eyelessadj.²

Brit.

/ˈʌɪlᵻs/, U.S.

/ˈaɪlᵻs/

Forms: see eye n.¹ and -less suffix.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: eye n.¹, -less suffix.

Etymology: < eye n.¹ + -less suffix.

1. Of a plant part, esp. a potato tuber: lacking buds. Cf. eye n.¹ 10b(a).

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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [adjective] > without buds

eyeless?1440

unbudded1820

budless1837

blind1861

tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 564 (MED) The bareyn eyles canne also displeseth.

1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 348/2 Further cultivation..may so improve the plant as to render it as smooth and eyeless as the round Dutch potato.

1892 W. S. Harrison Sam Williams xxxi. 269 Time would fail me to tell of all the wonder displayed; of the eyeless potatoes, propagated from the seed; of the coreless apples and stoneless peaches produced by grafting.

1947 Kiplinger Mag. Sept. 10/2 Further applications of the growth regulator principle may yield eyeless potatoes.

2000 W. Cullina Growing & Propagating Wildflowers of U.S. & Canada 60/1 Even older, eyeless rhizomes may rejuvenate after you remove the newer leads.

2. Of a needle: having no eye (eye n.¹ 9a); (in later use also) made in such a way as to carry thread without a conventional eye.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [adjective] > sewing > types of needle

eyeless1497

large-eyed1575

blinda1800

1497 Cron. Eng. (de Worde) vi. sig. p/2 Wyth nedyls eylesse of yren, they pryckyd the good chylde.

1758 tr. Voltaire Maid of Orleans II. xviii. 67 Damn the eyeless needle.

1836 H. Murray et al. Hist. China (ed. 2) III. ix. 447 The species [i.e. specimens] are..transfixed by long eyeless needles of large size and rusty condition.

1851 W. J. Linton Eng. Republic I. 19 A pedlar takes eyeless needles to a tribe of ignorant savages.

1921 Times 26 July 10/6 (headline) An eyeless surgical needle.

1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Nov. 1095/2 To the surgeon the eyeless needle has the great advantage of avoiding the need to pull a double-suture strand through the wound.

2001 P. Boyer And Man creates God i. 8 People sometimes buried their dead with a length of thread and an eyeless needle.

a. Esp. of a person or skull: from which the eyes have been lost or (forcibly) removed; blinded.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > having or putting eyes out

eyeless1567

gouging1796

1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 176 A shuddring horror perced mee too see..in his [sc. Polyphemos] frunt the fowle round eyelesse place.

1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 126 What torch is yond that vainly lends his light To grubs, and eyelesse sculles.

1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 94 Turne out that eyles villaine.

1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 41 Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 145 The vengeance vow'd for eyeless Polypheme.

1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. vi. 64 Through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole.

1857 J. G. Whittier Wife of Manoah in Poems 15 An eyeless captive.

1913 S. Graham Changing Russia 242 The beggar was indeed eyeless, and..he opened his horrible mouth and showed he had no tongue.

1990 R. R. McCammon Blue World 21 The man was long dead..and he was nothing but a red clay husk with a grinning, eyeless face.

2006 M. A. Collins Bones: Buried Deep 219 Booth found himself damn near face-to-face with the eyeless sockets of a skull.

b. Having no eyes. Sometimes spec.: (of certain animals) lacking eyes; (also) having rudimentary or vestigial eyes.

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the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having an eye or eyes > eyeless

eyeless1570

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hi/2 Eyelesse, sine oculo.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 183 The gilded Newt, and eyelesse venom'd Worme.

1640 T. Nabbes Bride iv. i. sig. G Those whose judgements..will tell me what Philosophers That eylesse, noselesse, mouthlesse statue is, And who the workman was.

a1822 P. B. Shelley Assassins ii, in Ess. & Lett. (1887) 171 The eyeless worms of earth.

1848 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. (new ed.) 12 In..the great cave of Kentucky are found numerous small eyeless fishes.

1917 M. Corelli in Nash's & Pall Mall Mag. June 218/1 The moon smiled like the bland white face of an eyeless statue.

1921 Science 13 May 462/2 The optic ganglion is normally developed in the eyeless individual [sc. a cave-dwelling cladoceran].

1987 J. Caputi Age of Sex Crime vi. 185 A 1985 advertisement..displays a shiny, curvaceous, aluminum-like fembot, eyeless but wearing lipstick and high heels.

2000 S. J. Gould Lying Stones Marrakech vi. 139 The numerous minor deviations that can draw off a long-necked giraffe or an eyeless mole.

2013 L. Cooper My Second Death xxi. 248 I smile and look at the vague eyeless reflection in the windowpane.

c. Blind, sightless; having no means of seeing. Also: not using the eyes; unseeing; (sometimes more generally) undiscriminating. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind

star-blindeOE

bissonc950

blind-bornc975

blindc1000

darkOE

purblinda1325

sightlessa1325

start blinda1387

stark blinda1425

stone-blindc1480

beetle-blind1556

beetle1566

eyeless?1570

purblinded1572

high-gravel-blind1600

not-seeing?1602

kind-blind1608

bat-blind1609

unseeing1609

blindful1621

winking-eyed1621

lamplessa1625

deocular1632

lightless1638

bat-eyed1656

stock-blind1675

duncha1692

gazelessa1819

visionlessa1821

blind-eyed1887

stone-eyed1890

unsighted1983

?1570 T. Preston Lamentable Trag. Cambises sig. E.ij Cupid he that eyelesse boy, my hart hath so inflamed.

1577 A. Fleming in T. Kendall Flowers of Epigrammes sig. a.vij Whose skill..hath by glisteryng leames of light, To blinde and eylesse men Their couert skill laid out in letters darckly showne.

1717 J. Addison in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iii. 625 Pentheus only durst deride The Cheated People, and their Eyeless Guide.

1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius iii. 227 [He] for a pilot eyeless Chance employ'd.

1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xiii. 61 As never beam Of noonday visiteth the eyeless man, E'en so [etc.].

1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. xviii. 286 Sunshine is of no use in an eyeless world.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 106 I saw the little elf-god eyeless once.

1871 J. Morley Condorcet in Crit. Misc. (1878) 73 The fortuitous vagaries of an eyeless destiny.

1877 W. Morris Sigurd iii. 278 The hungry eyeless sword.

1921 E. B. Fowler Spenser & Courts of Love iii. 110 The poet sees a gilded chariot in which rides Venus and with her the eyeless Cupid bearing bow and darts.

1940 E. Sitwell Poems New & Old 10 And eyeless hope and handless fear.

4. Chiefly literary. Dark; in which nothing may be seen.

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1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 12 O eyelesse night the portrature of death.

1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lii. sig. R4^v The eye-lesse night.

1720 A. Hill Gideon i. 3 Their Own [Lands] they quit..And, hid in Safety's eyeless Dusk, their boasted Glory shade.

a1767 M. Bruce Poems (1796) 130 Now deeds committed in the sable shade Of eyeless darkness, shall be brought to light.

1829 T. Doubleday Dioclesian ii. iii. 76 Now night is eyeless: and the gloom, Which was our kingdom, is our tomb.

a1896 W. Morris Story Orpheus & Eurydice in Coll. Wks. (1911) XXIV. 275 Wearily and slowly he did wend On through the eyeless dusk.

1917 E. Curran Poems (1919) 55 O Sentinel, burst the morning out with song, The dreadful eyeless night has slept too long.

2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 155 The lighted tip of Finkenberger's cigarette was his beacon, and he swam towards it through the eyeless darkness.

5. That cannot be reached or discerned by the eyes; unguessably remote. rare.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > out of sight

invisible1555

anoptical1598

sightless1632

eyeless1839

1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 49 Like stars..They shall ever pass at all but eyeless distance.

1997 B. Courtenay Family Frying Pan 207 The smoke..slowly spreads and fades against the eyeless horizon.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	eyeless
释义	† eyelessadj.¹ Forms: early Middle English eȝȝelæs ( Ormulum), early Middle English æielelese (transmission error). Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: eye n.², -less suffix. Etymology: < eye n.² + -less suffix.Currency in Old English is also implied by eyelessness n.¹ Compare also eyelest n., which may suggest slightly later currency. Obsolete. Having no fear of, or lacking reverence or respect for, authority. Cf. aweless adj. ΚΠ eOE [implied in: King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxvi. 247 Sua hie nu egeleaslicor & unnytlicor brucað ðære mildheortlican Godes giefe. (at eyelessly adv.)]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 6190 Ȝiff þatt ȝho iss gætelæs. & eȝȝe læs. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 9685 Bruttes..weoren æiele-lese [read æie-lese]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2020). eyelessadj.² Brit. /ˈʌɪlᵻs/, U.S. /ˈaɪlᵻs/ Forms: see eye n.¹ and -less suffix. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: eye n.¹, -less suffix. Etymology: < eye n.¹ + -less suffix. 1. Of a plant part, esp. a potato tuber: lacking buds. Cf. eye n.¹ 10b(a). ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [adjective] > without buds eyeless?1440 unbudded1820 budless1837 blind1861 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iii. l. 564 (MED) The bareyn eyles canne also displeseth. 1848 Chambers's Edinb. Jrnl. 25 Nov. 348/2 Further cultivation..may so improve the plant as to render it as smooth and eyeless as the round Dutch potato. 1892 W. S. Harrison Sam Williams xxxi. 269 Time would fail me to tell of all the wonder displayed; of the eyeless potatoes, propagated from the seed; of the coreless apples and stoneless peaches produced by grafting. 1947 Kiplinger Mag. Sept. 10/2 Further applications of the growth regulator principle may yield eyeless potatoes. 2000 W. Cullina Growing & Propagating Wildflowers of U.S. & Canada 60/1 Even older, eyeless rhizomes may rejuvenate after you remove the newer leads. 2. Of a needle: having no eye (eye n.¹ 9a); (in later use also) made in such a way as to carry thread without a conventional eye. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [adjective] > sewing > types of needle eyeless1497 large-eyed1575 blinda1800 1497 Cron. Eng. (de Worde) vi. sig. p/2 Wyth nedyls eylesse of yren, they pryckyd the good chylde. 1758 tr. Voltaire Maid of Orleans II. xviii. 67 Damn the eyeless needle. 1836 H. Murray et al. Hist. China (ed. 2) III. ix. 447 The species [i.e. specimens] are..transfixed by long eyeless needles of large size and rusty condition. 1851 W. J. Linton Eng. Republic I. 19 A pedlar takes eyeless needles to a tribe of ignorant savages. 1921 Times 26 July 10/6 (headline) An eyeless surgical needle. 1979 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 3 Nov. 1095/2 To the surgeon the eyeless needle has the great advantage of avoiding the need to pull a double-suture strand through the wound. 2001 P. Boyer And Man creates God i. 8 People sometimes buried their dead with a length of thread and an eyeless needle. 3. a. Esp. of a person or skull: from which the eyes have been lost or (forcibly) removed; blinded. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] > having or putting eyes out eyeless1567 gouging1796 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xiv. f. 176 A shuddring horror perced mee too see..in his [sc. Polyphemos] frunt the fowle round eyelesse place. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. iii. 126 What torch is yond that vainly lends his light To grubs, and eyelesse sculles. View more context for this quotation 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xiv. 94 Turne out that eyles villaine. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 41 Ask for this great Deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza. View more context for this quotation 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. xiii. 145 The vengeance vow'd for eyeless Polypheme. 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. vi. 64 Through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole. 1857 J. G. Whittier Wife of Manoah in Poems 15 An eyeless captive. 1913 S. Graham Changing Russia 242 The beggar was indeed eyeless, and..he opened his horrible mouth and showed he had no tongue. 1990 R. R. McCammon Blue World 21 The man was long dead..and he was nothing but a red clay husk with a grinning, eyeless face. 2006 M. A. Collins Bones: Buried Deep 219 Booth found himself damn near face-to-face with the eyeless sockets of a skull. b. Having no eyes. Sometimes spec.: (of certain animals) lacking eyes; (also) having rudimentary or vestigial eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having an eye or eyes > eyeless eyeless1570 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Hi/2 Eyelesse, sine oculo. a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 183 The gilded Newt, and eyelesse venom'd Worme. View more context for this quotation 1640 T. Nabbes Bride iv. i. sig. G Those whose judgements..will tell me what Philosophers That eylesse, noselesse, mouthlesse statue is, And who the workman was. a1822 P. B. Shelley Assassins ii, in Ess. & Lett. (1887) 171 The eyeless worms of earth. 1848 W. B. Carpenter Animal Physiol. (new ed.) 12 In..the great cave of Kentucky are found numerous small eyeless fishes. 1917 M. Corelli in Nash's & Pall Mall Mag. June 218/1 The moon smiled like the bland white face of an eyeless statue. 1921 Science 13 May 462/2 The optic ganglion is normally developed in the eyeless individual [sc. a cave-dwelling cladoceran]. 1987 J. Caputi Age of Sex Crime vi. 185 A 1985 advertisement..displays a shiny, curvaceous, aluminum-like fembot, eyeless but wearing lipstick and high heels. 2000 S. J. Gould Lying Stones Marrakech vi. 139 The numerous minor deviations that can draw off a long-necked giraffe or an eyeless mole. 2013 L. Cooper My Second Death xxi. 248 I smile and look at the vague eyeless reflection in the windowpane. c. Blind, sightless; having no means of seeing. Also: not using the eyes; unseeing; (sometimes more generally) undiscriminating. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 ?1570 T. Preston Lamentable Trag. Cambises sig. E.ij Cupid he that eyelesse boy, my hart hath so inflamed. 1577 A. Fleming in T. Kendall Flowers of Epigrammes sig. a.vij Whose skill..hath by glisteryng leames of light, To blinde and eylesse men Their couert skill laid out in letters darckly showne. 1717 J. Addison in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Metamorphoses iii. 625 Pentheus only durst deride The Cheated People, and their Eyeless Guide. 1766 G. Canning tr. M. de Polignac Anti-Lucretius iii. 227 [He] for a pilot eyeless Chance employ'd. 1814 H. F. Cary tr. Dante Vision II. xiii. 61 As never beam Of noonday visiteth the eyeless man, E'en so [etc.]. 1847 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life II. xviii. 286 Sunshine is of no use in an eyeless world. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 106 I saw the little elf-god eyeless once. 1871 J. Morley Condorcet in Crit. Misc. (1878) 73 The fortuitous vagaries of an eyeless destiny. 1877 W. Morris Sigurd iii. 278 The hungry eyeless sword. 1921 E. B. Fowler Spenser & Courts of Love iii. 110 The poet sees a gilded chariot in which rides Venus and with her the eyeless Cupid bearing bow and darts. 1940 E. Sitwell Poems New & Old 10 And eyeless hope and handless fear. 4. Chiefly literary. Dark; in which nothing may be seen. ΚΠ 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 12 O eyelesse night the portrature of death. 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. lii. sig. R4^v The eye-lesse night. 1720 A. Hill Gideon i. 3 Their Own [Lands] they quit..And, hid in Safety's eyeless Dusk, their boasted Glory shade. a1767 M. Bruce Poems (1796) 130 Now deeds committed in the sable shade Of eyeless darkness, shall be brought to light. 1829 T. Doubleday Dioclesian ii. iii. 76 Now night is eyeless: and the gloom, Which was our kingdom, is our tomb. a1896 W. Morris Story Orpheus & Eurydice in Coll. Wks. (1911) XXIV. 275 Wearily and slowly he did wend On through the eyeless dusk. 1917 E. Curran Poems (1919) 55 O Sentinel, burst the morning out with song, The dreadful eyeless night has slept too long. 2005 S. Rushdie Shalimar the Clown 155 The lighted tip of Finkenberger's cigarette was his beacon, and he swam towards it through the eyeless darkness. 5. That cannot be reached or discerned by the eyes; unguessably remote. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > out of sight invisible1555 anoptical1598 sightless1632 eyeless1839 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 49 Like stars..They shall ever pass at all but eyeless distance. 1997 B. Courtenay Family Frying Pan 207 The smoke..slowly spreads and fades against the eyeless horizon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.¹eOEadj.²?1440
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