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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 189 Þese hauen in eueriche yȝe tweie blakkes.

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. v. vii. 185 Þe blak of þe yȝe..settiþ in þe middel as a quene.

a1475 Dis. Hawk (Harl. 2340) f. 28, in Middle Eng. Dict. at Blak Yf An hauke be wele colowrde..þe blake of þe hye..must Acorde to þe sureyne.

?1541 R. Copland Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens ii. sig. Eiij^v In the region of the blacke of the eye.

1565 J. Hall tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. iii. vi. 48 The Pupilla..is the blacke of the eye.

1616 Treat. Princ. Dis. Eyes in W. Bayley Two Treat. Preserv. Eie-sight (new ed.) vi. 47 When the white of the eye is so swollen vpon the blacke, so that a kinde thereof appeareth to hang forth, it is called Chemosis.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. viii. 53 As big as the black or sight of the eye.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xii. 239 That black little Circle in the Membrane..commonly called, the Black or Apple of the Eye, becomes in a healthy Man smaller in a great Light.

1870 W. Wilson Bible Student's Guide (ed. 2) 17/2 Schultens supposes it has reference to the little image of a man that is seen in the black of the eye.

1911 P. Radin tr. L. Ginzberg Legends of Jews III. 217 You have the white of the eye and the black of the eye, and it is by means of this dark part of the eye that you are enabled to see.

1998 R. S. Jampel in M. L. Kwitko & C. D. Kelman Hist. Mod. Cataract Surg. 20/1 A needle with a sharp point, but not too slender, is thrust in a straight direction between the black of the eye and the external angle until it reaches the center of the cataract.