| 单词 | pearl-eyed |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspearl-eyed pearl-eyed adj. (a) affected with a cataract (rare); (b) having eyes resembling pearls. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > cataract pearl-eyed1526 cataractous1820 siliquose1825 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Lev. xxi. 20 None that hath any blemysh shall come nere: whether he be..broken foted or broken handed or croke backed, or perleyed, or gogeleyed. 1632 W. Porter in E. H. Fellowes Eng. Madrigal Verse (1967) (modernized text) 648 The pearl-eyed fish in every water Pursues his love. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pearl-eyed, having a speck in the eye. 1856 Sturgeon in W. B. Tegetmeier Poultry Bk. vii. 48 The eye [sc. in Cochin fowl] should be red and full... In all cases of contracted pupil and blindness, the pearl or broken-eyed birds have been the sufferers. 1958 S. Plath Jrnl. 23 Feb. (2000) 337 I might and must spend years fishing, hauling up the pearl-eyed, horny, scaled and sea-bearded monsters. 1999 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 11 June e 29/1 A monumental, pearl-eyed platinum print of Rebecca Strand by her husband, Paul. < as lemmas |
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