eye 
It hath, in their eye, no great affinity with the form of 
the Church of Home. Hooker, Eccles. Polity. 
Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set 
forth, crucified among you. Gal. iii. 1. 
The old lady that I have in my ?v is a very caustic 
speaker. R. L. Stevenson, Talk and Talkers, ii. 
6. Look; countenance; aspect; face; presence. 
I'll say, yon gray is not the morning's eye. 
Shak.,H. and J., iii. fj. 
7. Regard; respect; view; close attention; 
aim. 
The doughter of Agrauadain hadde sette hir iyen moste 
vpon the kynge Ban more than on eny othir t'hinge, for 
the coniurison that Merlin hadde made. 
Merlin (E. E. T. 3.), iii. 608. 
Men will counsel with an eye to themselves. 
Bacon, Counsel. 
Booksellers mention with respect the authors they have 
printed, and consequently have an eye to their own ad- 
vantage. Addiaon. 
8. Opposed aspect or course ; confronting pre- 
sentation or direction : chiefly or wholly nauti- 
cal: as, to steer a ship in the sun's eye; to sail 
in the wind's eye. 
Now pass'd, on either side they nimbly tack, 
Both strive to intercept and guide the wind, 
And in its eye more closely they come back. 
Dryden. 
9. Something resembling or suggesting an eye 
in shape, position, or general appearance, spe- 
cifically (a) The bud or shoot of a plant or tuber. 
In capriflge and in mulberry tree 
Figtree men graffeth forto multiplie, 
And oon wol use a graffe, an oth'r the eye. 
Palladium, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 127. 
(!>) One of the spots on a peacock's tail, (c) The muscular 
impression on the inner side of the shell of a bivalve, as 
an oyster. See ciborimn. (d) The hole or aperture in a 
needle through which the thread passes. 
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle 
than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God. 
Mat. xix. 24. 
This Ajax . . . has not so much wit ... as will stop 
the eye of Helen's needle. Shak., T. and C., ii. 1. 
(e) The hole in any instrument or tool in which a handle 
or the like is secured, or through which it is passed, as 
that for the handle in a hammer-head, that for the 
helve in an ax, that for the ring in the shank of an anchor, 
etc. (/) The hole of a millstone through which the grain 
passes, (g) In metal., an opening at the angle of the 
tuyere, or where the tuyere connects with the gooseneck, 
in a blast-furnace, through which the state of the interior 
may be examined. This opening, which is protected by a 
plate of glass or mica, is called the eye of the furnace. 
(A) The catch of bent wire into which a hook (forming 
with it a hook and eye) is inserted, (i) An eyebolt. (j) 
Naut., the loop at the upper end of a backstay or pair of 
shrouds which goes over the masthead of a ship. (*) The 
metal loop at the end of a harness-trace. (I) In archery, 
the loop of a bowstring which passes over the upper nock 
in bracing, (in) The socket at the end of a carriage-pole 
or shaft, (n) The center of a wheel or crank, designed to 
receive the shaft or axle, (o) The center of a target, (p) 
In arch., a general term for the distinctly marked center 
of anything : thus, the eye of a volute is the circle at its 
center from which the spiral lines spring ; the eye of a 
dome is a circular aperture at its apex ; the eye of a pedi- 
ment is a circular window in its center. 
. 
enter or focus of light, po 
, the sun is the eye of day. 
ower, or influ- 
10. A center 
ence : as 
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, 
And often is his gold complexion dimm'd. 
Shak., Sonnets, xviii. 
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts. 
Milton, P. R., iv. 240. 
And there is then observed the peculiar and dreadful 
calm within the whirl, to which sailors have given the 
name of "the eye of the storm." Science, III. 63. 
lit. A slight or just distinguishable tint of a 
color ; tinge ; shade. 
Ant. The ground, indeed, is tawny. 
Seb. With an eye of green in 't. Shak., Tempest, ii. 1. 
Bed, with an eye of blue, makes a purple. Boyle, Colours. 
12. In Crustacea, a calcareous concretion em- 
bedded in the walls of the stomach. These con- 
cretions are supposed, but not known, to furnish a supply 
of calcareous substance for the formation of the new- 
shell after a molt ; but they are so small that this theory 
is hardly tenable. In the case of the higher crustaceans 
they are more fully called crab's eyes. (See crabl.) In 
the crawfish they are two discoidal plates in the middle 
of the lateral surface of the walls of the anterior dilated 
portion of the cardiac division of the stomach, and weigh 
about two grains. They begin as calcareous deposits un- 
derneath the chitinous gastric lining, and increase until 
the creature molts, when they are also shed, together with 
the lining membrane and gastric armature. A or the 
green eye, jealousy : from the poetic description of jeal- 
ousy as the green-eyed monster. All my eye, or all 1n 
one's eye, entirely in the eye or mind ; seeming ; appa- 
rent, but not real. [Slang.] 
That's all my eye. Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, iii. 
The tenderness of spring is all my eye, 
And that is blighted. Hood, Spring. 
I've lost one eye, but that's a loss it's easy to supply 
Out of the glory thet I've gut, for that is all my eye. 
Lowell, Biglow Papers, 1st ser., viii. 
Apple of the eye. See apple. Artificial eye, an object 
made in imitation of the natural eye. Those used for 
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anatomical purposes are constructed of wax or papier 
mache. For use as substitutes for lost human eyes they 
are made of glass or porcelain. The chief use of artificial 
eyes, however, is for filling the sockets of stuffed animals. 
The simplest are small black glass beads or buttons mount- 
ed on a bit of fine wire. Larger eyes are more elaborately 
made of various shapes, with a close imitation in color of 
the iris or shape of the pupil. At eyet, at a glance. 
The gold of hem hath now so badde alayes 
With bras, that though the coyne be faire at ye., 
It wolde rather brest atwo than plye. 
Chaucer, Clerk's Tale, 1. 1168. 
Axis of the eye. See axisi. Black eye. (o) An eye 
whose iris is black. (6) An eye whose lids and surround- 
ing parts are livid or discolored, as by a blow or bruise. 
(c) Figuratively, defeat ; repulse; injury; disgrace or dis- 
favor ; hence, a shock, as if from a blow on the eye ; as, 
that scheme got a black eye in the committee ; I will give 
him a black eye in print. [Slang.] Body check-chain 
eye, an eyebolt or clevis for fastening a check-chain to the 
car-body. Car-Builder'i Diet., p. 17. By the eyet, in 
abundance. 
Here's a bracelet, and here's two rings more, and here's 
money and gold by th' eye, my boy. 
Beau, and Fl., Knight of Burning Pestle, ii. 2. 
Chambers of the eye. See chamber. Compound eyes, 
in insects, simple eyes or ocelli set so close together that 
their several corneas are in contact, and 
pressed into tetragonal or hexagonal fig- 
ures with slightly convex surfaces, giv- 
ing the eye a faceted appearance, whence 
the n&me faceted eyes. Each cornea then 
answers to one of the faces of a cut bril- 
liant. Behind such a cornea, instead of 
a lens, is placed a transparent pyramid 
whose base corresponds to the cornea, 
and whose apex is directed inward to be 
received into a kind of transparent calyx 
answering to a vitreous body. This last 
is surrounded by another calyx formed 
by the expansion of a nerve-filament aris- 
ing from a ganglion on the end of the 
optic nerve, a short distance from the 
brain. Each lens-like pyramid, with its view), high! 
vitreous body and nerve-filament, is sur- nffied. 
rounded by a choroid coat, usually of a 
brown color. The size and shape of compound eyes, and 
especially the number of their facets, are very variable. 
Different facets of the same eye also vary in size. Crab's 
eye. See def. 12. Dorsal eyes. See dorsal. Evil eye. 
See evill. Eye-and-ear Observation, in astron., an ob- 
servation of the time of passage of a star across a wire, 
made in the following way : The observer, having his eye 
at the telescope, listens to the beats of a clock, and notes 
where the star is at the beat immediately preceding the 
passage, and where it is at the next following beat. He 
mentally divides the space run over in this second rnto 
tenths, and by estimating in what part of it the wire 
lies, he determines the time of the passage to a tenth of 
a second. 
The method of eye-and-ear observation ... is so called 
from the part which both the eye and the ear play in the 
appreciation of intervals of time. The ear catches the 
beat of the clock, the eye fixes the star. 
Newcomb and llolden, Astron., p. 79. 
Faceted eyes. Same as compound eyes (which see, 
above). Flemish eye, a ring formed in a rope's end by 
separating the strands into two parts, joining their ends, 
and wrapping the loop so formed with tarred canvas and 
service. Half an eye, imperfect perception ; limited ob- 
servation, as if with a mere glance of the eye : as, that can 
be seen with half an eye. Lashing-eye, an eye formed on 
the end or ends of a rope, for a lashing to be rove through, 
to set it tight. Sheep's eyes. See sheep. Simple eye, 
in entom., an ocellus orstemma. (See def. Land cut under 
falx.) In arachnidans the eyes are always simple, and have 
the same structure as those of crustaceans. These eyes 
of 
Compound Eye 
eyebright 
dust in one's eyes. See di. To wipe the or one's 
eye. (a) To shoot at game which rises within range of 
another shooter and should be left to him. [Colloq. ] 
If you do perchance wipe the eye, as it is vulgarly call- 
ed, of another shooter, take no notice of it, treat it as an 
accident, apologize, say you fired by mistake. 
Sir K. Payne-Galluvy, .Shooting, I. 128. 
(d) To take the conceit out of a person ; show one how 
foolish one is : as, to wipe one's eye for him. [Slang.] 
eye 1 (5), v. ; pret. and pp. eyed, ppr. eying (some- 
times eyeing). [First in mod. E.; = D. oogen = 
Dan. ojne, eye, see ; from the noun. Cf. ogle.] I. 
trans. 1. To fix the eye on ; look at; view; ob- 
serve; particularly, to observe or watch nar- 
rowly or with fixed attention. 
Wherefore cy'tt him so? Shak., Cymbeline, v. 6. 
The Duke of York, who did eye my wife mightily. 
Pepys, Diary, IV. 149. 
The wild-cat in the cherry-tree anear 
Eyed the brown lynx that waited for the deer. 
William Morris, Earthly Paradise, II. 176. 
2. To make an eye in : as, to eye a needle. 
H.t intrans. To be seen; appear; have an 
appearance. 
My becomings kill me, when they do not 
Eye well to yon. Shak., A. and C., i. 3. 
eye 2 (1), n. [A corruption due to misdividing 
a nye as an eye, a nest, as eyas of nias, nyas: 
see nye, nide, nidus.] A brood: as, an eye or a 
shoal of fish. 
They say a Bevie of Larkes, even as a Covey of Par- 
tridge, or an eye of Pheasaunts. 
Spenser, Shep. Cal., April, Glosse. 
Or, If you chance where an eye of tame pheasants 
Or partridges are kept, see they be mine. 
Fletcher, Beggars' Bush, II. 1. 
Same as brifi, 2. 
The ball or globe of the 
eye ; the globus 
oculi: so called 
from its glo- 
bular or spher- 
ical shape, as 
in man and 
many other 
animals. In ani- 
mals below mam- 
mals it is often 
strengthened and 
molded into a par- 
ticular form by 
the ossification of 
a part of the scle- 
rotic tissue. These 
scleroskeletal eye- 
bones are flattened 
plates disposed in Muscles of Left Human Eyeball, 
a ring around the *" superior oblique ; ie, inferior oblique ; 
on p n Thpforp ".superiorrectus.passmgthrougr, atrocftlea 
cornea in the fore or pu i le , ; ^ m fo ior rect us; *, internal 
part Of_the SCle- rectus: ^.external rectus;/. frontal sinus: 
*rt, maxillary sinus ; o, optic nerve. 
_ 
eyebait (i'bat), n. 
io 
especially when they are numerous, as six or eight often 
furnish important characters in classification, as in spi- 
rotic. They are 
numerous and 
well marked in all birds, many reptiles, etc. See eyel. 
'Tis not your inky brows, your black silk hair, 
Your bugle eyeballs, nor your cheek of cream, 
That can entame my spirits to your worship. 
Shak., As yon Like it, iii. 6. 
eye-bar (i'bar), n. A rod of steel or iron having 
which is a hole or eye, used in forming the mem- 
bers of a bridge or other structure. 
under embolon) ; so at one time in Britain ; and in Spanish 
and Italian boats and Chinese junks the practice still ob- 
tains. The hawse-holes are also called the eyes. The 
mind's eye, intellectual sight or perception ; the faculty 
of mental comprehension. 
Ham. My father ! methinks I see my father. 
Hor. Where, my lord ? 
Ham. In my mind's eye, Horatio. 
SAo*., Hamlet, i. 2. 
The naked eye. See naked. To bat the eyes, to 
blear one's eyest, to clap eyes on, to cry one's eyes 
out. See the verbs. To find favor in the eyes of, to 
be graciously received and treated by. To go eye out, 
to swim quickly with much of the head and body exposed, 
making the eyes visible, as a cetacean : a whaling term. 
iv. 3. 
eye-bitingt (i'bi"ting), a. and ra. I. a. Casting 
the evil eye; fascinating; bewitching. 
Calling them eye-biting witches. 
Adty, Candle in the Dark, p. 104. 
II. . See the extract. 
with the idea of possessing or accomplishing, or of guard- 
ing or taking care of : as, he had long had an eye to the 
property ; have an eye to the child in my absence. To 
have in one's eye, to have under observation or in con- 
templation ; have the eye or the mind flxed upon, with 
reference to some ulterior purpose : as, beware, for I have 
you in my eye; he has a promising scheme in his eye. 
To have one's eye on, or to keep an eye on, to watch ; 
observe closely. 
Thoreau, on Walden Pond, reading the Greek poets and 
keeping an eye on the musk-rat and the squirrel and other 
like visitors, was free of a much larger world than many 
who have been round the globe. N. A. Rev., CXXXIX. 21!). 
To look babies in one's eyes, to look for Cupids in 
the eyes. See baby, 3. To meet the eye. See meet. 
To put the finger in the eyet. See fmger.fo set or 
lay eyes on, to have a sight of. [Colloq.] To throw 
A bewitching or eye-biting: a disease wherewith chil- 
dren waxe leane and pine away, the originall whereof 
they in olde time referred to the crooked and wry lookes 
of envious and malicious people. Nomenclator, 1585. 
eye-bolt (I'bolt), . A bolt having an eye or 
ring at one end. 
eye-bone (i'bon), n. A scleroskeletal ossifica- 
tion in the sclerotic coat of the eyeball of some 
animals, as birds and reptiles ; a sclerotal. See 
eyeball and eye 1 . 
eye-bree (i'bre), . [Now only So. ; also writ- 
ten eyebrei, eyebrie; < eye 1 + bree&, var. of brow: 
see brow.] An eyelid. 
The lifting up of her eyes and in her eye-breis. 
T. Wright, Passions of the Mind (2d ed. 1604), 1. 7. 
Into the same hue do they dye their eye-breis and eye- 
brows ; so doe they the hair of their heads. 
Sandys, Travailes, p. 63. 
eyebright (i'brit), n. The popular name of the 
plant Euphrasia officinalis. Also called eyewort. 
Jesus cured a blind man with a collyrium of spittle, 
salutary as balsam, or the purest eyebright. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835). I. 268. 
