| 单词 | ferret-eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasferret-eye ferret-eye n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > types of sight organ > [noun] ferret-eye1590 squirrel eyes1600 hawk's eye1684 piercer1752 gimlet-eye1825 lynx-eye1828 bug-eyes1905 camera eye1908 night eye1934 1590 Sir P. Sidney Covntesse of Pembrokes Arcadia ii. xiv. f. 163 Having threatning..in her Ferret eies. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) i. ii. 187 Cicero Lookes with such Ferret and such fiery eyes . View more context for this quotation 1781 J. Bentham Wks. (1838–43) X. 104 A hook nose and ferret eyes. 1837 F. Marryat Snarleyyow III. iii. 36 Vanslyperken, whose..small ferret-eyes, and downcast look, were certainly not in his favour. 1915 R. C. Thompson Pilgrim's Scrip 57 Presently the little pithecoid Abdullah turned red, ferret eyes upon the arrack which none else had touched. ferret-eye ferret-eye n. ‘the spur-winged goose, so called from the red circle around the eyes’ (Webster 1890). < as lemmas |
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