| 单词 | ball of the eye |
| 释义 | > as lemmasball of the eye 14. More fully ball of the eye. Originally: the pupil or ‘apple’ of the eye; the visible part of the eye, esp. considered as the organ of sight. In later use: the whole eye within the lids and socket; the globe of the eye. Cf. eyeball n. 1, globe n. 5. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [noun] eyeeOE the fleshly eyec1175 balla1400 window1481 glazier1567 light1580 crystal1592 orb1594 glass1597 optic1601 twinkler1605 lampa1616 watchera1616 wink-a-peeps1615 visive organa1652 ogle1673 peeper1691 goggle?1705 visual orb1725 orbit1727 winker1734 peep?1738 daylights?1747 eyewinker1808 keeker1808 glimmer1814 blinker1816 glim1820 goggler1821 skylight1824 ocular1825 mince pie1857 saucer1858 mince1937 the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > eyeball balla1400 eye-apple1549 eyeball1594 globe of the eye1615 stivea1642 ocular globe1885 a1400 Gloss. W. de Bibbesworth (Paris) 49 Ye bal of ye ye. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 21 Balle of þe ye, Pupilla. 1566 T. Blundeville Arte of Rydynge (rev. ed.) ii. f. 2v, in Fower Offices Horsemanshippe The horse, whose balles of his eyes are whyte, seyth not well in tyme of snow. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. ii. v. sig. K.vij/1 The balles of his eyes shall see nought but darknesse. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 117 Moue these eyes? Or whither riding on the balls of mine seeme they in motion? View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 94 Such a tender ball as th' eye . View more context for this quotation 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 145. ⁋2 The Balls of Sight are so form'd, that one Man's Eyes are Spectacles to another to read his Heart with. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Myopia The Myopia is owing to the too great Convexity of the Ball of the Eye. 1786 Trans. Amer. Philos. Soc. 2 184 I was much surprised..to see a real living worm within the ball of the horse's eye. 1808 W. Scott Marmion ii. xxxii. 111 Raising his sightless balls to heaven. 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xiv. 71 Him Peneleus smote..In the eye's socket, forcing out the ball. 1930 Burlington Mag. Sept. 127/2 We can trace certain Flémallesque characteristics, such as the smallness of the balls of the eyes. 2003 M. Ali Brick Lane xii. 211 How had she been so foolish? She put her fingernails against the balls of her eyes. < as lemmas |
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