† oglen.1
Heraldry. Obsolete. rare.
A representation of a cannonball. Cf. ogress n.1
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society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [noun] > less honourable charge > circular device > of specific tinctures
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bezant1486
cake1486
gunstone1486
ogle1486
talent1486
torteau1486
tortlet1486
wastel1486
ogressa1550
golpe1562
guze1562
orange1562
pomeis1562
plat1592
fountain1610
tortey1688
1486 Coote Armuris sig. bivv, in Bk. St. Albans Oglys be calde in armys gonestonys.
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oglen.2
/ˈəʊɡl/, U.S. /ˈoʊɡ(ə)l/, /ˈɑɡ(ə)l/ 1. An admiring, amorous, flirtatious, or lecherous glance or look; an act of ogling. Also in figurative context.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > [noun] > amorous looks or demeanour > flirtatious look(s)
amorets1590
belgard1590
oeillade1592
sheep's eyes1604
belamour1610
oglea1668
whiting's eye1673
the glad eye1911
glad1927
a1668 W. Davenant Man's the Master (1775) v. 65 Her ogles dart this way.
1694 J. Dryden Love Triumphant i. i. 15 She has two Devils in her Eyes, that last Ogle was a lick-penny.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 46. ¶8 I have..brought over with me a new flying Ogle fit for the Ring.
1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. v. 348 From two lovely blue Eyes,..flew forth two pointed Ogles . View more context for this quotation
1823 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto VI lx. 31 If fond of a chance ogle at her glass, 'Twas like the Fawn which, in the lake displayed, Beholds her own shy, shadowy image pass.
1853 W. M. Thackeray Eng. Humourists ii. 77 You see him..delivering a killing ogle along with his scented billet.
1882 A. Edwardes Ballroom Repent. I. 20 Enduring alike her wrong notes and her ogles.
1920 D. H. Lawrence Women in Love xxvii. 420 A long-case clock, and inserted into its dial was a ruddy, round, slant-eyed, joyous-painted face, that wagged over with the most ridiculous ogle when the clock ticked.
1989 R. Alter Pleasures of Reading vi. 194 The officer is ‘buttoning his glove’ and ‘stroking his mustache’ as he admires Kitty, thus joining a vaguely erotic ogle with the narcissism of self-caress.
2. slang. An eye; usually in plural. In later use chiefly in context of boxing or fist fighting. Now rare and archaic.
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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
1673 R. Head Canting Acad. 42 Ogles, eyes.
1699 B. E. New Dict. Canting Crew at Ogling The Gentry-mort has rum Ogles, that Lady has charming black Eyes.
1706 E. Ward Hudibras Redivivus I. vi. 25 He rowl'd his Ogles with a Grace Becoming so a zealous Face.
1711 E. Ward Life Don Quixote v. xviii. 348 Turning up his Ogles tow'rd The Shining Heavens, in a Passion.
1753 Discov. J. Poulter (ed. 2) 40 (Gloss.) Ogels, Eyes.
1820 Sporting Mag. 6 80 The latter..got a small taste over his left ogle.
1854 ‘C. Bede’ Further Adventures Mr. Verdant Green (ed. 2) iv. 31 That'll raise a tidy mouse on your ogle, my lad.
1886 H. Baumann Londinismen 93/1 He landed him a little one on his left ogle.
a1961 R. Hodgson Erring Muse in Coll. Poems (1961) 41 Thou cart-tail queen! Go, blandish with thine ogles The bloodless breast of midnight's baleful king.
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oglev.
/ˈəʊɡl/, U.S. /ˈoʊɡ(ə)l/, /ˈɑɡ(ə)l/ 1. † b. transitive. To turn by or in the course of ogling; to make or compel by ogling. Obsolete.
a. intransitive. To look or stare, esp. admiringly, amorously, flirtatiously, or lecherously.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt, philander, or dally [verb (intransitive)] > cast amorous glances
smicker1668
gloat1676
ogle1682
1682 T. Otway in A. Behn City-heiress Prol. Ye go to Church to glout, and Ogle there, And come to meet more lewd convenient here.
c1685 in Roxburghe Ballads (1885) V. 567 Wilt thou still sparkle in the Box, And ogle in the Ring?
1719 T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth I. 256 Here is one can Oagle finely.
a1763 J. Byrom Dissect. Beau's Head viii Those Muscles..wherewith a Man ogles, When on a fair Lady he fixes his Goggles.
1779 F. Burney Let. 11 Jan. in Early Jrnls. & Lett. (1994) III. 226 I was watched the whole Evening,—but..the company behaved extremely well, for they only ogled!
1819 T. Moore Tom Crib's Memorial to Congress 9 'Twas diverting to see, as one ogled around, How Corinthians and Commoners mixed on the ground.
1840 W. M. Thackeray Barber Cox in Comic Almanack 33 ‘How sweetly the dear Baron rides,’ said my wife, who was always ogling at him.
1886 G. M. Fenn Master of Ceremonies iii Her sister ogled and smiled, and smirked under her paint and diamonds.
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 492 The dwarf acolytes, giggling, peeping, nudging, ogling, Easter-kissing, zigzag behind him.
1999 Daily Tel. 6 May 29/1 Another boy ogles from behind a door, lending the scene a witty, almost Hogarthian quality.
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1686 T. D'Urfey Banditti i. i. 5 Let her Pray at home, let her never go to Church, there can come no good on't; I have seen a wench Oagle a fellow out of Church at forty yards distance.
1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses iii. 12 He would ogle you the outside of his Eye inward, and the White upward.
1814 Manœuvring iv. iii, in J. Galt New Brit. Theatre II. 119 I might ogle myself blind..before I should get a kind look from her.
2. transitive. To look at admiringly, amorously, flirtatiously, or lecherously; to ‘make eyes at’.
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the mind > emotion > love > flirtation or coquetry > flirt with [verb (transitive)] > look amorously at
to cast (also throw) a sheep's-eye at (or upon)a1529
to look sideways1652
ogle1686
sheep's-eye1801
to cast (occasionally to make) sheep's-eyes at1809
to eye up1820
1686 T. D'Urfey Common-wealth of Women iv. 36 Well, I swear there's one of 'em so pretty a fellow, that I could not forbear Oagling him for my Heart.
1699 E. Ward London Spy I. ix. 12 Both sexes, who stood Ogling one another with as much Zeal and Sincerity, as if they Worship'd the Creator in the Creature.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 8. ¶7 As soon as the Minuet was over, we ogled one another through our Masques.
1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 47 He sat down fronting me, and all tea-time kept ogling me.
1841 C. Dickens Old Curiosity Shop i. xxxiii. 281 ‘Is that my Sally?’ croaked the dwarf, ogling the fair Miss Brass.
1892 R. L. Stevenson & L. Osbourne Wrecker Prol. 12 Native women came by twos and threes out of the darkness, smiled and ogled the two whites.
1905 Baroness Orczy Scarlet Pimpernel iii. 31 He continued to ogle Sally with marked satisfaction.
1991 Writer's Digest Nov. 71/3 I got a meerschaum pipe I'd been ogling.
2001 New Scientist 10 Mar. 45/1 The girls, on the other hand, reported that guys who are interested will ogle you, tease you, and ‘zephyr’ you.
3. transitive. To keep one's eyes fixed on; to stare at or study intently, esp. through a telescope, binoculars, etc.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > seeing or looking > see [verb (transitive)] > stare or gaze at
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bigapea1250
to gape atc1290
fix14..
to stick one's eyes in (also into)c1485
attacha1500
porec1500
to take feeding (of)c1500
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(to have) in gaze1577
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outstare1596
over-stare1600
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ogle1795
begaze1802
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fixate1889
rubberneck1897
eyeball1901
1795 J. Wolcot Convent. Bill in Wks. (1812) III. 380 And will it not be deem'd a daring thing To ogle through a spying-glass the King.
1819 W. Irving Sketch Bk. ii. 164 There was a dapper, rosy, well-fed parson, who I observed ogling several mouldy polemical writers through an eyeglass.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. i. 2 She first ogled the superscription, and then the seal, very ominously.
1891 W. C. Russell My Shipmate Louise 67 He stood ogling the wreck through his binocular.
1910 H. H. Richardson Getting of Wisdom xiv. 136 She did not hear a word the latter said, and ogled every one who passed, out of the tail of her eye.
1967 D. L. Thomas Plungers & Peacocks v. 91 Two society dowagers ogle the goings-on through their lorgnettes.
1989 T. Tryon Night of Moonbow iv. 172 Humiliated in front of the campers ogling the scene from the barn, Reece turned away.
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