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单词 well-eyed
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well-eyedadj.

Brit. /ˌwɛlˈʌɪd/, U.S. /ˌwɛlˈaɪd/
Forms: see well adv. and n.4 and eyed adj.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: well adv., eyed adj.
Etymology: < well adv. + eyed adj.
archaic and rare after mid 17th cent.
1. Keen-sighted; alert and watchful.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > clear- or sharp-sighted
bright-eyeda1393
sightya1400
well-eyeda1425
well-seeing?a1425
eagle-eyeda1475
well-sighteda1529
clear-eyed1530
quick-sighted1542
oculate1549
quick-eyed1561
eyed1563
sharpsighted1571
clear-sighted1586
eagle-sighted1589
lynx-eyed1597
mouse-eyed1599
lycophosed1600
lycophosy1600
right-eyed1600
nimble-eyed1605
perspicacious1616
lyncean1622
piercing-sighted1630
perspicuous1657
sharp-eyed1672
gimlet-eyed1752
keen-eyed1781
keen-sighted1813
hawk-eyed1818
accipitrine1872
accipitral1881
a1425 Edward, Duke of York Master of Game (Digby) xviii. 76 And also þat he be both in felde and at wode delyuere and wele yȝed and wele auysed of speche.
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxxiii. 17) They doo nought else but dote, that wilbe wel eyed and quiksyghted of themselues.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. July 154 Shepheard mought be..well eyed, as Argus was.
1595 G. Markham Gentlemans Acad. f. 6v Let your spaniels range for a couey of partriges, and when they are put vp and begin to scatter, looke that you haue about you well eied markers to some of them.
a1599 E. Spenser View State Ireland 29 in J. Ware Two Hist. Ireland (1633) Yet there appeares among them some reliques of the true antiquitie, though disguised, which a well eyed man may happily discover and finde out.
1625 T. Jackson Treat. Vnbeliefe conc. Deitie xxv. 244 Their sleightie conveyance is not easily discerned, vnlesse they be well eyed.
1880 Congregationalist (Boston, Mass.) 31 Mar. 7/2 Sometimes men are too wise to learn, too well-eyed to see.
1977 J. Gonda tr. Āśvalāyana-Gṛhyasūtra in Ritual Sūtras iii. 569 Well-eyed may I become with my eye.., well-hearing with my ears.
2. Having attractive, beautiful, or well-proportioned eyes. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having
goggle-eyedc1384
well-eyed1483
pink-eyed1519
hollow-eyeda1529
small-eyed1555
great-eyed1558
bird-eyed1564
out-eyed1570
large-eyed1575
full-eyed1581
bright-eyed1590
wall-eyed1590
beetle-eyed1594
fire-eyed?1594
young-eyed1600
open-eyed1601
soft-eyed1606
narrow-eyed1607
broad-eyed?1611
saucer-eyed1612
ox-eyed1621
pig-eyed1655
glare-eyed1683
pit-eyed1696
dove-eyed1717
laughing-eyed1784
almond1786
wide-eyed1789
moon-eyed1790
big-eyed1792
gooseberry-eyed1796
red-eyed1800
unsealed1800
screw-eyed1810
starry-eyed1818
pinkie-eyed1824
pop-eyed1830
bead-eyed1835
fishy-eyed1836
almond-eyed1849
boopic1854
sharp-set1865
bug-eyed1872
beady-eyed1873
bias-eyed1877
blank-eyed1881
gape-eyed1889
glass-eyed1889
stone-eyed1890
pie-eyed1900
slitty-eyed1908
steely-eyed1964
megalopic1985
1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende f. cccxxxix/2 This ymage..was well eyed, well browed [etc.].
1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xx. 128 Let the gallauntes of this worlde,..so well eyed, and gorgeously appareled, marke these thinges wel.
1652 R. Gove Saints Hony-comb xxxii. 40 Rachel, the younger sister, was well-eyed, very beautifull.
1894 W. Morris Wood beyond World (1895) xxvi. 191 The queans were comely and well-eyed.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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