 1921 Z. Grey (1924) vi. 146 I knowed we'd meet some day. I can't say I just laid for you, but I kept my eyes open. 2004 June 50/3 Along the way, I kept an eye open for some of Hong Kong's rarest wildlife. the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > vigilance > be vigilant or on one's guard [verb (intransitive)] 1833 17 Oct. 1/4 We've got a rale sharp little fellow to keep an eye out on Squire Biddle, and got him in the Bank too. 1875 11 Nov. Keep your eye out for that air sign across South Commercial Street as that directs you to..the new Boston One Price Clothing House. 1889 ‘M. Twain’ 33 I moved away,..keeping an eye out for any chance passenger in his right mind. 1925 Jan. 409/2 I keep my weather eye out for persons who may have visited or lived in Porto Rico [sic]. 1942 July 57 She's got a sharp eye out, Mrs Pike has. 1974 Jan. 63/1 When we wade after oysters we keep an eye out for cottonmouths, and when walking in the groves we stay on clear, open ground. 2005 Z. Smith 52 OK—we got to keep an eye out for Jerome, though—he's about. m. ?1537 Hugh of Caumpedene tr. sig. I.iijv Nomore than now is velanye For to loke a man in the eye. 1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ IV. viii. ii. 144 Whilst Cleonisbe was talking, the Prince of Phoceus looked her full in the eyes. 1760 Jan. 34/2 If he listen while I tell a tale, Or look me but full in the eye, I faulter, I blush, and turn pale. 1837 23 Dec. 203/2 ‘Look me directly in the eye!’ cried Dorn, seizing the hand of the unpractised dissembler. 1880 G. Meredith II. v. 88 She..looks you straight at the eyes, perfectly unabashed. 1896 A. E. Housman xlii. 60 With..friendly brows and laughter He looked me in the eyes. 1931 E. A. Guest 23 I want to be able as days go by Always to look myself straight in the eye. 1933 H. L. Ickes (1953) I. 97 I looked those mayors in the eye and I told them what the exact truth was. 1965 1 July 4/1 To be modern enough to look the great industrial powers in the eye on a basis of full equality. 2005 H. Harari xii. 71 When I ordered a salad, the kind waitress looked me straight in the eye and asked: ‘French, Roquefort, Thousand Islands?’ 1603 P. Holland tr. J. Amyot in tr. Plutarch 315 Plutarch sheweth sufficiently by the thirtieth rule,..that in manner all doe regard and looke upon things with another eie, than they ought [Fr. que presque tous regardent les choses d'autre œil qu'il ne faut]. 1640 A. Stafford 69 These two behold their Subjects with a different eye. 1683 No. 1835/3 If the City should Look upon it with another Eye. 1728 J. A. Du Cerceau tr. J. T. Krusinski I. 81 None but Eunuchs came near his Person,..and he looked upon their Attendance on his Person with another Eye to what he did before. 1821 H. M. Jones xviii. 369 I trust you will alter your mind, and look with a different eye upon my assiduities. 1858 June 529/1 As the country, since the opening of railways, has been threaded by Southern visitors, the dwellings have been looked at with another eye, and it has been felt they are an eyesore to the land. 1948 E. O. Lorimer tr. A. Beljame i. 71 The moment that the author became eligible for high employment and fat salaries, he was looked on with another eye and granted what he had never enjoyed before: respect and esteem. 1996 (new ed.) i. 9 You will look at these with a different eye when they have to be paid for out of your profits. 2009 (Republic of Kenya) 3 Dec. 49 There could be a few points that the Minister may need to look at with another eye. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] ?1532 lxxxviii. sig. H.ivv One that had sore eies, was warned of the phisitian, that he shulde in any wyse forbeare drinking or els lose his eies. 1598 W. Lisle tr. S. G. de Senlis in tr. G. de S. Du Bartas 64 Hanibal, whom the Poet noteth by the name of Borgne..because he lost an eye by ouer-watching himselfe in the passage of certaine great marrish-grounds into Hetruria. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor iii. 24 We cannot behold the least atome in the Sun without danger of loosing an eye. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot i. 260 The Dust..is blown into the Eyes by the Wind, which is the reason that there are many blind in that Country. Whilst I was in Ægypt, a French Merchant lost an Eye so. 1778 T. Warton II. xv. 347 He afterwards insinuates, that the Cardinal had lost an eye by the French disease. 1846 W. Greener (new ed.) 300 We..have a friend who lost an eye and blew down a house side. 1909 M. E. Lowndes v. 97 She nursed Mmme de Soissons through an attack of smallpox, catching the malady and nearly losing an eye. 2004 E. Reid i. 32 He'd lost an eye in a grease fire and wore a black felt eye patch to cover the curdled orb. 1806 R. Cumberland iv. iii. 79 I have seen him, And, till he married, saw him every where, Prowling from place to place, and making eyes At each stray miss—myself amongst the many. 1852 W. M. Thackeray III. i. 12 She used to make eyes at the Duke of Marlborough. 1905 Apr. 78/1 E. H. Harriman has made eyes at it.., but so far its owners have refused to sell out. 1937 W. M. Raine xiv. 159 You would think a girl couldn't be a double-crosser if she was pretty enough and made eyes at you. 1962 C. Ekwensi ii. 8 She was on her way to market, she said, making eyes at him. 1999 D. Mitchell 56 ‘Don't give me that! I saw you two making eyes at each other.’ 1630 (single sheet) ii The Ladies gaue a shout, Woodcock beware thy nee.] 1766 R. Rogers i. ii. 11 Conceal yourself, and mind your Eye. 1790 D. Morison 187 Aurther mind your eye, When..ance ye're fairly ty'd and she your wife, Ye'll ken the crosses o' a married life. 1841 C. Dickens xxx. 108 He would recommend him..to mind his eye for the future. 1891 H. Herman 37 ‘Mind your eye, sir,’ at last cried the young man, ‘and don't budge. We've got to get that partition beam away. It's that that's crushing you.’ 1950 R. Davies i. 23 I..levelled ye with me fist, that's what happened to ye. And I'll do it again if ye don't mind yer eye. 2005 (Nexis) 28 Oct. 33 If doing the opposite of what you say you will do is the principle to be established, mind your eye. q. (a) the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > blind c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) 7713 Me ssolde pulte out boþe is eye, & makye him pur blind. 1573 J. Bridges tr. Erasmus in 610 A madde and fierce kinde of men, whiche murthered with swordes, maymed with Sythes, and with Lyme mingled with Vinegar put oute the eyes of the true beleeuers. a1609 T. Playfere (1610) 24 This plaister seemes more likely to put out his eyes which sees, then to cure his eyes who is blind. 1699 R. L'Estrange lxxxvi. 86 One part of the World have their Eyes put out with the Flashes of his Dazling Beams. 1706 IV. viii. 438 Andronicus's Eyes being to be put out with scalding-hot Vinegar. 1820 F. MacDonogh V. xcii. 35 Another street nuisance is your poke-bonnet ladies, who sometimes put out your eyes with these pent-house projections. 1929 Dec. 22 This blinding white vapor remains unconquered. It continues to put out the eyes of traffic on land, sea, and air. 1993 P. Ackroyd (1994) iii. 97 It is very bright there, sir, the brightness puts out my eyes. society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > illegal payment or exaction > [verb (transitive)] > bribe 1580 H. F. tr. S. Pelegromius 35/2 To Bribe, vide to put out ones eies with giftes. 1593 T. Nashe f. 81v There is a sloth also in punishing sinne, as when Magistrates will haue theyr eyes put out with gyfts, and will not see it. a1625 J. Fletcher Mad Lover v, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher (1647) sig. D2v/2 Put out mine eye with twelve pence? do you shaker? 1631 J. Shirley i. 10 Your Iustice of Peace..will suffer any man to put out his eye with a bribe. 1677 Z. Babington 12 To prevent or prevaricate a right Judgment, in the Judge; or by any dust of gold, power or favour, to put out his eyes, or falsifie his clear sight. 1744 J. Ralph i. 11 See a great Man's Eyes put out with a Bribe. the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > weeping > weep [verb (intransitive)] 1447 in S. A. Moore (1871) i. 19 Germyn putte his fynger yn his ye and wepte. 1576 G. Pettie 76 Of which newes so soone as his wife was partaker, for fashion sake shee put finger in the eye, and attired herselfe in mourning apparell. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) ii. ii. 207 No longer will I be a foole, To put the finger in the eie and weepe. View more context for this quotation c1626 (1955) 1256 Would one have thought ye foolish Ape would putt the finger in ye Eye, & tell it Daddy! 1738 iii. 49 Have we not enough in every Street, but we must put a Finger in Eye, and cry for Foreign Ware? 1842 J. O. Halliwell 103 Cry, baby, cry, Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother it was I. 1959 I. Opie & P. Opie 188 He wonders if he will ever escape from the shame of the hateful verses: Cry, baby, cry, Put your finger in your eye, And tell your mother It wasn't I. 2007 C. Rush i. 19 Cry baby cry, put your finger in your eye, tell your mother it wasn't I. I arrived on the wave-swept rocky shore, the sunken sea-dreams of my folk locked hard in my head. society > society and the community > dissent > absence of dissension or peace > be in concord [verb (intransitive)] 1612 R. Greenham 722 Esay [= Isaiah] more plainly, Chap. 52 8. reporteth that we shall see eye to eye.] 1747 G. Whitefield Let. 5 July in (1771) II. 114 May Jesus heal them, and hasten that blessed time, when we shall all see eye to eye, and there shall be no disputings about houses, doctrine, or discipline in all God's holy mountain! 1794 T. Packer 32 If Mr. Huntington's followers see eye to eye with him in other points of doctrine, they certainly will in this. a1835 W. Nevins (1836) 87 A principal reason why we are not more of one mind, is that we are not more of one heart. How soon they who feel heart to heart, begin to see eye to eye! 1879 xxvi. 4 Unable to see eye to eye with the subscribers. 1935 C. Isherwood v. 84 I'm afraid Schmidt and I don't quite see eye to eye on the subject just at present. 1955 10 May 9/4 The two Governments do not see eye to eye. 2010 P. Murray 180 For a while now your father and I haven't been seeing eye to eye. It's not, it's not anybody's fault, it's just the way relationships sometimes go. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1622) ii. i. 39 As well to see the vessell that's come in, As to throw out our eyes for braue Othello. View more context for this quotation 1639 H. Glapthorne i. ii. 9 Throw her eyes out on my shape, Call me Pigsny, pretty Ape. 1656 Simpleton the Smith 6 in R. Cox (ed. 2) If you please to throw your eyes out of the window upon me, you shall behold one of the faithfullest lovers that ever took hammer in hand. 1762 XXXVI. 124 The confederates were obliged to throw their eyes for assistance towards a power, whom they had some time before considered as their capital enemy. 1798 H. J. Pye iii. 61 Europe's astonish'd sons..threw their trembling eyes for aid To shores their coward envy once betray'd. the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore [verb (intransitive)] 1698 J. Norris IV. 223 To turn the deaf Ear, and the blind Eye to all those Pomps and Vanities of the World which we renounc'd at our Baptism. 1710 T. Baylye 11 Men turn the deaf Ear, the blind Eye, and obdurate Heart. 1797 S. J. Pratt I. xxiii. 172 Few are those who have not been under a necessity of turning the apparently deaf ear, and the blind eye, on our own conduct, or on that of our neighbours. 1823 M. Wilmot 1 Oct. (1935) 197 I turn a blind eye and a deaf ear every now and then, and we get on marvellously well. 1891 Apr. 792 It is not a brave thing—quite the contrary—in any man to turn a blind eye to the instinctive perceptions of his own intelligence. 1925 N. E. Odell in E. F. Norton et al. 290 The Tibetans appear to turn a blind eye to the wholesale slaughter involved in the collection..of over 10,000 specimens by our ardent Natural Historian. 1927 G. K. Chesterton 108 Nelson turned his blindest eye On Naples and on liberty. 1963 7 Mar. 16/6 The police turn a blind eye to this problem because they are only too glad to get lorries from parking on the main roads. 2001 I. Sinclair (2002) i. vi. 79 Marks would evidently turn a blind eye to the sack of swag. Or anything else where he could work an angle. P3. Phrases with nouns. a. 1851 5 1006 Numerical evidence is adduced to show that the irregularity of transits thus observed is far less than that of transits observed by eye and ear. 1875 Feb. 387 This is the method of ‘eye-and-ear’ observation, the basis of such work as we have described, and it is so called from the part which both the eye and the ear play in the appreciation of intervals of time. 1913 3 Jan. 36/1 (heading) Eye and ear observations. 2001 34 176 The new electro-chronograph (also known as the American method) was slowly replacing the old eye-and-ear method for measuring stellar transits involved in longitude and time determinations. 1563 L. Humphrey i. sig. a.iiv They, be both the eyes, and eares of prynces. 1586 T. Bowes in tr. P. de la Primaudaye I. 676 (margin) Counsellors are the eies & eares of a Prince. 1628 tr. P. Matthieu 116 Tiberius..could not heare nor see any thing but through Seianus, who alone was his eyes and his eares. 1685 J. Norris in F. Digby & J. Norris tr. Xenophon viii. 144 Cyrus made sure to himself those who are call'd the Eyes and the Ears of the King no other way then by obliging them with Gifts and Honours. 1788 E. Gibbon VIII. xlvi. 161 The faithful agents, the eyes and ears of the king, informed him of the progress of disorder. 1834 26 Sept. 1/5 The Privy Councillors and Ministers of the day, the men who are the eyes and ears of Government, were generally those who had been rebels or United Irishmen. 1863 19 Mar. 1/2 The cavalry constitute the eyes and ears of the army. 1941 6 Sept. 8/2 The patrols have a triple job on their hands—to act as eyes and ears for the British navy, to protect the supplies which our factories are turning out..[etc.] 1996 J. T. Hospital (1997) 357 ‘What's wrong with Quilpie?’ ‘Spies,’ he says. ‘Sniffers. Bernie's eyes and ears, Bernie's little hirelings.’ 2013 S. Merill 17 I ask them to be my eyes and ears, to share with me any information about my child that they think I need to know. the world > space > distance > nearness > near by [phrase] > close together 1628 O. Felltham x. sig. I5v Wee iudge them neere, at the eyes end. 1704 III. 294/2 Keep him thus at Eyes-End, and Lips-end, but for a Week or a Fortnight. c. 1533 W. Tyndale f. 28 For as for their false iugelinge we fele it at our fyngers ende: we se it, had we but halfe an eye. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in 348 Euery man that hath but halfe an eye, seeth these grosse inconsequences. ?c1622 E. Bolton (1722) ii. 215 Iniquities..are sometime laid on so impudently thick, that with less than half an Eye the Paintings are discernable. 1652 N. Culpeper 12 He that hath but half an Eye may see their pride without a pair of Spectacles. 1731 J. Rigby 19 Is it not apparent to any one that hath but half an Eye that in the 13th Verse he speaks only to them that were with him? 1839 25 Apr. 268/1 In case of war, it requires but half an eye, to see that the Gulf of Mexico would be the theatre of conflict. 1890 M. Taylor (1990) iii. 34 With half an eye she might have seen that his motive for calling was an utter triviality. 1916 Nov. 807/1 It took but half an invitation to induce him to head with us for Santa Cruz, and but half an eye to see that the lithe young Portuguese was an able walker. 1975 T. Brooke-Taylor et al. 51 Mr. Oddie, I strongly object to being referred to as ‘Stingy’. A swift butcher's at Exhibit ‘H’ will make it clear to anyone with half an eye that we are very lavish with our gifts. 1999 Nov. 18/1 Those with half an eye for detail will recognise the little hand-gun from the dismantled parts pictured here. the world > action or operation > easiness > easy, easily, or without difficulty [phrase] > without effort or strain the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > glance at > perceive at a glance 1536 J. Gwynneth sig. d.ii Thou mayst now, with halfe an eye perceyue..it can not folow, that an heretyke hath in dede, any part of the fayth. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten i. xxxiii. 66/1 These Xaraffos..can discerne it [sc. counterfeit money] with halfe an eye. 1651 C. Barksdale tr. H. Grotius xi. 253 Any one may see with half an eye, how impertinent it is. 1751 T. Smollett III. lxxxvii. 58 He had not been here three minutes, when I could perceive with half an eye, that he had marked out your grace for a conquest. 1842 Mar. 321 ‘I could see it with half an eye.’ ‘Ah! yer dogged 'cute,’ rejoined the conceited rustic, with a grin. 1883 R. L. Stevenson iv. xviii. 143 I saw with half an eye that all was over. 1918 Sept. 95/1 One could see with half an eye that there was no harm in him. 1941 Nov. 24/3 For all her joy at being reunited with her offspring Colin could see with half an eye that she didn't relax completely. 1998 (Nexis) 17 Nov. 10 Anyone inspecting the trapdoors..could see with half an eye that damp could not have been the reason for the failure of the doors. 1612 W. Shute tr. G. Du Vair 239 Beeing halfe dead, they shall open their eye liddes, to beehold with halfe an eye their treasures, but at the last..they must forsake all this trashe, a stronger power hales them away. 1735 Aug. 450/1 Observe Clarinda with a beau, While you yourself are sitting by, She'll scarce vouchsafe you half an eye. 1830 98 It would not be difficult to seat ones-self in the very same window-seat..whence the..Earl of Caithness was wont with ‘half an eye’ to watch the Union flying at the flag-staff in the Fort. 1883 R. L. Stevenson v. 40 Two of the fellows began to look here and there among the lumber, but half-heartedly, I thought, and with half an eye to their own danger all the time. 1916 J. Buchan vi. 105 He was growing as mad as a hatter. I kept half an eye on the clock. I was hopeful now,..looking for the right kind of chance. 1991 14 Sept. 42/1 Why bother with the Liberal Democrats?.. Worth keeping half an eye on, in case a fluke general-election result hands them brief influence in a hung parliament. 2005 (Nexis) 18 May [It] is so determined to remain mainstream..that it ends up as televisual wallpaper, something to watch with half an eye as you eat dinner. the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of leg > [noun] > knee-cap a1400 tr. Lanfranc (Ashm.) (1894) 177 To kepe þis ioynture from harm, is ioyned þeron a round boon &..of summen it is clepid þe yȝe of þe knee. 1572 J. Higgins (rev. ed.) Whirlebone of ones knee, the patill or shildelyke bone, the rowle and the eye of the knee. 1896 3 Sept. 16/2 The kite will not be confined to meteorological uses, nor the kite-camera to military reconnaissances... What secrets may be revealed by this eye in the sky, we leave for the imagination of the reader. 1907 27 July 1077/2 An army with even only one ‘eye in the sky’ is to be feared by that which has no such resource. 1936 22 June 22/1 If your horse wins by as slender a margin as a quarter of an inch the ‘eye in the sky’ will see to it that you get your money. 1949 6 Mar. 10/3 (caption) Time diagram showing ‘eye in the sky’ satellite to guide pilotless missiles. 1978 J. R. Feegel iii. 46 And now, here's our eye in the sky, Sergeant Joe Flag. 1993 A. Toffler & H. Toffler v. xix. 186 Almost any government..may soon be able to buy eyes in the skies to provide sophisticated images of U.S. tanks or troops or missile emplacements to within about fifteen feet of accuracy. 1994 Oct. 33 Within each resort, a private army of security guards, backed up by ‘eye in the sky’ overhead video cameras, makes the security even tighter. 2013 (Nexis) 1 Aug. 1 The drones..are still in the test phase, but ‘just the rumor of an eye in the sky and the noise of it flying overhead will serve to deter potential incidents’. 1857 1 188/1 I have..Madrepores, that build up ocean reefs..and that carry their eyes on stalks. 1916 J. E. Peabody & A. H. Hunt ii. v. 156 Of what advantage may it be to the crayfish to have its eyes on stalks instead of on the surface of the head? 1935 W. Fortescue 178 I found myself hugging the edge of a positive precipice... With eyes on stalks I drove on. 1958 M. Stewart ix. 130 What they call a small private party'd make your eyes stand out on stalks, as the saying is. 1985 May 77/3 The megalops has eyes on stalks (as the adult crab does), three pairs of walking legs and crude claws. 2005 D. Nicholls 154 Mouth open, eyes out on stalks. I mean, anyone else would have just walked out and shut the door. 1884 Jan. 63 The..dreadful calm within the whirl, to which sailors have given the name of ‘the eye of the storm’. 1934 A. H. R. Goldie (rev. ed.) v. 93 There is a patch of blue sky over the calm centre, which is well known in the hurricane countries as the ‘eye of the storm’, or as a ‘bull's-eye’. 1970 P. White 1 Feb. (1994) xi. 357 Have you had any experience of hurricanes..? I am particularly interested in..the eye of the hurricane: whether a ship can sail along within the eye and miss most of the storm. 1978 A. Maupin 7 She found her in the eye of the storm, bumping with a black man in Lurex knickers and glitter wedgies. 1993 Jan. 56 In the eye of the storm, a surfer threads the treacherous Banzai Pipeline on the North Shore. 2000 18 Feb. 9/1 Its Gresham Street office is the eye of the hurricane of controversy and backbiting. h. 1550 J. Heywood lxxv. sig. Ciiiv The wethercocks beke is still in the wyndes eie. 1577 in J. Dee Advt. to Rdr. sig. Δ.iiij He findeth himself..partly forced, somwhat to yelde to the wickednes of these tymes, (being not possible to sayl against the windes eye). 1627 J. Smith ix. 39 Boording or beating it vp vpon a tacke in the winds eye, or bolting to and againe. a1665 K. Digby (1868) 50 The 4 galliottes..rowed into the windes eye. 1726 P. Dudley in (Royal Soc.) 33 264 Let the Wind blow which Way it will, that Way they [sc. dead whales] will scull a Head, tho' right in the Eye of the Wind. 1762 T. Smollett II. xiii. 6 As for sailing in the wind's eye, brother, you must give me leave. 1823 Ld. Byron iv. 55 In the Wind's Eye I have sailed. 1888 J. R. Lowell 177 He's a Rip van Winkle skipper,..who sails his bedevilled old clipper In the wind's eye, straight as a bee. 1913 A. Conan Doyle Horror of Heights in Nov. 586/1 Yet I had always to turn again and tack up in the wind's eye, for it was not merely a height-record that I was after. 1937 W. Lewis ii. i. 75 Her head of a small wistful seabird, delicately drafted to sail in the eye of the wind. 1969 P. O'Brian (1970) iv. 128 ‘Anything to windward?’ called Jack... ‘Yes, sir. A sail. A lateen. Hull down in the wind's eye.’ 1996 (Nexis) 22 Apr. 20 On a hillock at Rammedalen a windmill, similar to our Brooklyn wind-turbine, turned in to the wind's eye. 1823 W. Scott I. vii. 119 John Blower, when he was a wee bit in the wind's eye, as he ca'd it, puir fallow—used to sing a sang about a dog they ca'd Bingo, that suld hae belanged to a farmer. 1883 R. L. Stevenson iv. xx. 161 Maybe you think we were all a sheet in the wind's eye. But I'll tell you I was sober. 1705 tr. G. Guillet de Saint-Georges i. at Mark A Horse Marks, that is, he shews his Age by a Black Spot call'd the Bud or Eye of a Bean [Fr. germe de féve], which appears about five and a half in the Cavity of the Corner-teeth, and is gone when the Horse is eight years old; then he ceases to mark, and we say, he has raz'd. 1736 N. Bailey et al. (ed. 2) Eye of a Bean, a black speck..in the cavity of the corner-teeth of a horse. 1798 T. Connelly & T. Higgins I. 7/3 A horse that marks still shewing the eye of the bean in his corner tooth. j. society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > opal > [noun] > varieties of 1730 N. Bailey et al. Oculus Mundi [i. e. the Eye of the World] a precious Stone which being put into cold Water, changes its White Colour to Yellow, and becomes almost transparent, but when taken out again returns to its former state. 1772 M. T. Brunnich in G. von Engeström & E. M. da Costa tr. A. F. Cronstedt (ed. 2) App. 6 I have seen the Eye of the World..in Sir Hans Sloane's Collection. 1849 J. R. Jackson xi. 120 The names of Oculus Mundi (eye of the world), and Lapis Mutabilis (changing stone), have been sometimes given to this mineral. 1997 N. Thomas iv. 115 The plates include..the oculus mundi, or eye of the world, a Chinese pebble that becomes transparent in water. P4. Proverbial phrases, allusions, and idioms, and other miscellaneous phrases. a. In biblical allusions. the world > action or operation > behaviour > reciprocal treatment or return of an action > revenge > in revenge or retaliation (for) [phrase] > equal retaliation OE (Claud.) xxi. 24 Sylle lyf wið life: Eage wið eagan [L. oculum pro oculo], toþ wiþ teð, hand wiþ handa, fot wiþ fet. OE (Corpus Cambr.) v. 38 Gehyrdon ge þæt gecweden wæs, Eage for eage and toð for teð. a1400 (a1325) (Vesp.) l. 6701 Ei for ei, and toth for toht. 1535 Matthew v. f. iiiv Ye haue herde howe it is sayde: An eye for an eye, a toth for a toth. 1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin iv. f. 167v Being so minded they wil not seke eie for eie, tooth for tooth, as the Pharises taught their disciples to desire reuenge. 1671 L. Addison xi. 174 In bodily injuries they observe the law of Retaliation, as an Eye for an Eye, a tooth for a tooth. 1732 J. Besse xii. 204 The Law allowed a Man..in case of Injury to retaliate, Eye for Eye, and Tooth for Tooth. 1825 Mar. 315 The doctrine of ‘an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth’ inflicts, indeed, a new pain on the guilty person, but benefits neither the party injured nor the community. 1876 Apr. 746 May we not hope that an ‘eye for an eye’ is, in the order of healthy evolution, to disappear entirely from our penal correctives? 1910 J. Galsworthy (1916) 120 The old theory, ‘an eye for an eye’ condemned to death over nineteen hundred years ago, but still dying very hard in this Christian country. 1942 E. Paul iii. 27 Thérèse's code was ‘an eye for an eye’, and the result of her interference was salutary in the extreme. 2004 S. Mehta 45 There's no justification for the blasts... An eye for an eye is a terrible thing. a1300 in B. J. Whiting (1968) 167 (MED) That einen ne sen, herte ne reut [L. tristatur]. a1325 (c1250) Prov. Hendyng (Cambr.) xxvi, in (1881) 4 187 (MED) Þat eie ne seth, herte ne mournit. a1475 in (1911) 34 261 (MED) That the ey seith, the hert doith rewe. 1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus (new ed.) f. xiii That the eye seeth not, ye hart rueth not. 1592 R. Greene sig. D2 What the eie sees not Phulomela neuer hurteth the heart. 1631 T. Matthew tr. A. Rodríguez 204 And from hence the Prouerbe came that which the eyes see not, the hart rues not. 1667 T. Vincent xiii. 250 That which the eye seeth not, the heart wil not, cannot be affected withal. 1763 J. G. Delpino at Ver What the eyes do not see, the heart does not feel. 1834 Dec. 609/2 If he err for a moment, he will be too discreet to let his wife know it; and ‘what the eyes don't see, the heart cannot grieve at’. 1891 21 Nov. 5/7 There is a good deal of truth in the saying that what the eye does not see the heart does not feel, or we should suffer many qualms as we sat down to our joint of mutton or beef. 1923 N. Anderson iii. 35 I don't allow myself to see things, and as long as the eyes don't see the heart grieves not. 1980 (Nexis) 23 Nov. g1 I kept my career going in the Army while I began to free-lance in London. It was illegal, strictly speaking, but it went unnoticed, and what the eye doesn't see the heart doesn't grieve over. 2013 (Nexis) 1 Oct. 26 Cover with mulch and you can't see that the pieces of wood don't match. What the eye doesn't see... 1529 T. More i. xxiii. f. xxxiv/1 Ye thynk the iugler blow hys gallys through the goblettys bottom..and put a knyfe into his eye and se neuer the worse. c1530 J. Lydgate tr. (de Worde) sig. A.iv Of her owne gentylnesse And that is as moche as a man may put in his eye. a1572 J. Knox Hist. Reformation Scotl. in (1846) I. 119 I shall lodge all the men-of-ware into my Eae, that shall land in Scotland. 1631 J. Mabbe tr. F. de Rojas vii. 82 If you rely onely vpon the ordinary wages of these Gallants, it is such, that what you get by it after tenne yeeres seruice, you may put it in your eye and neuer see the worse. 1699 B. E. at Eye-sore All that you get you may put in your Eye and see ne'er the worse. 1738 J. Swift i. 48 All he gets by her, he may put into his Eye, and see never the worse. 1759 No. 186. 1122 We might have put all our acquisitions in our eye, and not see much worse. 1832 E. Duros III. vii. 118 All I'll get in return for't, I may put in the corner o' my eye, and see ne'er the worse. 1862 15 Nov. 41/2 The rest you might put in your eye And never see the worse. ?1543 T. Phaer tr. J. Goeurot ii. f. x The eyes..are the wyndowes of the mynde [Fr. les yeulx lesquelz sont messagers de lame], for bothe ioye and anger..are seene..through them. 1656 J. Collop 46 What light without, that knowledge is within, Through th'eyes the windows of our Souls let in. 1706 II. 61 The Eyes are the Windows of the Soul. 1742 ‘Fantosme’ I. 112 The Eyes being the Mirrors of the Soul, those Irregularities are as a Mark set on her by Nature, to warn those who address her not to rely much upon her Kindness. 1772 I. viii. 81 ‘I have always been taught’ (said the charming man) ‘that the eyes are the windows of the heart.’ 1850 29 June There is nothing striking in his appearance; but the eye, that index of the mind, would give assurance to the observer that the head was ‘screwed on the right way’. 1883 20 July 1/4 The eye is the window to the soul; use your eyes and hold your tongue. 1936 22 May 6/6 It is a common saying that the eye is the ‘mirror of the mind’. 1983 4 Feb. 85/1 We have all heard the old bromide, ‘The eyes are the portals of the soul’. 2008 C. Hartsock iii. 58 The idea that the eyes are the window to the soul is not a modern one. ?1548 in J. Calvin (new ed.) sig. Aviii Oh blynde bussardes. Where are youre spirituall eyes become? 1567 T. Harding ix. f. 141 Where be your eyes? Nay where is your fidelitie? a1576 E. Dering in W. Hopkinson (1581) sig. F.vii Oh Lorde: where are their eyes that say not this, or their hearts that see and regard it not. 1607 T. Middleton sig. I Where were your eyes? could you not see I was an Officer. 1743 J. Bulkeley & J. Cummins 10 The Captain..seeing the Light, ask'd the Master, Where his Eyes were? 1814 F. Burney II. 159 Mercy me, why, where were my eyes? 1832 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. i. ii. 38 Why don't you rise, Mr. Lazyboots? Where are your eyes? Don't you see the young ladies. 1902 6 Dec. 1/3 Where were the eyes of the stewards and ‘stipe’ in the first race? 1922 Oct. 30/2 Where are your eyes, Boy? You can answer your own question by looking in the book advertisements in any one of a dozen magazines. 1989 B. Small viii. 242 ‘The lady, Mother?’ ‘The lady, my son. Where are your eyes?’.. ‘By Allah! It is a woman!’ 1579 L. Tomson tr. J. Calvin 222/1 They rule not by reason of their faire eyes [Fr. pour leurs beaux yeux]. 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin clxxxiv. 1145 It is not for their faire Eyes (as they say). 1584 T. Lupton sig. A8v For I were as good drinke mine eies out whiles I am aliue, as haue the wormes eate them out when I am dead. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) v. i. 197 O he's drunke..his eyes were set at eight i'th morning. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. ii. 9 Drinke seruant Monster..thy eies are almost set in thy head. View more context for this quotation a1627 T. Middleton & W. Rowley (1656) iii. 41 Yet you may drink your eyes out sir. 1822 May 521 It is soberly better for both eyes than what is anacreontically called a ‘drop in the eye’. 1959 C. Logue 6 I drank my eyes out of my head And wet Her shilling with my fears. 1980 L. Birnbach et al. 174 Grosse Pointe Yacht Club. 788 Lake Shore Rd. Private. Drink your eyes out. 1598 G. Chapman in C. Marlowe & G. Chapman (new ed.) v. sig. K2v All eyes were on her. 1698 G. Granville iv. i. 49 But let some flanting Minx come prancing by, All Eyes are on her, and all Necks are bow'd. 1724 A. Pennecuik (ed. 2) 11 Bess blushes, and she knows not what to say, All Eyes are on her Tenement of Clay. 1807 Let. in (1812) Oct. 266 We are on an eminence, in a certain sense, like a city on a hill. All eyes are on us. 1864 1 June 1/5 All eyes will be on the Chicago Convention, whether it meets in July or in September. 1939 26 26/1 The suspended moment—all eyes on the conductor—and the opening chord came, clear, resonant, in tune! 1950 C. H. Walker iv. 43 All eyes were upon the two ambassadors..as they made profound obeisances. 2005 J. Dicker vi. 117 All eyes were on Silicon Valley. 1580 J. Lyly (new ed.) f. 54 Thou art like the Epicure whose belly is sooner filled then his eye.] 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne i. iii. 100 I feare me our eyes be greater then our bellies, and that we have more curiositie then capacitie. We embrace all, but we fasten nothing but winde. a1633 G. Herbert (1640) sig. D3v The eye is bigger than the belly. 1699 A. Boyer at Belly P. Your Eyes are bigger than your Belly, P. Vous mangez, plus des Yeux que de la Bouche. 1726 J. Swift I. ii. viii. 161 The Captain understood my Raillery very well, and merrily replied with the old English Proverb, that he doubted mine Eyes were bigger than my Belly. 1791 N. Webster 84 A young man often has eyes bigger than his belly. He lays out great plans, which he has feeble means and small talents to accomplish. 1845 13 Apr. 117/1 He is more of a glutton than an epicure, his eyes being much larger than his stomach. 1918 1 Dec. 39/1 City people have eyes forever larger than their stomachs. 1977 12 Nov. 93/1 A conglomerate whose eyes proved bigger than its belly in the bull markets of the 1960s. 2010 S. DiMickele 140 The kids always order the same greasy foods. Their eyes are usually bigger than their stomachs, and we always order too much. 1614 T. Lodge tr. Seneca Of Naturall Questions xiii. xvii. in tr. Seneca 824 At that time as farre as the eie may aime there is nothing that can be discouered but water. 1673 J. Ogilby 204/1 [The Streets] extend in a direct line as far as the Eye can discern. 1727 N. Hooke tr. A. M. Ramsay II. viii. 131 In these Gardens were long Walks, which ran as far as the Eye could reach. 1780 A. Young i. 101 It is a glorious prospect, all waving hills of wheat as far as the eye can see. 1845 Aug. 187 The blue ocean was as smooth as glass: scarcely a cat's-paw of wind could be traced, as far as the eyes could reach. 1870 E. Whymper 102/2 The county was completely covered up by glacier: all was ice, as far as the eye could see. 1932 Feb. 14/3 As far as the eye could see, just treeless, rolling prairie. 1977 9 Nov. b8/2 Traffic was backing up as far as the eye could see. 2005 J. M. Coetzee xxix. 241 Tracts of new housing stretch as far as the eye can see. 1655 F. G. tr. ‘G. de Scudéry’ IV. vii. ii. 102 He was so taken up with contemplation of Mandana's beauty, that he could not take his eyes off her [Fr. qu'il ne pouuoit en détourner les yeux]. 1657 J. Davies tr. H. D'Urfé II. 6 She appeared so fair in that simple habit without any artifice, that Leonide could not keep her eyes off her [Fr. que Leonide n'en pouuoit oster les yeux]. 1714 A. Philips tr. II. 177 I could not take my Eyes off from this Picture. 1749 H. Fielding VI. xviii. xiii. 296 Neither of their Husbands could long keep his Eyes from Sophia. View more context for this quotation 1845 E. Sue II. 151 Usually timid and embarrassed, La Mayeux could not take her eyes off Rodin. 1872 Sept. 316 No wonder that a man should find it difficult to take his eyes off her, and feel his heart throb at the thought that she was to be his. 1941 N. M. Gunn xv. 298 They could not keep their eyes off the waves. 1967 B. Crewe & B. Gaudio (title of song) Can't take my eyes off you. 2007 N. Huston (2008) 206 At the reception I can't keep my eyes or my hands off the food. the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [phrase] > totally different society > communication > book > matter of book > [noun] > title 1656 N. Hardy 28 This it is which teacheth a Judge both to have eyes, and no eyes, whilest she furnisheth him with eyes to see and discerne the cause, and yet closeth up his eyes that he cannot behold the persons. 1794 J. Aikin & A. L. Barbauld IV. 93 (heading) Eyes, and no eyes; or, The Art of seeing. 1865 C. M. Yonge iii ‘There is a wonderful charm in a circumscribed view, because one is obliged to look well into it all.’ ‘Yes; eyes and no eyes apply there,’ said Rachel. 1867 (title) Eyes and no eyes. A magazine of meteorology and natural history. 1901 (title) Cassell's ‘Eyes and No Eyes’ series. 1917 30 June 817/2 (heading) Eyes and no eyes. 2000 (Nexis) 11 Mar. a5 The column, called Eyes or No Eyes, was a reference to people's powers of observation, or lack of them, as they walked through the bush. m. with one's eyes shut (also closed). 1657 J. Dodington tr. C. Vialart 273 He doth not fight rashly with his eyes shut. 1693 W. Payne vii. 187 Such presumptuous persons only rush into Hell with their eyes shut, and see not their danger before they are in it. 1791 E. Gibbon Let. 18 May in (1796) I. 220 To have read the aforesaid acts, would have been difficult; to have understood them, impracticable, I therefore signed them with my eyes shut. 1841 J. F. Cooper II. x. 169 The Delawares are prudent. The Deerslayer will not find them running into a strange camp with their eyes shut. 1888 R. B. W. Noel 82 The eldest daughter..was about to marry a rich person of dubious reputation—with her eyes open; the younger was affianced to an old ‘hereditary legislator’ of notoriously bad life—with her eyes shut. 1925 G. Kelly (1926) ii. 122 Did you expect me to go into a thing as important as marriage with my eyes shut? 1961 W. J. Newman ii. 105 Goldwater's book..is more significant than a mere demonstration of how far a conservative can go with his eyes closed. 2010 (Nexis) 9 June 6 They went into Helmand with their eyes shut and fingers crossed. 1713 R. Steele No. 7. 47 He will tell you, with his Eyes shut, what Province, what Mountain supplied the Liquor. 1827 B. Disraeli V. vii. vii. 65 Doubtless Little Lintz could have given a most faithful representation of every brick of the Great Square of Reisenburg with his eyes shut. 1898 Apr. 64 As for dropping the coil over the animal's horns, fifty feet away, he could do that with his eyes shut. 1920 F. S. Fitzgerald (1922) 72 He had loved to draw her..he could draw her pert, arresting profile with his eyes shut. 1950 26 Sept. 37/2 She could act this part with her eyes closed, but since her eyes are very lively, she has the good taste to keep them open. 2005 L. Dean (2006) xxxvii. 232 Red-brick row-house street after red brick row-house street; she knew the names of them so well she could recite them with her eyes closed. n. my eye. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > [noun] the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > cheating, fraud > [noun] > nonsense, rubbish, humbug 1763 Mar. 159/2 This treatment, gentlemen, is all my eye. 1782 E. Blower II. 113 That's all my eye, and my elbow, as the saying is. 1810 J. Poole i. i. 2 As for black clothes,—that's all my eye and Tommy. 1824 S. E. Ferrier I. xxxi. 345 [A bride] sobbed aloud..although, as Bob and Davy afterwards declared, that was all in the eye. 1842 T. Hood xi The tenderness of Spring is all my eye. 1919 ‘K. Mansfield’ 8 Oct. (1993) III. 13 Was Pa's account of the revolution all my eye? 1948 D. Thomas 25 May (1987) 676 My basic melancholy..all my excruciating whimsicality; all my sloth; all my eye! 2012 (Nexis) 2 May 15 So attractive as it is, that explanation may itself be all my eye. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > feeling of wonder, astonishment > exclamation of wonder [interjection] the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [phrase] 1826 T. Creevey Let. 11 Aug. in J. Gore (1902) x. 226 My eye, what a spot for a ‘walky, walky’. 1838 C. Dickens I. viii. 124 ‘My eyes, how green!’ exclaimed the young gentleman. 1842 S. Lover xvi Church, my eye, woman! church indeed. 1871 30 Dec. 271 1 ‘Nothing in the papers!’ Isn't there, though. My eye! 1906 H. Green 359 They're goin' to mix it up. The little un'll win out, see if she don't. My eye! dames is allus fightin'. 1920 D. H. Lawrence 25 Jan. (1962) I. 617 One becomes indifferent to all political fates—Fiumes, Jugo-Slavakias and such like my-eye. 1929 W. Faulkner 138 ‘How about Bigelow's Mill..that's a factory.’ ‘Factory my eye.’ 1976 T. Murphy On Inside in (1997) 204 Kieran. How much? Sean. Fifteen bob. Kieran. My eye! 2001 J. McGowan (2006) iii. 93 Keep fit? Keep fit my eye! If they were out working hard alongside their men like the women long 'go,..they'd be fit! o. Chiefly in commands. 1787 I. Landmann tr. F. C. von Saldern ii. 82 He steps to the left flank, and gives the word: eyes left! and march! 1792 i. 7 (margin) Eyes Right..Eye Left..Eyes Front. 1816 ‘Quiz’ ii. 50 ‘'Tention eyes right!’ The serjeant calls with all his might. 1832 ii. 35 Its Leader gives the word ‘Eyes Centre’. 1836 C. Dickens (1837) iv. 36 The command ‘eyes front’ had been given. 1887 (Weekly ed.) 18 Nov. 2/5 The words of command were..‘Eyes front; by your right; quick march’. 1915 L. Smith Gunner's Ballad in 4 Jan. 3/2 Eyes front, turn out and man your gun. 1946 27 77 [My R.S.M.] gave Lewis an eyes-right and his stiff jerky salute. 1986 Aug. 2 Everyman House style relies on extremely brave, experienced, eyes-front, multi-talented performers. 2010 S. Fry 14 We would [turn]..our heads in unison towards its inviting windows like cadets honouring their monarch with an eyes right. 1860 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. in Apr. 460/1 Eyes in the boat—mind now, steady all, watch the stroke and don't quicken. 1866 7 July 2/1 In a canoe, it must be remembered, it is not necessary to ‘keep your eyes in the boat’. 1939 ‘C. S. Forester’ ii. v. 342 ‘Keep your eyes inboard, there!’ yelled Harrison, who had detected some members of the crew waving farewell. 1959 Feb. 17/3 A voice boomed: ‘You there, second man! Eyes in the boat!’ And with that command, my life as a Swab really began. 2011 B. Goins ii. 28 Husbands, Keep Your Eyes in the Boat The first rule in rowing is to keep your eyes in the boat. 1810 4 148 It appears that he must have actually had eyes in the back of his head, and that with that pair which..he possessed in front, he must have looked through the person before him. 1833 8 June As you have not eyes in the back of your head, might Mr. Henry not have given Toole a Jemmy Ward or a Springer without your knowledge? 1836 N. P. Willis II. 123 Though I had no eyes in the back of my straw hat, I conceived very well the state in which a compost of soft gingerbread, tears, and perspiration, would soon leave the two unscrupulous hands behind me. 1891 T. Hardy II. xxvi. 65 When he should start in the farming business he would require eyes in the back of his head to see to all matters. 1923 J. Conrad 192 You had better tell him that unless he has a pair of eyes at the back of his head he had better not return here..; for if he does, nothing can save him from a treacherous blow. 1976 21 Dec. 1/4 We were so crowded all the time I'm sure we must have lost some stock. One needed eyes in the back of one's head! 2008 P. Woodworth iv. 68 Up to 22 bookies..stand facing the spectators. Eyes in the back of their heads, ears tuned to every voice among hundreds, they chivvy betters to take on new odds. 1852 C. A. Flahault Let. 27 Jan. in H. W. E. Petty-Fitzmaurice (1924) iii. 285 I am sending you, open, a letter for the President—it is for your eyes only. 1879 8 Feb. 213/1 What is the object of this roster being kept for the eyes of one officer in Whitehall Yard, and for his eyes only? 1882 20 Dec. 1/4 A communication from the Versailles government..was delivered by an entire stranger, who whispered these six ominous words: ‘For your eyes only. Be discreet!’ 1948 June (U.S. Air Force: Directorate of Plans & Operations) U.S. National Arch.: Lucius Clay Papers/Box 12 [TOP SEC] Eyes only to COMGENUSAFE Wiesbaden. 1960 I. Fleming (title) For your eyes only. 1968 Mrs. L. B. Johnson Diary 29 Oct. in (1970) 729 Lyndon's bed was loaded with the red tag folders that were labeled ‘Eyes Only’, ‘Top Secret’. 1974 ‘J. le Carré’ xvi. 136 It's for his eyes only, at least for a couple more weeks. 1979 5 Aug. e1/1 An uninterrupted daily diet of the ‘eyes only’ crisis memorandums prepared for presidents, secretaries of state and NATO commanders. 1990 17 Feb. 6/4 A ‘for your eyes only’ report on Mr Gorbachov's reaction to Herr Helmut Kohl. 2008 7 Apr. 37/3 From here to the end of this letter, all information is ‘eyes only’ and must go no farther than these four walls. the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > move swiftly [verb (intransitive)] > go at full speed the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > swiftly [phrase] > at full speed 1863 E. R. Chudleigh 8 Jan. (1950) iii. 63 My horse turning to quickly while I was going eyes out, fell and rowled oaver. 1895 J. Roberts 28/1 You weren't travelling ‘eyes out’ were you? 1907 Mrs. A. J. Hawdon ix. 185 We went ‘eyes out’ to catch up. 1945 J. Pascoe in Apr. 24 Musterers go ‘eyes out’ to keep the sheds fed with sheep. 1966 G. W. Turner 177 In a light poem, Butler uses the expression eyes out to mean as fast or as energetically as possible. One still hears ‘We'll have to go eyes out to get finished in time’. 2010 (Nexis) 16 Apr. 17 Should he conserve his energy to prime himself for the majors, or go eyes-out in trying to win every match and every trophy? the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of ideation > faint, imperfect idea > [noun] 1934 I. Kahal in (Libr. Congress Copyright Office) (1935) 29 620/2 When you were a smile on your mother's lips and a twinkle in your daddy's eye. 1941 Jan. 188 Of course men talked of bridges, in that romantic way in which they dreamed of continental railroads when these were only a gleam in an imaginative eye. 1965 H. Pinter i. 36 When I was just a glint in your eye. What was it like? 1966 10 Nov. 3/7 The proposal remains but a twinkle in the Home Secretary's eye. 1988 Apr. 36/3 It seems like no more than a decade or two since the magazine was just a gleam in your eye. 2003 May 110/2 Consider David Bohm's idea of the ‘implicate order’, still only a gleam in the eye of physics, that all of physical reality might be thought of as a holographic projection. 1935 Aug. 260/2 The row began : ‘Eyes down’, ‘Look in’, etc., ‘Kelly's eye’, ‘Ninety-nine’, ‘Doctor's Favourite’, ‘Top of the Bungalow’, etc. 1958 I. Ryan iv. 69 Waiting with pencils poised for the caller's jargon to begin: ‘Eyes-down-look-in! Sixty-six -clickety-click. Legs-eleven.’ 1966 P. Moloney 50 And into the Bingo hall I flew. Eyes down—click click—the game is on. 1969 17 Jan. 2 (advt.) Plaza Bingo Club... Eyes Down 7.45. Doors Open 6.0 p.m. 1988 R. Billington vi. 134 My neighbour enjoys bingo; I enjoy Brecht; she would hate to have to watch Mother Courage, while I would find an ‘eyes-down’ session painful. 2003 P. Kay et al. 1st Ser. Episode 2. 40/2 Eyes down, look in, for your first number. Compounds C1. General attributive. a. Denoting the organ or parts relating to it. See also eyebrow n., eyelid n., etc. 1729 T. Cooke 185 The Caitiff trembles, and his Eyebrims flow. 1734 J. Mottley I. i. xi. 118/1 The Snipe Fish, a small Fish, with a long Bill and large Eye Orbits. 1858 H. Miller ii. xii. 434 The snout of the Dipterus was less round; it bore no marks of the eye-orbits. 1995 J. Shreeve (1996) iv. 93 The Neandertal skull shows the characteristic forward projection in the middle of the face, the voluminous nose, rounded eye orbits, [etc.]. 1673 R. Almond xxv. 174 Lay your hand upon the Eye-place a pretty while, that the Unguent may not issue out of the hole. 1869 R. D. Blackmore I. ii. 19 A light came through my eye-places. 2009 R. Chandler et al. tr. A. Platonov 102 Her eye places had grown dark, the mare had already closed her last vision, but she could still smell the hay. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in II. ix. 458 All his eye-roots crackled in the flames. b. Denoting actions, properties, qualities, conditions, and sensations of, or relating to, the eye. 1784 9 Feb. His Royal Highness's dress was a scarlet frock, and silk waistcoat and breeches of the Emperor's eye colour. 1889 F. Galton viii. 138 Stature and Eye-colour..are more contrasted in hereditary behaviour than perhaps any other common qualities. 1922 R. C. Punnett (ed. 6) 204 It was natural that eye-colour should be early selected as a subject of investigation. 2003 Jan. 22 Your own Colour I.D. comes from measuring your skintone and eyecolour against your natural eyebrow colour and intended new hair tone. 1717 (ed. 19) Table Second Bk. Eye Diseases. 1863 W. A. Hammond iii. v. 209 Soldiers exposed to the reflection of the sun's rays from the sand or from snow, suffer to a great extent from eye diseases. 1936 A. Lowy & B. Harrow (ed. 4) xxxvi. 374 The fourth [vitamin deficiency disease] is xerophthalmia, an eye disease, involving a lack of vitamin A. 2011 (Nexis) 10 Jan. 22 Unfortunately nearly a third of people with diabetes don't associate the condition with eye disease and blindness. 1824 C. Lamb in Sept. 226 A momentary eye-encounter with those stern bright visages. 1921 L. P. Smith 24 These eye-encounters in the street, little touches of love-liking. 2011 C. M. Andrews xix. 394 To avoid obvious eye encounter, I ducked behind the wooden panelling of the balcony. 1590 E. Spenser ii. iv. sig. Q2v His countenaunce..Scornefull eyglaunce at him shot. 1827 J. Keble II. c. 189 Your keen eye glances are too bright. 1872 R. Browning xxxii. 33 I call attention to my dress, Coiffure, outlandish features,..all that eye-glance over-skims. 2009 M. A. Regan et al. 274 It is assumed that the driver knows where the phone is located and that the total time required to look for it will be minimal..with only a single eye glance. 1854 P. H. Gosse v. 120 These are all the species in which I have noticed the phenomenon of separate eye-movement, but I suspect it will be found to prevail extensively among fishes. 1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka iii. 71 Do eye-movements..belong among the inherited reflexes, or are they acquired? 2011 4 Apr. 24/3 The computer programme was tricky to operate by eye movement alone but Marini, the first locked-in patient to try it, triumphed. 1550 R. Sherry Ep. sig. Aviii Hym which besyde the corporall eie pleasure, knoeth of eueri one the name & propertye. 1607 G. Markham i. 53 If you preserue your Mare for beautie, and eye-pleasure. 1868 C. L. Eastlake i. 14 A sense of what may be called eye-pleasure..is utterly absent in our English provincial towns. 2003 D. Hall (2004) 202 This visual arrangement, turned audible, releases the sound of the poem, giving a sound-pleasure like the eye-pleasure of the thinginess. 1804 A. Campbell 104 Lo, what a wide expanse,—a prospect grand, An eye-range vast, we from this peak command! 1880 R. Broughton I. i. xii. 203 The very instant he is out of eye-range. 2007 E. Shafak (2008) 342 She felt a sudden, shameless relief to spot no Kazancı relatives of hers within eye range. 1605 B. Jonson v. sig. M Is not he blest That gets a seate in eye-reach of him? more, That comes in eare, or tongue-reach? View more context for this quotation 1625 P. Heylyn (rev. ed.) 542 They had so long together layne in eye-reach. 1884 ‘M. Twain’ xiii. 116 When I judged I was out of eye-reach, I laid on my oars, and looked back. 1998 J. E. Wilson ii. v. 172 The logarithmic scale in Table 5.1 is a convenient device by which ten million years of geologic time and events of this history—pre-history—are shrunk into eye-reach. 1657 T. Reeve 153 All our lip reverence, eye-search, feet-lackyng, ear~bibbing..scarce bring forth a conspicuous Penitent. 1849 22 Dec. 67/2 I resumed my eye-search along the shore,..the master scarcely ever leaving the crow's-nest. 1998 L. J. Braun (1999) xix. 249 He stood still and did an eye-search of their usual haunts. 1858 R. W. Emerson Bks. in Jan. 353/1 I detect them in laughter and blushes and eye-sparkles of men and women. 1981 R. B. Parker ii. 10 I realized she could make that smile with the consonant eye-sparkle whenever she wished. 2010 G. J. Barker-Benfield 14 Abigail continued with an account of the servants' other expressions of joy, perhaps less ambiguous than eye sparkle. 1616 W. Forde 42 The hearts griefe and the eie-teares must goe together. 1933 May 15/2 What you gwine do nigger, wit' the power dat's in yo' ahm Git wipin' yo eye tear, 'till de strenff is dead an' gone. 2013 45 195 This study evaluates the effect of snorted cocaine in the eye tear of 22 occasional cocaine users using the Schirmer Test. 1857 9 43 I had taken it into my head that I could operate for cataract and some minor eye troubles. 1896 24 Sept. 1/3 Mr. Gladstone's eye-trouble. 1913 J. H. Robinson (ed. 3) 59 Many cases of eye trouble due to other causes, given a roup treatment recover, and the poultry keeper thinks he has cured a case of roup. 2009 M. MacDonald v. 111 It may eventually lead to a way to prevent eye trouble. 1845 29 Mar. I could see Big Thunder's eyes and eye wrinkles, lips and beard. 1906 M. O. Wright ii. 18 Crying..is particularly bad for eye wrinkles in the middle-aged. 2009 S. Hale ii. 157 Look at those eye wrinkles. Does this look like the face of a twenty-year-old to you? c. Denoting surgical instruments and other devices used in (or developed for) treatment of the eye. 1841 15 Nov. She takes two or three eye-douches a day. 1944 29 Jan. 163/1 If Dr. Donald is a gas instructor he should have read the official handbooks, in which case he would hardly have put his eye douche in the third compartment from the entrance to the station. 2006 M. Hopper & E. Boutrif 99/2 What safety devices (e.g. fume hoods, emergency showers, eye douche, fire extinguisher, fire blanket, first aid kits, etc.) are available? 1818 2 369 It [sc. the border of the iris] was raised by a pair of small eye forceps, and cut off with the curved scissars. 1928 15 76 After instillation of a 2 per cent cocaine solution into the conjunctival sac the worms become restive and can be readily picked out with eye forceps. 2008 39 64/1 The clots were removed by eye forceps. 1831 G. W. Carpenter 216 (heading) Eye Instruments. 1915 Oct. 219/2 Only the larger, coarser eye instruments are to be sterilized by boiling for from 8 to 10 minutes in the steam sterilizer. 2006 84 841/1 How does the cleaning and sterilization of eye instruments affect the risk of TASS [= toxic anterior segment syndrome]? 1878 464 (table) Making eye pad. 1926 26 531 Apply a sterile eye pad and bandage. 2011 (Nexis) 8 Feb. 20 Her cotton eye pad is far from unsightly or particularly unusual, yet even that can attract strangers' stares. 1836 50 ii. 132 This upper stand is placed so that the edge of the eye-speculum shall be over the middle of the table, and eighteen inches above it. 1901 36 249/1 The majority of the eye specula at present used, are made too clumsy and often not easy to handle. 2012 102 18/2 The irradiated eye was held open with use of an eye speculum. 1841 J. H. Curtis 24 This is to be injected with the aid of an eye-syringe. 1902 2 619 I always prefer to use a fountain syringe for the solution... One can hold the eyelids open much more steadily and gently with one hand when the other has no motions to make, such as filling and expelling the solution from a small eye-syringe. 2005 A. E. Avillion et al. 123 (table) Fills eye syringe or irrigator and holds about one inch above eye. C2. Objective. a. Forming agent nouns. 1662 tr. F. Plater et al. (new ed.) i. i. vii. 74/1 In Vain tormenting the sick with purges and other things and applying Eye clearers. 1883 R. Turner in Dec. 790/2 The pretty little Eyebright..had at one time a great reputation as an eye-clearer. 1902 A. Grimble ii. 32 To those who have not tried this, it can be strongly recommended as a wonderful refresher and eye-clearer. 1932 July 119/3 (advt.) This 35-year-old lotion is the favorite eye clearer and brightener of the most famous stage and screen stars. 1884 Eye-irrigator, a coil of narrow lead tubing..readily bent to fit the orbit and the surface of the lids..through which a constant current of warm or cold fluid is maintained. 1885 21 257 Dr. Collins showed a new form of eye-irrigator. 1958 (St. John Ambulance Assoc.) xvii. 224 This may be carried out with a small eye bath..or with a special Undine eye irrigator. 2004 P. Croucher 102/2 An eye irrigator, whilst not required, should, where possible, be available on the ground. 1838 16 Dec. 1/2 (advt.) Eye Protectors, Glasses of all Shades and Complexions. 1992 June 313/4 For general DIY work, we think that it is sensible to wear eye protectors, dustmask, and gloves. b. Forming adjectives. 1612 J. Taylor Ded. sig. A1v This Kingdom weeps..With..eye-bedewing verse. 1889 1 May 1/1 A deep, soul-stirring, eye-bedewing conviction that the heart of the American people is tender to the appeal of American tradition. a1644 F. Quarles (1645) i. 4 Heart-corrupting, eye-beguiling Gold. 1705 A. Symson 318 The eye-beguiling bands Of naturall affection hold as fast As fetters do a Pris'ner. 2005 (Nexis) 19 May 45 Time and again, Brieger's eye-beguiling imagery communicated with compelling power and intensity. 1799 M. Robinson II. xxxiv. 67 Deck the surrounding objects in eye-bewildering splendours. 1834 T. Carlyle ii. ix. 67/1 Eye-bewildering chiaroscuro. 1995 M. Z. Bradley ii. 29 An eye-bewildering tangle of curves and circles and peculiar symbols. 1595 E. C. xxxiv. sig. C4v An eye-bewitching vision thee in seeming, That shadow-like flyes from a louers eyes. 1637 G. Gillespie iv. ix. 46 The..eye-bewitching farding, of fleshly shew. 1840 T. Hood 321 The whole picture such an eye-bewitching brunette, that it still haunts me! 2012 H. S. Syme v. 253 Every twitch of the actor's body is transformed into yet another facet of Giulio Romano's eye-bewitching art. 1642 J. Milton 34 Some eye-brightning electuary of knowledge, and foresight. 1895 27 Apr. 33/3 To feel the value of almost six sixpences in her hand and these all her own, was indeed cheek-flushing and eye-brightening riches. 1992 K. Walas v. 78 Choose ‘eye-brightening’ colors like gray, black, and midnight blue. 1596 J. Davies cxxii. sig. C7 The strange-eye-dazeling-admirable sight. 1814 W. Scott I. iii. 33 The splendid pages of Froissart, with his heart-stirring and eye-dazzling descriptions of war and of tournaments, were among his chief favourites. View more context for this quotation 2000 26 Jan. 80/4 The lavish set designs are a little too busy, and the effects sequences sometimes more eye-dazzling than effective. 1602 W. Basse iii. sig. F3 Old care shall clothe young loue as gray as freere, When him with eie deceiuing Anticks couers. 1769 D'Alenzon tr. ‘Hoamchi-Vam’ I. 79 The flowery outom-chu..made the vale appear a scene of eye-deceiving enchantment. 1941 Feb. 19/2 There are earnest workers who make eye-deceiving synthetic grass out of straw. 2011 J. C. Wright vi. 110 The dome was painted in an eye-deceiving illusion of early twilight skies. 1595 F. Sabie sig. C4 Her eie-delighting shape hath won mine hart. 1757 J. Dyer ii. 76 The tribe of salts..eye-delighting hues Produce. 1887 J. J. Hissey 87 Windmills..always charming features in the prospect, life-giving and eye-delighting. 2006 (Nexis) 24 Aug. 36 These drawings have a brutal edge to them: they are stark, stripped down, devoid of eye-delighting ornament. 1788 J. Hurdis 34 Thick-set With eye-distracting jewels. 1850 July 288 In the midst of all this eye-distracting pleasure are stationed bands of musicians. 2005 P. Briggs (ed. 4) iii. x. 198 The lake view..[is] compromised by the decidedly eye-distracting presence of the new Amhara Development Building. 1929 22 Mar. 12/6 A thorough testing of the ancient theory of a deadening left hook versus an eye-glazing right hand. 1977 14 Sept. c21/1 The proceedings..ran on for an eye-glazing three-and-a-half hours. 2012 Oct. 68/1 Campaign finance is a deeply boring subject, so eye-glazing that one might almost suspect a conspiracy to make it that way. 1609 J. Davies sig. Bv Men if they spit doe choose the fowlest place Where to bestow their eie-offending fleame. 1801 W. Winstanley iv. 69 The deep bronze of eye-offending impudence. 2010 J. S. Prybyla iii. 44 Składkowski accidentally met my father and asked whether the eye-offending shed had, in fact, been removed. 1806 J. Grahame 77 A melancholy, eye-o'erflowing look. 1904 J. C. Murray 78 A thousand painful throes will start, In blushing brow and eye-o'erflowing meres. 1942 18 297/1 We don't mean the 26 eye-overflowing Hurrell photographs that make the new Date Book a matchless glamour gallery. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1590) i. ii. sig. B7 Medows, enamelled with all sorts of ey-pleasing floures. 1677 T. Gale iv. 446 His spirit hath garnished..the Heavens, i.e. decked them with those eye-pleasing gloriose lights. 1869 15 May Some one edifice..which, being almost universally followed, has produced this eye-pleasing result. 2003 Feb. 117 The old Georgian stone terraces that sweep all over the centre of the town make it probably the most eye-pleasing city in the British Isles. a1644 F. Quarles (1645) v. 23 Full heaps of eye-rejoicing gold. 1884 M. B. Betham-Edwards viii. 72 All these eye-rejoicing, heart-stirring sights and sounds were lost to the rich governor of Beechholme Park as he sat in his dreary counting-house from morning till night. 1811 C. Lamb in Jan. 428 What we have read and what we have dreamed of..rise up and crowd in upon us such eye-scaring portraits of the man of blood, that our pen is absolutely forestalled. 1834 Nov. 703/2 True Love of Truth struggling..with temptations and trials,..and now blasting the brain and withering the heart with flashings too eye-searing not to be real. 1900 Jan. 280 What a country!.. Red hot rocks, and white hot sand, eye-searing glare, coarse, sapless grass, mimosa thorn [etc.]! 2005 Nov. 86/1 Braving Tehran's eye-searing smog and notorious traffic, Rahimzadeh passes women in a startling variety of hijab. 1765 J. Garner 93 The Eye-starting Gems of virtuous Affliction. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Relig. Musings in 144 Fear, the wild-visag'd, pale, eye-starting wretch. 1904 (Ackworth Old Scholar's Assoc.) No. 23. 69 The eye-starting astonishment on the face of a boy in front of him so upset the lecturer's gravity that he could not proceed for some minutes. 1822 Nov. 317 We are far from denying that it is a neatly printed (though eye-trying) little edition, of a very convenient pocket-size. 1887 14 May 703/1 Colours worked on highly glazed eye-trying paper. 1997 (Nexis) 5 Apr. d3 The cover story..is merely a long scroll of type that is, without any graphics or color, an eye-trying read. c. Forming nouns of action. 1553 T. Wilson i. f. 47v By suche..good iye castyng: they shall alwaies be able..to speake what they ought. 1873 R. Browning ii. 98 Monsieur Léonce Miranda ate her up With eye-devouring. C3. 1592 W. Warner (rev. ed.) vii. xxxvii. 168 She eie-blur'd, and adiudged Praies the dastard'st. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas (new ed.) ii. iv. 53 Th' eye-bold Eagle neuer fears the flash..of Lightning. 1818 J. Keats i. 21 Sweeping, eye-earnestly, through almond vales. 1939 J. Joyce 91 That eyebold earbig noseknaving gutthroat. 1654 E. Gayton ii. iv. 47 He forgot his Table, till eye-checkt to his duty. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V ccclxii, in (1878) IV. 191 Amazement but Enthralls Eye-Charm'd Spectators. 1845 P. J. Bailey (ed. 2) 234 Eye-reasoning man. 1853 E. K. Kane (1856) xlii. 382 Eye-seen growth. 1882 June 197/2 It was soon discovered by her eye-charmed New York audience that this magnificent singing animal was a very incomplete artist. c. Parasynthetic and similative. 1822 R. Richardson I. xii. 425 Within the temple..is the representation of Osiris with his eye-headed sceptre in one hand, and a sickle in the other. 1875 E. H. Knight II. 819/2 Eye-headed Bolt, a form of bolt having an eye at the head-end. 1992 Dec. 13/2 You need: Beads of different sizes, shapes and materials,..pin-headed and eye-headed Ear wires or clips [etc.]. 1806 G. Shaw VI. 225 On the middle of each wing is an eye-shaped spot. 1932 E. M. Forster in 25 June 894/1 What so took me were the elongated eye-shaped openings in the roofs of the houses. 2007 (Nexis) 7 May 38 The shaman wore an eye-shaped amulet on a leather thong around his neck. C4. the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > pleasing appearance > [noun] 1916 Jan. 90 (advt.) From a standpoint of eye appeal, ‘Pathfinder the Great’ is a poem in steel—one of the most ultra-beautiful and sumptuous cars ever built. 1951 M. McLuhan 63/1 Color tempted him to accept the appetizing eye appeal of the food ads. 2003 Summer 170/2 A fragrant sugar syrup flavours the fruit, and a pretty presentation gives it eye appeal. the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > eyeball 1549 R. Crowley xvii. sig. D.iv Kepe me as the eie apple, and vnder thy wynges me hyde. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz ii. ix. 81 If a party hath received a Wound in the Eye Apple..then [etc.] 1704 tr. J. Nieuhof Voy. Brasil in A. Churchill & J. Churchill II. 14/2 The Eyes [of the Chameleon or Gekko] are very large, starting out of the Head, with long and small Eye-Apples. 1825 29 Oct. 177/1 The Germans speak of the eye-apple, in the same sense as we use eye-ball. 1874 Feb. 122 Mr. and Mrs. Stephen were nearly as glad to hear it as if a fortune had been left them; for Tom was just the eye-apple of both. 1943 B. Smith xiv. 108 ‘Don't tell Mother. She doesn't know how Sissy lives and Sissy is her eye-apple.’ 1973 T. Kinsella 51 Attached into the darkness by every sense—the ear pounding—peering eye-apples, unseeing. 2001 B. Holland 181 She was always their eye-apple, with ‘only child’ written all over her, so it comes as a shock to learn she had seven younger siblings. 1895 A. C. Haddon 36 The six rays are but a symmetrical coalescence of two pairs of eye-areas. [Note] I have adopted the term ‘eye-area’ to denote the eye device which includes the eye, the eye-lashes, and often the cheek-fold of that side. 1869 2 575 In Spanish, the liliputian photograph is called ‘niñacita del ojo’; which means ‘little eye-baby’. 1890 E. Coues ii. iv. 271 Our own reflection, diminished to the size of the ‘eye-baby’. the mind > possession > supply > storage > [noun] > place where anything is or may be stored > other spec. 1938 21 June 1/3 A proposal for an ‘eye-bank’—to store donated eyes for sight-restoring operations similar to the method used in preserving blood for transfusion—was discussed in Philadelphia medical circles today. 1959 13 Mar. 15/2 A foetal tissue bank is being established at the Royal Marsden Hospital, comparable to the eye banks. 2006 2 July 37/1 Eye surgeons have been told the Eye Bank, at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, can no longer supply eye tissue for transplants. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > for eye-drops 1790 W. Rowley 36 Externally, the cold eyebath and astringent lotions are proper. 1848 H. R. Forster 137 An eye-bath. 1891 11 Apr. 843/1 Three cases of scleritis and episcleritis which he was able to cure completely in a very short time by means of the medicated galvanic eye-bath. 1935 R. Macaulay 154 But you have..left behind you..a toothbrush, and a bottle of eye lotion with eye bath. 2005 May 79 Add an eyebath for removing that tiny chip that always seems to find its way round your safety glasses. the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > for the eyes > colour for lids and brows 1912 C. Mackenzie xliii. 413 Pervading all the paper..was a faint theatre scent. The very ink was like eye-black. 1927 20 Mar. 1 The police found little besides some lipstick and eyeblack. 1963 I. Fleming xvi. 273 Now you've ruined my eye-black. 2004 J. Denby vi. 37 I waited for my punishment in as martyred a way as I could muster, even going to the lengths of..rubbing the crusty remains of my eye-black round my eyes so they'd look hollow. 1800 S. T. Coleridge tr. F. Schiller v. iii. 192 Therefore are they eye-blights, Thorns in your foot-path. 1855 W. Howitt 119 He persuaded him at times that he had the eye-blight. 1863 2 108/2 The gold-seekers suffered severely from eyeblight, owing to the concentrated blaze of the sunlight, reflected from the steep sides of the ravine. 1905 26 Oct. 36/4 The medical members of the Central Board of Health expressed the opinion that eye blight was almost entirely, if not absolutely, conveyed from patient to patient by flies. 1955 24 Feb. 21/1 With eye blight about stockowners should be prepared for it. 1998 B. Seymour xxvi. 337 She was sick with ‘eye-blight’. the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > [noun] > moment or instant 1838 W. Herbert v. 119 A word, an eye-blink oft Has turn'd the most benighted of mankind to orient hopes. 1852 E. Thomson tr. King Alfred's Bede in II. 249 In the time that he is within he is not touched by the storm of the winter; but that is..an eye-blink [OE an eagan bryhtm], and the least space; and he soon comes from winter to winter again. 1867 W. H. Dixon I. xii. 143 And in an eye-blink, Carter fell to the ground dead. 1910 Dec. 756/1 The suit case was marked R.A.G. and, in conjunction with the great-coat, told Strickland a whole three-years' history in one eye-blink. 1950 63 57 The decrement of eye-blinks may be interpreted as a compensatory phenomenon. 2003 J. Scalzi xiii. 188 [The] supermassive stars..will blaze up and then blaze out in supernova blasts, all in the space of a relative eyeblink. 1864 12 571 Mrs. Malloy rather increased than allayed the general anxiety touching his pursuits..by much head-shaking and eye-blinking when his name was mentioned. 1891 29 Oct. 2/1 It is a pity that in these days of sham prudery and eye-blinking such conversations cannot be reproduced. 1971 8 161/2 Taylor and Brand offer finger movements, Chisholm gives arm-raisings and eye-blinkings [as examples of basic actions]. 2004 13 May 15/1 Common motor tics [of Tourette Syndrome] include eye-blinking, neck-jerking and shoulder-shrugging. 1762 T. Smollett I. i. 10 Snap go the finger-braces—crack went the eye-blocks. 1842 R. Burn 139/2 Poulie estropée à œillet, eye block. a1884 E. H. Knight Suppl. 323/1 Eye block, a tackle block with an eye or loop above, for shackle or lashing. 1949 Nov. 213/2 The free end of the sheet is passed through four eye blocks attached to the boom on the spacings indicated. 1835 T. Wade 90 The blue, the fair eye-blue of Morn. 1845 P. J. Bailey (ed. 2) 221 Within, the dome Was eyeblue sapphire. 1911 F. L. May 38 Blue, blue, eye-blue, Thy face a fairy's cup. 2008 Winter 34 O real rising toward eye-blue stained glass where a dove spreads an enigma's wings between two discreet roses! the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > socket of eye 1598 J. Florio Rotola del ginocchio, the whirle bone ordained to cover the ioint of the knee, the eie-bone,..the pattle-bone. 1678 J. P. tr. J. Johnstone ii. 49/1 Some say Wasps are bred within theirs eye-bone, and fly out thence. 1793 T. Holcroft tr. J. C. Lavater (abridged ed.) vii. 47 Eyebones with defined..firm arches. 1852 iii. 43 The sixth is a short, flat, broad muscle, arising from the cheek-bone, near its union with the eye-bone. 1916 C. S. Plumb xiv. 182 The head should be long and bony with good eye bones and good heavy jaw. 1965 8 Nov. 13/7 For eyes there is their French Beige shadow with Antique Bisque for highlighting the eyebone. 2000 (Nexis) 20 Mar. 1 b They pulverized her cheekbone, causing the left side of her face to cave in. Part of her eyebone was driven into her sinuses. 1674 J. Flamsteed Let. 13 Oct. in (1995) III. 310 I am very glad to heare that you concerne your selfe so much with glasses as to cause Mr Cox to grind you a payre of plano-convexes for your eye box. 1876 A. E. Beach 240 Snow Spectacles... The sides of each eyebox are perforated with minute holes, in order that the wearer can get a side view of objects. 1903 1/2 When one looks into the eye-box M, he sees simultaneously the photometer screens A and B. 1992 R. B. Wood in M. A. Karim ix. 400 The optical system operates over a 30° display FOV with a 4.75 in. horizontal eyebox. 2012 J. Lee 330/3 A big eye-box means generous eye relief, even at high magnification. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun] 1616 J. Davies Divers Elegies in sig. D7v The Iudge..Powders his words in Eye-brine. 1866 14 Apr. 58/3 Her voice kept rising till it reached a very high pitch, and then culminated in a hysterical shower of eye-brine. 1993 A. Bermel (1996) ii. 128 Ayckbourn takes his time uncovering plaintive depths in the relationships as well as in the individual souls, while never soaking them in eye-brine. 1927 E. Hemingway 101 On the walls of the houses were stencilled eye-bugging portraits of Mussolini. 1937 L. C. Douglas xi. 218 With many long, cheek-distending, eye-bugging exhalations. 1994 No. 58. 35/3 The role..was a neon-sign version of a hard, nasty bitch. That, combined with the spectacular eye-bugging sexiness, made her seem almost monstrous. 1978 14 Mar. 7/5 Sex..is more blatant, and more is on the way. ‘Eye candy’, as one network executive calls it, is proliferating as Westerns and police shows once did. 1986 D. G. Kehl & D. Heidt in D. Seyler & C. Boltz (ed. 2) 211 This ad..features an elegantly dressed woman with conspicuous cleavage, which advertising executives reportedly refer to as ‘eye candy’. 1994 16 Nov. i. 28/7 The success of Stargate has stunned the Hollywood establishment. Trashed in reviews as ‘eye-candy’, the partly French-financed film adopted the novel promotional strategy of advertising on-line. 1997 6 July j 6/5 Not only is he mega-talented, he is eye candy for those of us ladies who like to watch the game. 2003 18 Apr. 103/4 The cartoon-like graphics are pure eye-candy—sumptuously smooth and lovingly detailed. 2010 P. Murray 61 The dearth of eye candy in the staffroom doesn't do much to brighten the atmosphere. 1799 A. F. M. Willich xii. 607 The common eye-cases, used by travellers, and by artificers who work in substances that cause much dust to fly about, are, for the following reasons, improper. 1826 W. Kirby & W. Spence III. xxxi. 250 Just below the base of the antennæ-case you may discern the eye-cases (Ophthalmo-theca). 1903 11 161 Vertex of head and upper part of clypeus full, rounded, and extending up above the eye cases. 1978 32 181 One pair of long, attenuate, interocular setae present; these borne on moderately large tubercles located medially on inner edge of each eye case. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] a1669 J. Howard (1674) ii. i. 11 They to express their passions, instead of languishing, eye-casts and sighs do stare and groan. 1672 J. Howard ii. 20 Ther's two of them that make Their Love together, By languishing Eye-Casts. 1875 R. Browning iv. 122 One mere eye-cast at the character Of Who made these and gave man sense to boot, Had dissipated once and evermore. 2010 (Nexis) 12 Apr. As taller people have a downward eyecast when speaking to shorter colleagues, they are instinctively perceived to have authority and confidence. 1885 21 304 Recommendation of an eye chart. 1932 Feb. 46/2 When a novel eye chart devised by a New York firm is laid on a table..it gives a more practical test of his new glasses than does the conventional array of scrambled letters. 1978 C. Trillin 35 A barbecue joint whose main dining room has no decorations beyond an eye chart. 2006 19 June 82/1 Later that year, my eyesight changed so dramatically I couldn't even see the big letter E on the top of the eye chart. 1933 L. G. D. Acland in 14 Oct. 15/7 Eye-clip, to cut the wool away from round a sheep's eyes. If this is not done, the wool, especially on merinos, is apt to grow over the eyes and make the sheep wool-blind. Some people speak of eye-clipping as Winking. 1953 B. Stronach viii. 54 Our next job was to eye clip the lambs, for many of them were wool-blind. 1978 D. G. Jardine 46 They are brought down to the station..and the wethers eyeclipped if this is required. 1930 L. G. D. Acland 1st Ser. vi. 128 Merino sheep..were not handled so often for eye-clipping and so on. 1950 Oct. 349/3 Through eye clipping, wool blindness is avoided. 1978 F. Preston 100 Mustering, drafting and eye-clipping kept all hands busy. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > [noun] > staring or gazing > meeting another's gaze 1942 31 560/2 Who had the most direct eye contact with his listeners? 1965 M. Argyle & J. Dean in 28 289 Without eye-contact.., people do not feel they are fully in communication. 1984 W. Boyd i. iv. 45 The girl came to recognise him, and they would make a long and direct eye-contact throughout their transaction. 2008 12 May 115/2 She leans forward, establishes meaningful eye contact, tucks her fingers under her chin to denote close attention. 1972 28 Sept. 614/1 The mechanics of eye-controlled apparatus (applicable to wheel chairs). 1993 9 Sept. 8/3 Technologies such as sophisticated speech and handwriting recognition, and even eye-controlled cursors, will form the basis of advanced user interfaces. 2013 26 Mar. b5/2 To show off its technology, Tobii built what it calls the first eye-controlled arcade game. 1870 4 500 An eye copy, however carefully and painfully executed, can never be relied upon as being an exact reproduction of the original. 2008 C. Allen in iii. 77 A meticulous examination by Smith showed him where he had gone wrong in his first reading based on Willie Peppé's eye copy. 1640 tr. J. A. Comenius (new ed.) lxxvi. (heading) Of Opticks [eye-craft], and painting. 1861 16 Feb. 103/2 Rag-sorting has now become quite a skilful handicraft, or rather eyecraft. 1900 F. J. Gould in S. Coit vii. 172 When it is remembered that technique was the means by which religious aspiration found embodiment in the architecture of the Parthenon or of St Peter's, it may begin to dawn..that handicraft and eyecraft may lead us from the material to the spiritual. 1976 12 July 85/1 ‘Silent Movie’ holds less than ‘Young Frankenstein’ for grownups, apart from Anne Bancroft's brilliant eyecraft. 1820 J. Keats Ode to Psyche in 118 Tender eye-dawn of aurorean love. 1925 G. P. Krapp I. iv. 228 The impression of popular speech..is often assisted by what may be termed ‘eye dialect’, in which the convention violated is one of the eye, not of the ear. Thus a dialect writer often spells a word like front as frunt, or face as fase, or picture as pictsher, not because he intends to indicate here a genuine difference of pronunciation, but the spelling is merely a friendly nudge to the reader. 1965 40 230 Which of the most fastidious elocutionists could object to the vocalized result of enuff, probably the oftenest repeated of Capp's eye-dialect usages? 1993 22 Apr. 20/1 Received Pronunciation..has been satirised as the eye dialect, in which shouting is represented as ‘shiteing’. 2000 J. R. Rickford & R. J. Rickford ii. ii. 25 Its deftly timed delivery of Spoken Soul—conveyed primarily through pronunciation spellings (mo for ‘more’ and Ah for ‘I’) and eye dialect (uh for ‘a’). 1762 Feb. 113 This flying physician..has cured more blind Popes, Emperors,..and persons of all ranks, than ever were cured by all the Boerhaaves, Sloans,..and all other eye-doctors that ever lived. 1885 E. D. Hale in Mar. 558/2 They are as good as any eye-doctor. 1974 P. White 9 Nov. (1994) xii. 447 My eyes have improved with the rest, though an eye doctor tells me I am a borderline glaucoma case. 2009 W. Safire in 13 Sept. 14/2 Anytime I hear this word [sc. ‘optically’] used in any context outside of graphic arts, my eye doctor's office or the field of astronomy, my B.S. detector goes into high alert. 1934 L. G. D. Acland in 20 Jan. 15 Eye dog, dog that commands sheep by his eye. I daresay he acts by the same instinct that makes a pointer or setter ‘stand’ to game. 1963 R. Casey 196 What's more, he keeps all eye dogs—hardly ever bark in their lives. They could work sheep with barely a sound on a clear night. 1993 M. Gee (1994) 65 You work like an eye dog, he says—she must find her way, quick-stepping, back to her friends or else she's lost. the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > socket of eye a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil (1957) iii. x. 15 Of hys e dolp the flowand blude and attir He wysch away. 1840 23 May 303/1 Within the cavity was the embryo, which increased in size during the passage of the ovum along the oviduct, two dark eye dots were then perceptible. 1878 VIII. 816/1 Eye-specks or eye-dots met with in Medusæ, Annelidæ, etc. 1906 15 42 We turn our attention to the rudimentary eyes of the leech, or the starfish, or to the multitude of eye dots which are scattered over the surface of some of the marine slugs. 2010 J. Medina 33 Vision begins developing about four weeks after conception, the fetus forming little eye-dots on either side of her tiny head. 1873 E. Spon 1st Ser. 422 Some grainers use small brushes called maple eye-dotters..for forming the eyes. 1890 16 78/1 Eye-dotters that produce the appearance of the eyes and heart of several hard-woods. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun] the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > drops > [noun] the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the eyes 1600 W. Shakespeare iv. iii. 216 That tyranny..Would..haue washt his knife, With gentle eie-drops. 1762 30 Nov. (advt.) Mr. Neeler's..Fever Pills, Eye Drops, Family Salve, and Strengthening Plaisters. 1806 27 Apr. 3 (advt.) I then made trial of Dr. Saul's Golden Eye Drops and Pills. 1938–9 393/2 Eye Drop Bottle... Eye Drop Tubes. 1961 May 95 Improve the whites [of eyes] with..French eye drops, deep blue in colour. 2009 N. Cave (2010) v. 33 He has a medical condition called blepharitis or granulated eyelids or something and he has run out of steroid eye drops. the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > equipment for applying medicaments > [noun] > for eye-drops 1891 5 Dec. 486 He mused thus sitting by the wayside puffing bits of dust with an eye-dropper he chanced to have. 1926 J. Black xii. 160 The sack contained his ‘plant’, an eye dropper with a hypodermic needle soldered to it, and a small paper of morphine. 1962 J. Braine ii. 33 I..poured her out her usual medicinal dose of brandy... Sometimes I made jokes about using an eye-dropper next time. 2009 Winter 74/2 With an eyedropper, I drip about 1 teaspoon of combing milk on the pile of wool, turning it over as I drip. 1686 R. Blome i. 128/1 First, The Ten-Cross, which belongs to that side of the Staff called the Ten-Side, where the Graduations begin at about 3 Degrees, and proceeding towards the Center, or Eye-end, encrease (by 10 Minutes) to 10 Degrees. 1790 (Royal Soc.) 80 154 This piece of mechanism in the eye-end of the telescope. 1866 VIII. 645 The operator, who keeps drawing the sewn cloth off at the eye-end of the needle. 1926 11 157 The soft brown discoloration either at the stalk or at the eye end of the fruit. 1947 23 518/1 X-rays showed the eye end of a sewing needle inside the spinal canal. 2006 (Nexis) 8 Nov. a4 If people own modern telescopes with solar filters, the filter has to go over the end furthest from the eye, not the eye end. 1769 H. Jones 30 Eye-filling object that employs the bowl, The feast of frolick, and the whim of soul. 1900 11 June 10/3 Mr. Panmure Gordon's eye-filling bay gelding Forrester was third. 1961 16 Nov. 8/3 ‘Ben Hur’ is both eye-filling and a serious work. 1998 Feb. 69/1 A mix of maple, gum, beech, oak, and pine provides an eye-filling autumn spectrum of resplendent colors. the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > blinkers 1611 R. Cotgrave at Oeilleres A bridle with eye-flaps for a fore-horse. 1765 G. A. Stevens (new ed.) ii. 11 A lady in this dress looks hooded like a horse, with eye-flaps,—to keep them from looking one way or the other. 1846 T. Ross tr. Count St. Marie v. 173 The bridle has small eyeflaps and a swivel bit. 1966 W. Manus i. 4 Genuine horse blinders swiped from a riding stable in City... Now I removed the eye-flaps, wanting a good look at Alegre. 2006 R. Federman 82 I have never understood why we put eye-flaps on horses. 1811 Feb. 48/2 The eye-flies, so often supposed to occasion it, produce a transient and sharp pain in the eye, but never, I believe, a lasting inflammation. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence I. App. 8 A very minute black fly..which, because it flies in swarms into the eyes..is called the eye-fly. 1959 30 Oct. 15/1 Blackfly or buffalo gnat, but coming to be known in West Africa by the ominous name of ‘eye flies’. 2001 K. M. Kocan in M. W. Service 30/2 Other Diptera, such as eye-flies (eye-gnats), are also known to be mechanical transmitters of anaplasmosis. 1551 R. Record i. Def. B ij b A figure moche like to a tunne fourme, saue that it is sharp couered [1574 cornered] at both the endes..and that figure is named an yey [1574 eye] fourme. 1688 R. Holme iii. ix. 377/2 An Eclipse or Egge Oval, is a long round, having one end more sharp than the other: If long and small at both ends alike, then it is termed a Tun Oval, or Tun Form; if sharp at both ends, an Eye Form. 1997 D. Gaze I. 331/1 This intensely and radiantly green sculpture, which is in the shape of a broken triangle, incorporates a pointed oval eye form in its upper half. 1826 11 243 When the frame is folded together..[the bolt] shoots into a small hole in the edge of one of the eye frames, and keeps the frame compact. ?1881 (?1885) 47 Optician..Eye Frame Maker. 1943 June 72/2 Subway Spectacles, in which battery-powered bulbs are set in the eye frames, make it possible for readers to provide their own light in dim-outs. 2002 G. Nila 8 Fitted between the aluminum frames and velveteen cushions were two curved elliptical glass lenses within each eye frame. 1946 A. Blau ix. 134 The reader may also recall the reference to ‘reading’ of paintings in Chapter III, and the important role the direction of eye-gaze may play. 1972 31 Aug. 443/2 The autistic child..is likely to turn away (eye gaze avoidance) when other people look at him. 1986 (Nexis) 3 Sept. The first production version of the remarkable eye gaze computer [which]..offers improved communications for severely disabled people. 1995 28 Nov. 20/1 Eye-gaze detection systems rely on light-emitting diodes in the camera bouncing light off the photographer's eye to sense its angle. 2009 24 Aug. 28/3 Surfacing, free divers frequently suffer something called a samba, described..as ‘a bilateral motor tremor, eye gaze deviation, and fine head bobbing’. 1973 27 Jan. 16/6 25p for the Eye Gel and 17p for the nail polish. 2013 (Nexis) 8 Sept. 33 If you're prone to dehydrated skin, it especially shows around the eyes—so put off the ageing process with this eye gel. 1590 E. Spenser ii. vii. sig. S2v To them, that couet such eye-glutting gaine, Proffer thy giftes. 1997 (Nexis) 16 Oct. The result is a great James adaptation,..maybe a notch better than the coming, eye-glutting British film of ‘The Wings of the Dove’. 1805 M. Lewis Jrnl. 24 July in (1987) IV. 423 Our trio of pests still invade and obstruct us on all occasions, these are the Musquetoes eye knats and prickley pears. 1944 R. Matheson xvii. 421 The eye gnats, Hippelates spp., often occur in great numbers, especially in parts California and the southern United States. 1971 W. M. Rogoff in R. E. Pfadt (ed. 2) xxi. 611 Among the Diptera are..the many disease-carrying and discomfort-producing mosquitoes, sand flies, black flies.., eye gnats, horse flies, deer flies, and tsetse flies. 2000 R. A. Rubin (2009) xxxiii. 150 The springs had dried up, and the heat made the ridge crests shimmer and the eye-gnats swarm. 1828 24 Sept. An uncivilized, ear biting, eye gouging people. 1875 30 Dec. Eye-gouging. Edward McCormick..is accused of having destroyed the eye of Edward Sheehan. 1987 J. R. Conlin in M. Dubofsky & W. Van Tine v. 118 The miners fought back with eye-gouging ferocity. 2013 (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Sport section) 112 Headbutting, biting and eye-gouging are all forbidden but punches, kicks, knee and elbow strikes are all fair currency in the ring. 1861 Mar. 182 Slight cloudy membranes are observed near the posterior pole of the lens, which are easily looked through by means of the ophthalmoscope, the eye-ground being distinctly seen at the bottom. 1900 25 Oct. 196 The eye grounds..were normal. 1987 W. Percy (1989) ii. iv. 112 I've gotten very good with eyegrounds. I can tell more about you with one quick look than with a complete physical. 2005 40 784/1 Repeated eye ground examinations revealed severe bilateral endophthalmitis. 1826 44 152 Eye-guards, fastened by a band round the head, have been employed by persons engaged in breaking stones for the roads. 1884 128/1 Gauze Wire Eye-Guards. 1925 Jan. 42/2 The shield operates on a joint which permits instant adjustment to any position for use as either a mirror or eye guard. 2004 July (Irish Culture Suppl.) 17/3 You have to wear eyeguards for protection. 1729 R. Bradley xi. 68 The Top of the Instrument should be like that of the Handle of a Spade, either with an Eye handle or a Crutch. 1880 (G. Turner) 24 The spades above No. 4 have Eye Handles. 1939 25 Nov. 794/3 Red burnished wheel-made and well-fired buff hand-made wares, the latter with envelope ledge-handles and eye-handles, are typical Middle Bronze I forms. 2005 J. Schrantz 86 She inserted a stick through the eye-handles of the pot and tipped it over, turning it upside down to drain to prevent rust. a1586 Sir P. Sidney (1593) iii. sig. Hh6 Eye hopes deceitefull proue. 1820 5 July Mr. Parnell complained of an omission in the items for an Eye Hospital. 1968 91 249 University Department of Ophthalmology, Manchester Royal Eye Hospital. 2001 L. Mitton 16 (caption) There were several specialist eye hospitals in London. 1600 J. Lane 110 Daigne with your eye-lamps to behold this booke. 1671 i. 75 Were there in thy squint eyes found True native sparks of Diamond; As they are duller sure I am, Than th' Eye-Lamps of a dying man. 1938 Jan. 193 Turn your eyelamps inside out, Twist your mouth and tongue to shout. 2007 Sanmi-Ajiki lviii. 333 The eye-lamp also incurred a disadvantage on the personality of the ruler however. This reality was that the highway ruler had no place to hide. 1713 E. Wells ii. iv. 135 That which is next to the Eye, is thence distinguish'd by the Name of the Eye-Lens. 1871 J. N. Lockyer §468 We get an inverted image at..the focus of the eye-lens. 1879 S. Newcomb & E. S. Holden 63 The eye-lens E receives the pencil of rays, and deviates it to the observer's eye. 1963 23 Feb. 792 The report of succinic dehydrogenase activity in eye lens homogenates. 1975 B. V. Barlow iv. 61 The Kellner eyepiece is, in effect, an achromatic Ramsden in which the singlet eye lens is replaced by an achromatic doublet. 2008 A. J. Kiss in P. A. Tsonis v. 49/1 The stability of their eye lens is based on long-term adaptations. 1938 7 Nov. 3/2 1938 Syracuse Herald 7 Nov. 3/2 (advt.) Eye-lifts are masks of featherweight fabric, and fit over eyes and cheekbones. Each lift is saturated in a special solution. 1944 Aug. 366/2 Dab of iodine still present from ‘eye-lift’ work. 1965 31 Jan. How long is a woman recuperating? ‘A face lift takes ten days, an eye lift three days’. 2002 C. Kelly (2003) 275 She gently pulled the skin around her eyes taut, trying to imagine what she'd look like after an eye lift. ?1593 G. Fletcher tr. Lucian in 57 His frowning smyles are graced by his beard, His eye-light Sunne-like, shrowded is in one. 1658 T. Bancroft viii. 84 That rare Lady,..Whose eye-light, breath, & virgin-blush, did show How starres do shine, Balme smells, & Roses glow. 1824 J. Bowring & H. S. Van Dyk 59 The brightest of stars is but twilight Compared with that beautiful eye-light. 1869 J. Martineau 2nd Ser. 378 Eyelight comes out to mingle with the daylight that comes in. 1946 Apr. 268 The use of a magenta or red gelatin on the eye-light assists in photographing subjects with eyes of this type. 1997 May 31/1 The agency wanted a classic Hollywood look with hard lights creating dramatic shadows—l used a key light, a fill light, an eye light, and a hair light. 1866 J. Z. Laurence & R. C. Moon xv. 119 Artificial eyes, vulgarly called ‘eye limpets’, are constructed of glass or enamel. 1891 J. S. Farmer II. 362/1 Eye-limpet, an artificial eye. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > place where view obtained > [noun] > hole or window the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [noun] > for looking through 1803 R. Southey tr. III. 304 He wore a green surcoat over his breast-plate, fastened with green strings and eye-loops of gold. 1866 Nov. 543 On its walls [may still be traced] the eye-loops for arrows. 1971 July 62/2 The eye loop of a fine-wire fly hook may be pulled open or even broken if you strike too hard. 2011 C. Terrill (2012) 56 I clipped the handle of Inyo's Flexi lead to the eye-loop on my pack. the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > lotion or bath > [noun] > specific the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > preparations for treating specific parts > [noun] > for the eyes 1797 28 Apr. (advt.) Leathes's celebrated eye lotion. 1830 5 Dec. 170/3 ‘What is the matter, dear?’ said Bagshaw. ‘Your eye-lotion, love.’ 1886 18 Dec. 655/2 (advt.) Harness' Eye Battery... Away with eye-glasses and eye-lotions. 1935 R. Macaulay 154 But you have..left behind you..a toothbrush, and a bottle of eye lotion with eye bath. 1943 J. L. Hunt & A. G. Pringle 30 Eye lotion, wines (only enough of them to provide an eye bath). 2013 20 Apr. 75 At night, if feeling hot and bothered, pop a soothing eye lotion in the fridge for extra cold impact on puffy eyes. 1857 F. F. Broderip 224 There is nothing new under the sun; ‘eye love’ is still popular among the youth of Britain, employed in cultivating moustaches and extending crinoline. 2012 T. Apter ii. 26 They gaze at each other like romantic lovers in an activity called ‘eye love’ because of the mutual watching and the quick rush of reward each has in seeing the face of the other. 1913 8 Dec. 3/3 For street purposes eye make-up is never a success. No matter how carefully it is applied it never defies detection. 1979 S. Marcus iv. 61 The news on hemlines, fullness of skirts, and the newest eye makeup. 2004 J. Wilson 89 She wore lots of black eye make-up and deep red lipstick. 1831 Jan. 68 Their [sc. maps'] deep impression upon what we may be permitted to call the eye-memory, is the only thing that can keep the continually intersecting lines of history clear and distinct. 1880 20 Mar. 3/2 Closely akin to quickness of perception is eye-memory, or ‘the impressing by will on memory things which we have seen’. 1985 26 77/1 Eye-memory, a faculty of visual perception that is a subtle blending or combination of memory and perception, can be enhanced to bring before one vividly anything they have ever seen. 2006 B. R. Chowdhury xiii. 40 Our eye memory is stronger by 20 times than the ear memory since the nerves connecting brains to eye are stronger by 20 times than nerves connecting ears to brain. 1888 J. Jastrow in Sept. 603 An eye-minded person should read, should reduce everything to visual terms. 1897 (Monogr. Suppl.) 2 i. 18 Some persons are ear-minded—they think most readily in auditory (‘phonographic’) images; others are eye-minded, thinking in visual (‘photographic’) images. 1901 E. B. Titchener I. i. 196 The purely eye-minded man would recognise persons, things and places by their look, and would recall events as a panorama of views. 1964 Mar. 129/2 Minnelli is eye-minded and his sense of artistic design developed early. 2006 (Nexis) 25 Aug. 28 Modern societies have become ever more ‘eye-minded’ and fearful or contemptuous of touch. 1888 J. Jastrow in Sept. 597 (title) Eye-mindedness and ear-mindedness. 1924 7 72/2 A class talk first brings out the difference between ear-mindedness and eye-mindedness and the causes of poor spelling. 2011 A. Goody iii. 59 His sense of ‘eyemindedness’ underpins Dos Passos's montage method in Manhattan Transfer and later texts. 1662 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin iii. viii. 144/1 (caption) The second Eye-muscle, or the Musculus deprimens. 1798 J. Ebers II. 649/1 Die Augenmäuslein, the Eye-muscle, the Depriment. 1881 2 51 (title) Spasm of the intra-ocular eye muscles. 1959 30 Mar. 10/6 Points for quality..are given for..size and shape of the eye muscle in the back [of a pig]. 1992 J. C. Oates i. viii. 21 Kelly had had an imbalance in her eye muscles, the name for the defect..strabismus. 2003 H. Pienaar 14/2 The large eye muscle can be removed from the prime rib to the loin. 1616 N. Breton 18 Out of his trauailes, he makes his discourses, and from his eye-obseruations, brings the Moddels of Architectures. 1828 II. vii. 17 I had often laughed at Cochrane's northern Russia tales, as being beyond, both the reach of our stomach and eye observation. 1889 3 Jan. 5/3 The camera..gives more reliable results than mere eye observations. 1941 W. E. K. Middleton viii. 166 This is nearly always an eye observation... Instruments for improving the accuracy of the estimation have been suggested. 2007 39 163/1 The fact is, however, that there still remain large discrepancies among eye observation, albedo information, satellite estimation, and actual percentages at different scales. 1895 A. C. Haddon 23 The eye has become enormously enlarged, and constitutes what I propose to term an eye-panel. 1918 5 176 The horizontal bands of short religious texts and the eye-panel are found also on contemporary coffins of Upper Egypt. 2002 60 50/3 Next, Wah's mummy was laid on its left side in the coffin, with the head directly behind the eye panel painted on the outside. 1668 P. M. Myst. & Miracles Love i. 33 in W. Charleton The Eye-parly between Leander and Hero. 1739 tr. Marquis d'Argens I. xii. 81 The Success of a Patch, placed at a Corner of the Eye, to make it more lively,..is a Matter of highest Concern..: All these Set-offs have Names..the Eye-Patch, for Example, is titled the Assassin. 1802 tr. in 4 Sept. 1/3 Imagine to yourself..the pretended coachman taking off his tye wig and eye patch, and then reproaching Aurora. 1833 P. J. Selby II. 207 It [sc. the Common Turnstone] is frequently met with in an intermediate state, with more or less of the reddish-brown; and the collar, eye-patch, &c. less marked and distinct than in the adult bird. 1967 C. Potok iii. 60 His long, thin face with the black eyepatch made him look like a pirate. 1989 11 Apr. 10/2 If glasses or an eye patch are prescribed, persevere with them for as long as necessary. 2001 T. Saunders (2002) ii. 31 She was a bonny little dog, white with black splodges and an eyepatch. 2006 S. Donovan (2007) ix. 78 He wore an eye patch for most of his life after losing an eye as a teenager. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > cataract 1597 W. Langham 140 Eye perle, apply it with the gleyr of an egge, a litle dry Saffron, and a spoonefull of womans milke, with flaxe vpon the eye. 1665 R. Hooke 179 There may be by each of these eye-pearls, a representation to the Animal..as in a man's eye there is a Picture or sensation in the Retina. 1834 J. M. Moore 167 A lucky woman is neither more nor less than a witch; one of the harmless sort, however, whose chief business is to cure warts, paralytic strokes, eye-pearls, [etc.]. 1840 (ed. 42) 124 In some of these the head, eye-pedicels, and tentacles, can be withdrawn under the skin..into the cavity of the body. 1919 54 319 A portion of the shells (males?) show in the adult a deep notch or sinus.., somewhat analogous to the sinus for the eye pedicels in Strombus. 1951 63 36 Steinkern of an incomplete cephalon [sc. of a trilobite] showing eye pedicel. 1841 G. Grey I. iii. 57 We caught a crustaceous animal..furnished with..four antennæ in front.., and two eye peduncles by their side. 1852 J. D. Dana 440 The acicle of the outer antennæ is..seldom shorter than the eye-peduncle. 1996 26 261 The well-developed antennae encircle the eye peduncles of the host. the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] > eyelid 1786 F. Burney 25 Dec. (1842) III. 255 When my poor eye-peepers are not quite closed, I look to the music-books. 1864 tr. A. Stein xv. 94 Anna did not wish to go to sleep, she wanted to see Alida first, but Mr. Sandman came, and shut her eye-peepers. 1914 S. Kingstandish iv. 123 Then turning to walk toward the babe's blue and white nest, she said, ‘Leetle Missie oughter shet dem buful eye-peepers.’ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > for the eyes > liner 1878 9 Mar. 230/3 They supposed she scraped the bricks for rouge, and got the eye pencil in some equally curious way. 1902 20 Nov. 6/3 Sticks of grease-paint, eye-pencils, lip salve. 1948 4 Sept. b11 Don't use eye pencil or make-up. You'll glare at people. 2003 Oct. 54/1 Holding your eyelid taut, dot eye pencil along your top lash line to create the illusion of fuller lashes. 1824 4 237 Small plate above the eye less than half the length of the central plate, and not twice as large as the posterior eye plate. 1830 4 73 By means of these plates, termed eye plates, the breast carriage is attached to the centre of the port by the breast bolt g, passing..through the gudgeons c, d, which are fixed to the ship's side. 1903 Nov. 505 The comparative structure of the hard chitinous parts of the body, especially of the eye-plates, mouth-organs, and palps. 1923 II. iv. 93 On its upper surface are three eye~plates, to which are shackled the three legs of a chain sling. 2005 B. E. Gorenc et al. (ed. 7) viii. 249 The clearance should not exceed 0.05 times the pin diameter if the pin and the eye plates are not galvanized. 1778 F. Burney Let. ?20 Dec. in (1994) III. 200 They..were determined, also, to know me should we meet again, for most plentifully, indeed, had I my share of Eye play. 1869 1 Sept. 201 She sat by him on the sofa,..lifting her eyes and dropping them again. My belief is, she must have been to a school where they taught eye-play. 1912 H. R. Haggard v. 77 I heard Pereira, who was engaged in some eye-play with Marie, say in a loud voice: ‘Yes, it was pretty, very pretty.’ 2003 R. Desjarlais 59 Such eye-play is reminiscent of the flirtatious exchange of glances so often seen in Nepali and Hindi films... ‘It's like a conversation with the eyes,’ Karma said to me. 1746 A. Monro in (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) II. 115 With the help of a flexible eye-probe. 1860 R. G. Mayne Eye-probe, name for a probe having an eye or small hole at one end. 2012 S. McGee liii. 469 One proposed test is the probe test, in which the clinician gently probes the ulcer base with a sterile, blunt, 14-cm 5-Fr, stainless-steel eye probe. 1886 24 Sept. 5/1 A substance termed the visual purple of the eye. Now, this eye-purple is eminently sensitive to the action of light. 1902 24 July 51/2 The Favorite [rifle] telescope..is described as having..fine indestructible cross hairs, and over 2 inches eye relief. 1959 Mar. 259/2 (advt.) Sufficient eye relief for easy viewing. 2011 N. English xii. 191 All Barlow lenses increase (to a greater or lesser degree) the eye relief of eyepieces. 1818 L. Hunt p. xxviii As on the eye-retorting dolphin's back That let Arion ride him. society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > versification > rhyme > [noun] > eye-rhyme 1797 Pref. p. ix As booksellers agree that the number of those who read ‘only with their eyes’, is far greater than of those who use their tongues or ears on the occasion, the eye-rhymes may perhaps be justly esteemed the most important of the two. c1873–4 G. M. Hopkins (1937) 246 Unlawful rhymes—We may notice (i) mere eye-rhymes; [etc.]. 1909 O. Jespersen i. 5 But eye-rimes are of comparatively recent growth, many of them owing their origin to words of formerly identical or similar sound having now become differentiated, thus war and far. 1936 H. A. Treble & G. H. Vallins 157 Especially to be noted are ‘eye rhymes’, i.e. those which exist only to the eye and not the ear, like quay—day. 1992 43 251 There are some interesting observations on eye-rhymes in Chaucer manuscripts, which indicate..a growing awareness of the look of a text in the fifteenth century. 1835 23 Oct. Double and single eye rims with pure Brazilian Pebbles. 1875 E. H. Knight II. 820/2 Eye-rim, a circular single eye-glass, adapted to be held to its place by the contraction of the orbital muscles. 2002 D. C. Davidson & R. J. S. MacGregor (ed. 2) 16 (caption) The first form of bifocals comprised two semicircular lenses mounted in each eye-rim with the division horizontal as described by Benjamin Franklin in a letter dated 1784. 1970 (National Materials Advisory Board) iv. 13 Close attention should be paid to research results in eye-safe wavelength lasers in glass hosts so that timely establishment of test facilities can be made. 1987 Jan. 13/1 Light from the laser becomes eye-safe after passing through a beam expander. 1992 8 Aug. 27/2 That concern led the Pentagon to develop ‘eye-safe’ lasers, which operate in the infrared range of the spectrum, at wavelengths longer than 1.5 micrometres. 2008 D. Shideler & D. Sigler 49/2 The unit projects an eye-safe laser that is ‘bounced’ off the object being aimed at and received back into the unit. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [noun] > range or field of 1853 30 Mar. Exceedingly broad, and yet, besides, minute in her eye-scope of character, she irresistibly interests minds of every class and grade. 1891 R. Kipling iv. 24 They can declare truthfully the name of every ship within eye-scope. 1921 L. R. Freeman ii. 47 A narrow bay, well protected and smooth as a mirror, ran inland beyond eye-scope, piercing the island like a sliver of silver. 1961 J. M. Myers iii. xviii. 141 Throwing up my head like a bugling elk, I looked down on all within eye scope. 1871 14 Jan. 45/3 I am told they [sc. the enclosed seeds] are the produce of a perennial plant growing by an old road in Oxfordshire, and that the people there have great faith in their powers of drawing or expelling foreign matters from the eye; and by whom they are called ‘Eye seeds’. 1877 E. Peacock Eyeseeds, a plant whose seeds, if blown into the eye, are said to remove bits of dust, cinders, or insects that may be lodged therein. (Qu. what plant?) 1886 J. Britten & R. Holland 172 Eye-seeds..Probably Salvia Verbenaca. 1923 E. Gepp (ed. 2) 45 Eyeseed, the seed of gromwell (Lithospermum officinale), which is put into the eye when a foreign substance has got in... ‘I got a ail in my eye,’ a man said, ‘an I put a eyeseed in, and next mornin' that laid on my eyelid.’ 1984 S. M. Palliser 54 The remedy was still continued in Lincolnshire into the nineteenth century using a similar species of plant, the vervain sage, known as ‘eyeseeds’. the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > [adjective] > of eyewitness 1632 W. Lithgow x. 507 So may some Stoicall Reader mis-conster..this eye-set History. the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > for the eyes > colour for lids and brows 1922 May 80/3 Lipstick and paste, Rose Rouge and Poudre d'Illusion, as well as eye lotion, eye shadow and eyedrops, are all to be found in this jewel of a dressing-case. 1950 J. Emerald i. 27 Eye-shadow is applied to the eyelids with a flat-top sable brush. 1974 Mar. 45/3 This incredible creature in furs, feathers, eye shadow and lipstick strutted in, limp-wristed, one hand on his hip, crying..‘I'm not afraid of anyone in this whole wretched place!’ 2012 17 June 55/2 The young girls among the dancers..applied spray-tanner and wore purple eyeshadow and pink lipstick and sparkly dresses and wigs with long ringlets. 1930 Jan. 22/4 Ruby lips, high rouged cheeks, eye-shadowed eyelids and mascara-ed eye-lashes produce the stunning oriental type of dazzling beauty. 1956 N. Algren ii. 269 And the mascaraed, Maybellined eye-shadowed girls agreed with a cold vindictive glee—‘Why give him a chance’? 1999 B. E. Ellis 121 I'm kissing a heavily eye-shadowed Chloe, who is..looking exactly like someone should look who has been shooting a Japanese soda-pop commercial for most of the day. 1834 May 223/2 He has neither the water reservoir of the Camel to supply him on the desert, nor the eye shield of the Rein Deer to protect his eye from the frozen snow. 1955 A. MacLean vi. 110 The duckboards were littered with goggles, eyeshields and gas masks. 2013 A. C. Luke in L. J. Micheli et al. (ed. 3) ii. xxi. 475 A plastic or metal eye shield can be used to cover the affected eye until the athlete is evaluated by the specialist. 1916 33 81 Eye Shine in Birds... The glow seen at night in the eyes of various animals when they are facing a bright light. 1942 7 Mar. 3/3 Many observers insist that with the exception of cats.., house and barnyard animals seem not to possess as much nocturnal eyeshine as do wild creatures. 2002 Oct. 109/1 I enjoy photographing when the light is low and the flash reflects from the back of the wildlife's eyes. At one time, photographers only thought of this eyeshine as a mistake, yet it has tremendous creative possibilities. 1646 Bp. J. Hall 299 I have long since left to be eie-sick. 1594 J. Dickenson sig. E 3v That eye-Syren, alluring not with the sound, but at the sight. society > communication > representation > a plastic or graphic representation > graphic representation > drawing plans or diagrams > [noun] > a plan or diagram > made by eye society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > in specific manner 1757 J. Call Let. 10 Dec. in R. O. Cambridge (1761) App. 7 An eye-sketch of the country round the fort, which I annex hereto, shews more clearly that..it will hardly be possible to get into Chengalaput on the north or south side. 1793 J. Smeaton (ed. 2) §317 Of this column, I made an eye-sketch at the time. 1887 8 257 He suggests that the original panoramic profiles were eye sketches. 1945 P. V. Bradshaw 54 You can practise ‘eye-sketches’ everywhere. 2010 (Nexis) 13 Sept. The commandant must put down..if the briefing was based on a grid, digital or eye sketch map. 1936 (Univ. Texas) No. 16 36 As examples of eye-skips I list here unique accidental omissions of lines and passages, with an explanation as to the probable cause when any is apparent. 2011 D. Wakelin ii. 52 There are two instances of eye-skip where the scribe looked back at MS Harley 3730 for the next stretch of text, remembering which word he had got to, but looked back at the wrong place, misled by the recurrence of a word. 1936 5 15 Although a considerable body of variant readings can be collected, they may be classified under the headings of eye-slips, inversions, alterations in syntax [etc.]. 2001 44 41 See, for instance, the word ‘starre’ on fo. 302r, written and then deleted currente calamo, evidently as a result of scribal eye-slip, the same word appearing almost exactly one line earlier in the manuscript. 1768 B. Noble iii. 32 Turn the whole circle until you can see through the eye-slit. 1852 S. Laing v. 95 The flat Mongolian face and unhorizontal eye-slit of the Sclavonic soldiers. 1917 B. Moses vii. 111 Everyone looked alike, draped in white sheets, a white cloth with eyeslits over the face. 1989 Dec. 102/2 Her eye slits were long and slanted, with glinting black irises set in bright yellow corneas. 2011 (Nexis) 24 May a1 Eriksen helped him cut eye slits so he could pull the Christmas hat far down his head and peer out. the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > parts of skull > [noun] > socket of eye 1661 A. Brome 4 Be her hair red, be her lips gray or blew, Or any other hew, Or has she but the ruins of a nose, Or but eye-sockets, I'll love those. 1783 H. C. Jennings xi. 155 One of a proper Size should be procured, having (as in the best Grecian Sculpture) the Eye-Sockets or Brows, prominent..and capacious. 1854 R. Owen Struct. Skeleton & Teeth in I. 173 The eye-sockets..are..large, and usually with a free and wide intercommunication in the skeleton. 2001 N. Griffiths 38 There is an old animal skull gone green in the debris on the floor, cobwebs in its empty eye sockets. the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing 1828 T. Carlyle in Apr. 450 The law of Destiny which dooms them to such unspeakable ‘eye-sorrow’. 1837 T. Carlyle II. vi. vi. 404 So many Courtiers..are an eyesorrow to the National Guards. 1904 C. G. Harper xv. 215 Such eye-sorrows and ear-torments as dusty brake-parties clamant with the latest comic songs and energetically performing upon cornets and concertinas. 1837 R. Owen in II. 130/2 The eye-specks are situated a little way behind the head. 1880 H. C. Bastian iii. 61 The simple ‘eye-specks’ of some of the lower Worms. 1911 63 256 A young specimen [of the polychaete Nothria geophiliformis] has a pair of minute eye specks. 1971 44 102 Yellowish eye specks below cuticle visible in all workers in alcohol. 1835 R. Owen III. i. 148 A section of the eye with the eye-stalk of the Devil-fish (Cephaloptera Giorna, Cuv.). 1851 S. P. Woodward i. 25 The snail affords a remarkable, though familiar instance, when it draws in its eye-stalks. 1880 T. H. Huxley i. 24 At the ends of the eye-stalks are the organs of vision. 1940 G. S. Carter viii. 163 A prawn... If the whole eye-stalk of this animal, and its optic ganglion within it, is cut away, an antenna-like organ is regenerated. 2003 Feb. 94/2 (caption) The shrimp, dubbed Rimisaris exoculata, or ‘rift shrimp without eyes’, lack eyestalks and lenses. 1824 May 335/1 Suns will shine in the zone of Love's beautiful dress And the heart with Love's eye-stars will feelings express. 1834 R. Southey I. 41 So many featherlets, leading up to..the gem or eye-star, for which the whole was formed. 1852 H. Melville ii. v. 46 Thou art my heaven, Lucy; and here I lie thy shepherd-king, watching for new eye-stars to rise in thee. 1932 D. C. Minter 53/2 Algerian eye stitch..is worked over a square having four threads on each side. 1986 H. Hanley 92 If you enlarge the basic star stitch to four, six or even eight mesh the result is the eye stitch. 2006 M. Webb iv. 341/2 Eye stitch is primarily a canvas stitch used on single canvas, but it can also be successfully worked on an even-weave fabric, providing that a fine thread is used. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort i. xix. 125 There is a little Stone found in these Islands, most commonly neer the Sea-side, and sometimes at a good distance from the Sea, which from its vertues may be termed the Eye-stone. 1677 R. Plot 129 An Ophthalmites, or some sort of Eye stone. 1762 P. Murdoch tr. A. F. Büsching II. 433 The eye-stones..which are found among the gravel in the springs mentioned..are very smooth, and have a fine lustre, being like marble, exceeding soft to the touch. 1828 S. F. Gray (ed. 4) 143 The shelly operculum, Guernsey eye-stone, put into the inner corner of the eye, works its way out at the outward corner, and brings out any strange substance with it. 1865 H. Emanuel 163 These stones [sc. onyx] are also termed by jewellers ‘eye-stones’. 1908 24 588/1 If the particle still remains, consult a physician. Eye stones are only mentioned to be condemned. They seldom do good, but often do harm. 2005 48 143 Some believe instead that the term [sc. fish-eyes] refers to ‘eye-stones’: banded stones which were polished to resemble eyes. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > eyestrain 1874 31 67 (heading) Headaches..from eye strain. 1909 Dec. 779 Of all the causes of eyestrain the most frequent is the presence of an error of refraction. 1979 23 Mar. 1278/1 Indeed, the headache commonly associated with eye strain may be more related to such factors as tension, stress, anxiety, or fatigue. 2012 24 Mar. a4 (advt.) Take measures to ease eyestrain when using a computer. 1809 14 Jan. 27 The various troops of heavy artillery commanded by Zeal of the Spirit, perform their evolutions, of groanings, violent eye-straining, sudden exclamation, and extravagant contortion, with uncommon rapidity and efficacy. 1844 2 584 All hunters into old books well know the peculiar neck-stretching and eye-straining irksomeness of copying from a folio. 1914 56 477/1 (advt.) No eye-straining as with the old card index. 1923 R. Kipling 185 Cold, nose-running, eye-straining work. 2001 June 6/2 The problem (mine at least) is that you had to reduce the font size. Quite dramatically. This..definitely makes it more eyestraining. the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > excretions from eye > [noun] 1591 R. Southwell f. 26 Would our eies be so dry, if such eie streams were behoouefull? c1651 in J. Jones (1727) I. 17 Oh; Grief stops my Eye-Streams; pray Reader then Lend me some Tears till I can Weep again. 1824 1 Apr. 192/2 Horatio Gilman knew the sex too well to melt at an eye-stream, or to be dazzled by an eye-beam. 1959 tr. in 79 12/1 I did not weep, the eye-stream came forth from the smoke. 1717 (ed. 19) Table of 2nd Bk. Eye Canker... Eye Stripe. 1811 G. Shaw VIII. i. 71 Greenish-blue Kingfisher, yellowish beneath, with black wing-coverts and black eye-stripe. 1895 1 Apr. 5/3 Dr. Sarah R. Munro has entered a large tiger cat... He is a very well marked specimen of his kind, having the eye stripes and king's necklace, so-called, well defined. 1938 31 380 It had a whitish eyestripe and the legs were dark grey. 2003 S. L. Hilty (ed. 2) 148/2 Wrens. Troglodytes. Small, brownish, and plain, but eyestripe usually evident; short cocked tail. 1888 F. H. Hatch 11 Eye-structure. In this structure..the foliated and secondary minerals are arranged in layers round the larger original constituents, producing lenticular forms which often bear a striking resemblance to eyes. 1931 tr. R. Ijzerman 284 The lack of crushing..points to the fact that the eye-structure here is not a result of pressure. 1990 R. Mason (ed. 2) iii. 73 This 'eye structure' of the cleavage is not due to the growth of the andalusite crystal pushing aside the cleavage. 1744 H. Baker in (Royal Soc.) 43 35 I shall..distinguish it by the Name of Eye-Sucker, as that Name conveys an Idea of the Manner how it lives. 1753 Suppl. Eye-sucker, a small sea insect, which is sometimes found fixed by the snout to the Eyes of sprats. 1823 XIX. 551/1 Pennatula filosa, the eye-sucker: stem a little fleshy, with a rib feathered on each side, and furnished with two filiform tentacula at the base. 2002 D. M. Damkaer I. iv. 31/2 The next Englishman to record a copepod was Henry Baker, who said..that he had found an ‘eye-sucker’ on sprat. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > a look or glance > [noun] > survey 1833 I. 266 You rise from your saddle, make one bold eye sweep of the vast amphitheatre before and underneath you. 1865 E. Burritt 440 When you have taken your first eye-sweep, you cannot say which goddess is the fairest. 1991 June 136/2 Blondy did the same eye sweep to me that he'd done to Sylvia. 1596 W. Warner (rev. ed.) xii. lxxvi. 310 Al Touch-sweet, Tast-sweet, Eye-sweet, Ear-sweet, Sent-sweet, Soule-sweet, is A vertuous Match, but vitious Loue in al contraries this. 1645 S. Rutherford 187 Not only God, but all his instruments..must be eye-sweet to us. 1863 22 May The effect of this arrangement is peculiarly ‘eye-sweet’. 1990 Jan. 48/3 Modern designers cram so much into their creations that, although they sail well, few are ‘eye sweet’. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adjective] > clearly visible > conspicuous 1635 R. Brathwait tr. M. Silesio iv. 145 No object, were it never so pleasing nor eye-taking, could delight mee. 1868 G. M. Hopkins (1959) 177 An ash rose with eye-taking sky-clusters. 1960 July 38 She likes..eye-taking colours. 2000 (Nexis) 7 Nov. Figures that demanded an almost athletic expertise were eyetaking with patterns and precision of a high order. 1856 60 The Report of your Vegetable Committee, is founded on the eye-test—they report on what they see. 1881 J. E. A. Troyte i. 11 The ‘eye-test’ was rather severe, having to count white dots on black paper right across a large room, each eye alternately being covered. 1962 Dec. 31/1 I passed the eye test and written examination with a perfect score. 2013 (Nexis) 6 July 9 Thousands of children are being denied eye tests because their parents are worried that they will be bullied for wearing glasses, a survey suggests. 1789 E. Darwin 142 The Cherub train..with wonder touch the sliding snail, Admire his eye-tip'd horns. 1896 Nov. 53 You can find them in the woods or in your garden, thrusting out their inquisitive little heads and investigating everything with their eye-tipped feelers. 2009 D. Ackerman 133 A tiny snail..glides to the edge, eye-tipped tentacles waving, and leans over, hunting for the next toehold. 1973 1 An eye tracker for continuously tracking orientation of the optic axis of an eye. 1993 2 139/2 An eye-tracker is used to monitor adult subjects' eye behavior during reading. 2012 (Nexis) 12 June e1 The eye-tracker showed that they would quickly glance at the alternative object before choosing the correct one. 1950 Nov. 53/1 There can be no falling off..in eye tracking during that time or it will indeed be the last hour. 1984 68 323/1 Eye tracking, a research methodology which measures the cognitive processing of text through eye movement. 1998 Jan. 111/3 Eye tracking is the ability to see objects clearly while the body is in motion. 2013 (Nexis) 12 Mar. s7 Eye-tracking technology..would allow users to pause videos or scroll up and down the page simply by shifting their gaze. 1893 Nov. 92 A child does not need..a guide-line in penmanship to dwarf his eye-training and judgment of distance after he can distinguish the difference between a whole space and a half space. 1907 24 Sept. 4/4 The effect of free eye-training in the development of mental powers. 1991 M. Gullan-Whur v. 173 Almost anyone can learn the information in this workbook and gain practical experience in eye training. the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [noun] > an instance of, illusion > resembling something else 1750 1 244 Away with your Symmetry and Proportion, paltry Eye-traps, empty Shadows. 1766 P. Thicknesse ix. 35 The coffee-houses, &c. are decorated with a great deal of eye-trap. 1825 18 152 A got-up thing—a mere eye-trap. 1928 G. G. Coulton vii. 237 The little church of East Winch was set as an eyetrap, with the line of road leading inevitably down to it. 2008 R. Barrett xiii. 137 If you're not careful, you may place tangents or other ‘eye traps’ in your drawings that are too predictable or appear in the wrong places. 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne iii. v. 521 Galba..perceiuing him and his wife beginne to bandy eie-tricks and signes. 1946 K. Tynan 12 Aug. (1994) ii. 128 The other week I saw a film called ‘The Spiral Staircase’, which makes all our eye tricks seem incredibly vieux jeu. 1974 Oct. 746/1 Here we see the phenomenon of figure-ground reversal, not unlike the visual eye trick which occurs when silhouetted designs can be seen to reverse themselves. 2004 C. Hern viii. 152 If ever there was a time to flirt, to entice, it was now. Perhaps she should try one of the eye tricks. 1768 N. Maskelyne 7 A Mark may be made on the Eye Tube of the refracting Telescope, by which it may be always re-adjusted to the same Position after any Alteration. 1912 W. Patten viii. 148 The external opening of the forebrain vesicle and that of the parietal eye tube. 1979 J. Muirden (ed. 4) xiii. 190 To ensure that full illumination is obtained with the lowest powers, see that the whole objective is visible from the extreme edges of the eye-tube. 2012 S. Markle 18 When the eye of a jumping spider looks dark, the angle is straight down the eye tube to the retina. 1905 June 12/2 Quite as odd are the ‘eye’ veils, which have no dots from below the nose to the hat brim, the net being plain across that part of the face. 1928 4 June 5/3 The eye-veil fashion..is good for the races. 1978 H. Shaw 13 In the end the new hat with the dusty-pink eye-veil and crown of feathers seemed far too conspicuous. 2004 M. O'Hara (2005) 11 Daddy always with his silver-handled walking stick and his spats, Mammy never without a magnificent hat and eye veil, we were an elegant family. the world > life > the body > vascular system > blood vessel > [noun] > branch 1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin i. xiiii. f. 43v They sende into each of ye caules innumerable small eye vaynes & artyres wherby ye caules be susteyned and encreasyd also. 1610 G. Markham i. xxxiv. 67 You shall let him bloud on his temple veines, and on his eye veines. 1753 I. 148 The Cure then is to let the Sheep Blood in the Eye-veins, Temple-veins, and through the Nostrils. 1848 H. S. Randall xv. 253 As the good effects of venesection, in all cases..depend not only upon the amount of blood abstracted, but also upon the rapidity with which it is drawn from the veins, the eye-veins are not the proper ones to open. 2008 94 396/2 Serum samples were taken..by bleeding [mice] from the tail (during immunization) or eye vein (just prior to being killed). 1657 J. Sergeant 198 Dr. H. would persuade us to beleeve against our eye-verdict. 1627 R. Sanderson 319 They doe him but eye-seruice; and he giueth them but eye-wages. society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > dutiful or attentive > only under eye of master 1742 R. North & M. North 317 Most of them [sc. servants] were but Eye-waiters, and diligent only for fear of losing their Places. 1897 III. 2106/2 Eye-waiter, an eye-servant. 1885 12 Sept. 284/1 There is a quick loss of the fluid contents of the eye. The eye wall falls in, the cornea crumples. 1898 19 Nov. 1578/1 In the former there is a circular muscle attached to the front of the bulb and to the equator of the lens, and an elastic portion of the eye wall which yields to the increased intraocular pressure when the eye contracts. 1955 36 459/2 In Typhoon Marge, 1951.., the stratocumulus 'floor' bulged up to about 8000 feet near the storm center, sloping downward to a minimum height near the eye walls. 1972 23 70/1 These reports indicated a classic eye-wall and a clear eye was observed on satellite photographs. 1985 40 688 A circle of eye wall containing the bleb was then removed with a trephine. 2006 Sept. 91/2 Redfield nailed down the rotary nature of a hurricane's eye wall, a churning cylinder of wind circling a calm center. 1868 C. Darwin I. vi. 188 A long-beaked carrier, having large eye-wattles. 1937 88 581 Turacus persa zenkeri Reichenow... Iris dark brown, eye wattle vermilion, bill madder with black tip, feet black. 2003 (Nexis) 7 June 93 The eye wattle—the coloured skin around the eye—..is an ornamental and sometimes behaviourally functional feature. 1918 25 Apr. 194/2 Finally, a word on eye-wear... For the routine work of the darkroom there is nothing better than spectacles with curled sides that fit over the ears. 1936 R. Campbell 161 You buy dark specs to stare at castles, But I collect such eye-wear free. 2012 12 Mar. 62/3 Security guards bellowing at young men with thick eyewear and thicker beards. the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > cataract 1657 C. Beck sig. F8v/2 The Eye-web. 1852 E. O'Donnell tr. Dante ii. xvii. 275 Remember, reader, if ever on the Alps, thou hast been enveloped in a thick fog, in which thou couldst see just as far as a mole does through his eye-web [It. per pelle talpe]. 1950 Apr. 387/3 Each ewe..is eye-wigged if necessary. 2004 (Nexis) 22 Apr. 1 We all carried wee tongs we used to eye-wig the sheep. 1851 (P.R.O.: HO 107/2058) f. 649 [Birmingham] John Hibell..Steel Spectacle Eye Wire Maker. 1962 L. S. Sasieni i. 25 This pattern is..produced..by stamping or rolling the eye-wire through dies. 2007 Oct. 30/1 Any portion of the lens that exceeds the interior eyewire of the frame poses a potential safety hazard. 1876 J. R. Lowell in Dec. 746 When the eye-wise [1877 those eye-wise]..shall be lost In the great light. 1905 G. M. Gould III. 500 A seamstress or..any hard-pushed eye-worker. 1945 (1946) 3 202/2 (title) Visual discomfort in eye-workers due to glasses. 1591 J. Lyly iii. iv. sig. Fv Loue is but an eye worme, which onely tickleth the heade with hopes. 1835 W. Kirby I. App. 354 Looking over our author's list of eye-worms that infest fishes, we find that five out of seven are attached to different species of perch. 1944 R. Matheson viii. 152 Pycnoscelus surinamensis is the intermediate host of a serious parasite (Oxyspirura mansoni, chicken eye worm) of poultry. 2001 May 9/3 He tells me about another patient who was convinced he had an eye worm, a parasite unknown in this part of the world. 1687 J. Phillips tr. M. de Cervantes i. iv. xii. 218 Notwithstanding all our Eye-worship, the celestial Casement did not open again in fifteen days. 1866 J. Brougham iii. i. 17 But when after days of dubitation and eye-worship I ventured to woo her for my bride, heigh presto! my gentle seeming angel changed into a very fiend incarnate. 1920 W. A. Anderson 28 Gazing in silent eye-worship at the heart of our constellation, we are strangely lifted out of ourselves. 2009 H. L. Frainin 13 Len finally realized that his eye-worship was being met by her direct gaze. the world > health and disease > healing > healer > specialist > [noun] > on organs or structures of the body > eye 1656 P. Heylyn 28 My hostess..perswaded me to this holy eye-wright. Derivatives 1611 R. Cotgrave Miraillet, a Thorne~backe which hath on either of her sides..a great eye-like spot. 1796 J. E. Smith V. 317 Petals a little toothed,..and marked with more or less of a line, forming an eye-like ring in the centre of the flower. 1879 J. Lubbock ii. 51 Many of the hawk~moth caterpillars have eye-like spots. 2010 16 Dec. 900/2 Young fly larvae are highly photophobic, and this behaviour involves a pair of primitive eye-like structures inside the larva, near its anterior. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † eyen.2Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: Cognate with (in different stem classes) Old High German egī (strong feminine) fear, discipline (Middle High German ege ), Old Icelandic agi (weak masculine) terror, uproar, discipline (compare awe n.1), Gothic agis (strong neuter) fear < an ablaut variant of the Germanic base of Gothic og I fear (see owe n.). Compare owe n. and later awe n.1In Old English a strong masculine (i -stem) ege . The underlying Germanic base was apparently originally an s -stem (reflected in the extended forms discussed at eyesful adj.), which was probably partly reinterpreted as an i -stem (with nominative singular ending *-s ) at an early date, and subsequently passed into other stem classes in the individual languages. Compare ancient Greek ἄχος pain, distress (also an s -stem: see owe n.). Later development. During the Middle English period the sense development of this word ran parallel with the ultimately related awe n.1 which superseded it by the end of that period. eye n.2 and awe n.1 appear to have sometimes been perceived as regional variants of the same word. Obsolete. 1. eOE (Parker) anno 457 Þa Brettas þa..mid micle ege flugon to Lundenbyrg. OE (Julius) (2002) 72 Þa wæs he ærest swiþe afyrht.., ac sona swa þeahhwæþere mid Cristes rodetacne getrymmede hine and him þone ege fram awearp. c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 19957 Ne birrþ uss nohht forr eȝȝe off dæþ Flen godess soþ to seggenn. c1330 (?a1300) (Auch.) (1973) l. 6419 For sorwe and drede and eiȝe Þai flowen euerich his weiȝe. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 5384 Of non þe had ay. c1475 (c1399) (Cambr. Ll.4.14) (1936) ii. l. 9 Some stode astonyed..For eye of þe egle. eOE tr. Bede (Tanner) iv. v. 276 Ic biddo eow eac..for ege & lufan ures Hælendes [L. propter timorem et amorem Redemtoris nostri], þæt we ealle gemænelice smeagan for ussum geleafan. OE (Northumbrian) xxviii. 8 Exierunt cito de monumento cum timore et magno gaudio currentes nuntiare discipulis eius : eodun hreconlice from byrgenne mið ege & mið micle glædnise iornende beada uel sægca ðegnum his. ?a1160 (Laud) (Peterborough contin.) anno 1135 God man he wes, & micel æie wes of him: durste nan man misdon wið oðer on his time. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 9354 Þenne heo sculde..mid æie [c1300 Otho heye] vnimete halden luue swete. c1325 (c1300) (Calig.) l. 9617 Þe child louede him..Ne he nadde of no man more loue ne eye. c1460 (?c1400) l. 931 (MED) It had be wel bettir he had be wele I-lernyd..& had I-had som hey. c1475 in (1913) 130 300 (MED) Exortyng thy peple to haue a specyall ey, That the to prayse they neuer cese. 2. the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > [noun] > one who or that which inspires fear eOE cxliv. 6 Uirtutem terribiliorum tuorum dicent : mægen egena [lOE Salisbury Psalter egena] ðinra hy cweþað. c1175 ( (Bodl. 343) (1894) 12 Me bicom swa mycel fyrht on for þan eȝe þe ic þer iseah, þet ic on eorþan feol. ?c1250 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Egerton) l. 277 in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 177 Eure þer is vuel smech, þusternesse and eie [a1225 Digby eȝie]. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 4552 Muchele is & stor þe eiȝe, tacnen þer beoð on sterren, an monen & on seonnen. a1400 (c1303) R. Mannyng (Harl.) l. 617 (MED) Y aske wheþyr ys grettyr eye, A lesyng or a fals tale seye. c1600 (c1350) (Greaves) (1929) l. 451 (MED) Philip..hathe all Greece at his graunte for his grete yie. the mind > emotion > anger > furious anger > [noun] c1175 (Burchfield transcript) l. 16151 He ne namm þwerrt ut nan gom. Off all þe follkess eȝȝe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 945 Al was heora gristbatinge al swa wilde bares eȝe. c1330 (Auch.) (1882) l. 877 Ȝef ani sarazin wiþ eie, Comeþ to lette me of mi weie. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 839 Wrothfulle wordes of eye. OE Ælfric (Royal) (1997) i. 185 Þa wæs þa sume hwile godes ege [a1225 Vesp. A.xxii godes ȝeie] on mancynne, æfter þam flode. a1225 ( (Winteney) (1888) Prol. 5 Cumeð ye, mine biernes, ȝehyreð me; Godes eye ic eow tece. a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 21 Muchel is þines eorðliches louerdes eie, and hunfold mare is cristes eie.] c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1978) l. 8964 Þu scalt habben þis lond & þin æie beon muchel & strong. c1300 (Laud Misc. 108) (1889) 41 Were was i bi wode or weyȝe..Þat i ne was ay under þin eyȝe? a1450 (?1348) R. Rolle Form of Living (Cambr.) in (1931) 94 And thynk with how mykel, and how gude will þou presentes þi vowes before hym: for till þat he hase hys egh. Phrases to stand eye of and variants: to regard (someone or something) with awe; (in early use) to be fearful or terrified of, to dread. Cf. to stand awe of at awe n.1 Phrases 1a, to stand in awe of at awe n.1 Phrases 1b. OE (Claud.) xxviii. 10 Ealle men geseoð ðæt ðu Drihten lufast; him stent ege of ðe [L. timebunt te]. OE (1932) lxxv. 9 To þam egsan sceal æghwylc habban, þe wera gastum wealdeð and healdeð; eorðcynincgum se ege standeð. a1225 (?c1175) Poema Morale (Lamb.) l. 18 in R. Morris (1868) 1st Ser. 161 Mare eie stondeð men of monne þanne hom do of criste. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon (Calig.) (1963) l. 5834 Him ne stod æie to na-þing [c1300 Otho him ne stod eye of no-þing]. c1330 (?c1300) (Auch.) l. 7090 Of wer no þurt ous stond no aye. a1450 St. Faith (Bodl.) l. 105 in (1889) 82 325 Of þy torment ne stondiþ me non eye. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris (1873) 2nd Ser. 39 He þat is recheles and non eige ne stand of louerde. c1330 (Auch.) (1882) l. 530 Aȝein to bataille þei wente..Neueron of oþer ne stod eie. ?a1400 (a1338) R. Mannyng (Petyt) (1996) ii. l. 150 He stode of him non eye. a1450–1509 (?a1300) (A-version) (1913) l. 3633 Off hym and hys we stode swilk eye. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † eyen.3Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: nye n. Etymology: Variant of nye n., with metanalysis (compare N n.). Obsolete. the world > animals > birds > order Galliformes (fowls) > family Phasianidae (pheasants, etc.) > [noun] > genus Phasianus > phasianus colchicus (pheasant) > brood a1475 Bk. Hawking (Harl. 2340) in (1944) 16 9 I have founde a Couey of pertriche..and eye of fesauntes. 1621 G. Markham xiv. 200 This generall way of taking of Pheasants with Nettes, which..is to take the whole Eie of Pheasants both younge and old. 1675 J. Worlidge (ed. 2) xii. 248 When you have found an Eye of Pheasants..place your Nets hollow, loose, and circular-wise. 1735 II. at Pheasant Having found their haunts, next you are to find their Eye, or brood. 1768 S. Gunning I. xii. 87 He promised to shew me an eye of pheasants. 1818 H. J. Todd Nye of pheasants, a brood of pheasants: So an eye is sometimes called. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † eyen.4Origin: Apparently a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: English eyes , eyas n. Etymology: Apparently an inferred singular of eyes, plural of eyas n. (compare variants at that entry).In quot. with -n plural, perhaps arising from association with plural α. forms at eye n.1 Obsolete. rare. the world > animals > birds > order Falconiformes (falcons, etc.) > family Accipitridae (hawks, etc.) > [noun] > hawk > young a1500 (?c1450) (1976) l. 845 (MED) Syr Garcy went crowlande for fayne, As rampande eyen do in þe rayne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online September 2021). eyev. Inflections: Present participle eyeing, eying; Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: eye n.1 1. a. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > look at or behold a1425 (Stonyhurst) f. 45 Oculo, to eye. 1526 Matt. v. f. vj Whosoever eyeth a wyfe, lustynge affter her, hathe committed advoutrie with her alredy in his hert. 1530 J. Palsgrave 507/1 I dasyll, as ones eyes do for lokyng agaynst the sonne or for eyeng any thyng to moche. 1630 R. Brathwait 19 These..who offer their Morning-prayers to the Glasse, eying themselves so long, till Narcissus-like they fall in love with their owne shadowes. 1678 P. Porter tr. M.-M. de La Fayette 24 Zayde eyed him again, and spoke something to Felime. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer IV. xvii. 443 Their wonder they confess, And eye the man, majestic in distress. 1839 P. J. Bailey 214 How sweetly shine the steadfast stars, Each eyeing, sister-like, the earth. 1895 W. H. Hudson (ed. 3) ii. 47 After inflicting this terrible punishment and eyeing its fallen foe for a few seconds it trotted quietly away. 1908 19 June 21/1 ‘Did you know that I fell desperately in love with you then?’ Alice was expecting something of this sort from the way the man had kept eying her. 1977 B. MacLaverty 51 There were some young girls..drinking at the table across the bar from the soldiers. They were eyeing them and giggling into their vodkas. 2007 S. Dunne (2009) xxxiv. 513 He eyed the money and grinned at Brook, ‘Thanks for the dosh.’ 1532 Remedy of Love in f. ccclxviv/1 [Her] one louer first frendly she eyed. 1566 T. Stapleton iv. 148 Gentle Reader! Eye M. Jewel wel. a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) iii. i. 40 Full many a Lady I haue ey'd with best regard. View more context for this quotation a1659 F. Osborne (1673) 315 Eyeing Christians with a high disdain. 1771 E. Griffith tr. ‘P. Viaud’ 143 The daunted look with which he eyed us. 1797 A. Radcliffe II. vi. 190 They eyed the prisoners with curiosity. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton I. ii. ii. 166 Amorously eyeing the pretty coquet. 1852 M. Arnold 137 The knights eyed her in surprise. a1925 H. T. Lane (1928) iv. 183 I assumed my most schoolmastery expression and manner and eyed him severely and critically. 1960 N. Hilliard 36 She eyed the lipstick with deep suspicion. 2012 I. C. Esslemont ii. 312 He eyed the newcomer first with surprise, then distaste. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil iv. 71 Eyest thow this filthood? 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi 77 Never in her life-time ever eyed the Princesse a more pleasing spectacle. 1655 W. Gurnall 65 They..who in the performing of divine duties, eye not God through them. 1689 E. Hickeringill 39 They..took them Wives of all, which they chose meerly for the Skin deep perfection;..Eyeing nothing of inward goodness, nor the Beauties of the mind. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer III. x. 690 The paths of Gods what mortal can survey? Who eyes their motion? 1779 J. Newton in J. Newton & W. Cowper iii. No. 58. 379 His heart revives, if cross the plains He eyes his home. 1885 Feb. 104/1 A blind man cannot eye the brilliant sun. 1914 T. Hardy 163 A poet wrung in brow, And crazed with the ills he eyed. 2003 July 28/1 In that realm, which mortal eye never eyed, he saw. the mind > attention and judgement > attention > be attentive, pay attention to [verb (intransitive)] the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > watch or observe 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. P4v, in (rev. ed.) At one time or other I haue..eyed the demeanours, issues, and dispositions of sundrie humours. 1611 1 Sam. xviii. 9 And Saul eyed Dauid from that day. View more context for this quotation 1639 T. Fuller iv. xxvi. 215 It being good to eye a suspicious person. 1668 S. Pepys 3 Nov. (1976) IX. 345 I observed my wife to eye my eyes whether I did ever look upon Deb. a1682 Sir T. Browne (1690) 5 In consumptive Diseases some eye the Complexion of Moals. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer III. xiii. 36 He sate, and ey'd the sun, and wish'd the night; Slow seem'd the sun to move. 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith 74 From this hour,..I've stood and eyed the builders. 1826 T. Bewick (ed. 6) I. 248 He..succeeded in eyeing the bird to the distant passage..by which it entered and left its nest. 1877 ‘H. A. Page’ I. iv. 80 Had eyed the lad hovering about the house. 1907 C. A. Eastman i. i. 7 It was soon evident that some one was stealthily eying him from behind cover. 1983 R. Koszarski 198 With Kennedy eyeing Swanson, and Swanson eyeing Kennedy, nobody was keeping an eye on von Stroheim. 2009 D. Boyd ii. 34 When the sets began to show on the horizon, Jeff would wait like a cat eyeing a mouse. 2. the mind > attention and judgement > attention > take notice of, heed [verb (transitive)] ?c1550 R. Hurlestone tr. sig. D.vv She [sc. Faith] alwayes eyeth hys worde and commandment. 1572 J. Leslie f. 2v They..thought thereof to serue their owne turnes, & least intended that, whiche he most eyed. 1590 E. Spenser ii. iv. sig. P6v The aymed marke, which he had eyde. 1669 W. Penn xxii. §3 Let the Glories of another World be ey'd. 1675 tr. W. Camden (rev. ed.) iii. 367 God, whom alone I eyed and respected. 1747 J. Wesley 24 Nothing short of God can satisfy your Soul. Therefore eye him, in all, through all and above all. 1764 J. W. Fletcher Let. Dec. in (1835) II. 462/1 I hope the short-comings of some about you will not prevent your eying the prize of a glorious conformity to our blessed Head. 1846 J. Smith 223 Eyeing God in all places, and in all things. 1905 R. Thirlmere II. 561 The American maidens eyed the mark and went for it... May they all find husbands! 1984 (Nexis) 9 Nov. Florida is eyeing the title that has eluded the school for more than 50 years. 2010 J. H. Kilde xiv. 307 Eying the prize of national educational leadership and recognition, Macalester's purpose became highly pragmatic. the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > meaning of linguistic unit > mean, signify, express [verb (transitive)] > make reference to 1594 W. West sig. kiiv, §219 We are to show the waies how to prepare remedies for the same [offences], which must be done by inditements, in which are chiefly to be eyed the matter and the form. a1645 W. Laud (1651) ii. 49 The letter of the Psalme reads David;..the Spirit of the Psalme, eyes Christ. 1659 T. Fuller iii. 8 This my expression did eye another person. 1904 17 Apr. 10/2 Standard Oil, or Amalgamated Copper interests have been eyeing the Greene Copper property..hoping some day to swallow it. 1947 22 Oct. 4/2 Real estate interests had been eyeing the area. 1966 10 Dec. 8/3 Modern thinking, computerized concerns have seen the potential in the film-record-television..complexes and Columbia Pictures, MGM and United Artists have all been eyed by outside sources. 1998 J. M. Ramseyer & M. Nakazato i. 15 Other American firms began to eye the Tokyo market. 2013 (Nexis) 13 May Chinese carmakers are also eyeing the company. the mind > mental capacity > expectation > expect [verb (transitive)] 1979 8 Oct. d7/3 Dolphins eye end of hex. The Miami Dolphins have made five trips to the Oakland Coliseum..and have come up empty. Coach Don Shula is hoping the streak will end Monday night. 1996 30 Sept. c4 As well as offering financial advice to dancers who are eyeing the end of their stage careers, the centre provides career counselling. 2002 S. A. Southworth xiii. 262 There was tension as different Afghan groups eyed the prospect of control of the capital. 2012 (Nexis) 7 Nov. (Business section) 1 (headline) Macquarie eyes imminent return to mortgage sector. the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > evaluation, estimation, appraisal > appraise, estimate [verb (transitive)] > consider to be, account as ?1593 G. Fletcher Rising to Crowne of Richard III in 79 I by these meanes the peoples hearts did turne, And made them eye me as the rising Sunne. ?1644 J. Howe 16 A Pious man..then eying himselfe as a Repenting; a wash't, and dy'd for Soule. 1650 W. Brough 187 Eying men as mortall and mutable. 1667 J. Janeway 44 We do not sufficiently eye God as the Fountain..of all our Excellency. 1764 III. 175 Voltaire eyed him as a rival, and left no stone unturned to ruin him with the king. 1798 Feb. 104/2 The people eyed me as a phænomenon. 1828 E. H. Dewart xlv. 143 Whenever we look to the cross of Jesus, we should eye him as ‘the surety of his people’. 1915 R. V. Cole (new ed.) 18 It does not surprise one that the yokel should eye a painting as a coloured topographical inventory of his countryside. 1997 J. L. Anderson iii. xx. 381 To the American embassy officials in Havana..Che was already being eyed as the fearsome Rasputin of the new regime. the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > appearance or aspect > have (specific) appearance [verb (intransitive)] a1616 W. Shakespeare (1623) i. iii. 98 My becommings kill me, when they do not Eye well to you. View more context for this quotation 1628 O. Felltham xiv. sig. K4v As if one [sc. Mirth] were, for the contentment of this life; and the other [sc. meditation], eying to that of the life to come. 1800 J. J. Morgan 108 Any application, even to protect the noblest purposes, and though eyeing to ever so glorious a prospect, may, by dissolute minds,..be despised and neglected. the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > make (an opening or hole) [verb (transitive)] > make an opening or hole in or into > small 1842 E. Chadwick Sanitary Condition Labouring Population Eng. & Wales in XXVI. 103 What is called the soft work branch, in the needle trade (eyeing the needles), is entirely destroyed by the use of machinery. 1876 F. Francis (ed. 4) i. 46 On the tail eye hung a triangle also eyed. 1883 May 933/1 The ends of the strands are ‘eyed’. 1902 182/1 The hand-eyer will eye 20,000 to 25,000 needles per day. 2006 M. C. Beaudry iii. 47 Conventionally manufactured needles that had been eyed, guttered, tapered, and tempered. 1877 C. C. Capel v. 57 If the eggs have ‘eyed’ out strongly, and the form of the fish be dark and lusty in the egg, let no one have any anxiety about earliness of breaking the shell. 1902 21 344 The eggs eye very much faster with the spring run. 1994 No. 1. 187/2 More embryos of amphidromous form eyed successfully at temperatures of 10 C and 15 C than those of land-locked form. 2003 J. F. Hemdal x. 128/2 Depending on the water temperature, the eggs will eye up (develop embryos with eyes) within six days. Phrasal verbs to eye over the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > examine or inspect 1795 R. Cumberland II. iv. x. 92 The Peer..eyed him over from heel to head with that haughty air of contempt. 1872 A. I. Shand II. i. 11 Ralph saw Barber eye him over and change his manner perceptibly to a more respectful one. 1929 Nov. 19/1 Jake eyed him over with a critical stare and then sneered openly. 1991 M. Gorkin (1993) v. 72 He stood there for a moment, eyeing over the situation. 2004 L. Stringer xiii. 73 Half the people in there craning their necks around when I walked in the door. And eyeing me over. the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt with [verb (transitive)] > look amorously at 1820 Feb. 572/1 A fat..Bailie, with his beetle legs and bald head, lay flat upon the ice, eyeing up his [curling] stone. 1907 June 73/1 When once inside the store, a general display was shown, and the boys lost no time in ‘eyeing up’ the new attractive styles for the summer. 1909 Dec. 584/1 ‘So, this is the boy, is it?’ inquired Slim, as he eyed up the skeleton. 1932 2 Sept. 5/4 I..was mildly eyeing up the attractive Adonis that came in when [etc.]. 1950 17 Oct. t3/1 Young man, if you're eyeing up my car with a desire to buy it, she's not for sale. 1972 B. Litvack 11 I never laid a hand on Marylou before that night. Don't get me wrong—I'm not saying I never eyed her up. 1992 I. Banks xi. 267 I polished off the eclair..and started eyeing up a Danish pastry. 2008 (Nexis) 7 June (Weekend Suppl.) 97 Sexy, young, flirty girls eyed up by respectable older married men. 1977 12 May (headline) Flatlanders are eyeing up Chester Eaton's farm. 1984 (Nexis) 13 Oct. It had looked at several possible firms over the last year and had itself been eyed up by a handful of predators. 1987 19 Feb. 11 Other developers are eyeing up the prospects which Canary Wharf creates. 2008 8 Mar. (House & Home section) 5/1 A new breed of risk-takers has recently eyed up this land of natural wonder. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.1eOE n.2eOEn.3a1475n.4a1500 v.a1425 |
