| 单词 | to turn up the eggs of one's eyes |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto turn up the eggs (i.e. the whites) of one's eyes a. Applied to anything that resembles an egg in shape or appearance. So †to turn up the eggs (i.e. the whites) of one's eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [noun] > sphericity or globularity > spheroidicity > spheroid > object acornc1388 almonda1400 bean1561 egg1589 ovala1868 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. 76 The egge or figure ouall. a1637 B. Jonson Masque of Gypsies 84 in tr. Horace Art of Poetry (1640) A Puritan poacht, That used to turne up the egg's of his eyes. ?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxxi The eggs of their eies are at their highest elevation. a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 44 There was taken a great glass-bubble with a long neck, such as chemists are wont to call a philosophical egg. < as lemmas |
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