eyebright 
Spotted eyebright, a name sometimes given to Euphor- 
bia maculata and E. tiuinistrala, from a dark spot upon 
the leaf. 
eye-brightening (i'brit'ning), a. Clearing the 
sight. 
As it had been some eye-brightening electuary of know- 
ledge and foresight. Milton, Church-Government. 
eyebrow (i'brou), n. [< ME. egebrew, < AS. ed- 
yanbregh, prop, "edganbraw (= OHG. ougbrdwa, 
ougbrda, oucprd, MHG. ougebrd, oucbrd, G. aug- 
brauc, aiii/cubraue, augbraune = Icel. augabrun 
= Dan. ojenbryn = Sw. ogotibryn), < edge, eye, 
+ briew, brow : see eye 1 and brow, and cf . eye- 
bree.] 1. The brow, or prominence of parts, 
over the eye ; a prominent superorbital forma- 
tion; a superciliary ridge or shield, in man the 
bony basis of the eyebrow is the frontal l me along the up- 
per margin of the orbits, made somewhat more prominent 
by the development of the frontal sinuses or hollows with- 
in the bone. (See cut under skull.) The projection, how- 
ever, is slight in comparison with the beetling superorbital 
ridges of many animals, as the gorilla. In birds, and in 
many reptiles and fishes, the eyebrow is a separate forma- 
tion of a bone, or chain of bones, along the upper edge 
of the orbit, whose nature is that of the lacrymal bone. 
These are known as superorbitals, or superorbital bones 
or ossicles. (See cut under Lepidosiren.) One such bone 
forms the movable superciliary shield of some birds, as 
eagles, projecting like the eaves of a roof over the eye. 
The eyebrows include the soft parts, as flesh and skin, 
which cover the bone. See superdlium. 
2. A fringe of hairs growing on the brow of the 
eye ; the supercilia. See cut under eye 1 . 
He dragg'd his eyebrow bushes down, and made 
A snowy penthouse for his hollow eyes. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
3. In ornith., a superciliary streak of color, 
eye-case (i'kas), n. In entom., that part of the 
integument of a pupa covering the eye. 
eye-copy (i'kop"i), n. A copy not made by 
photograph or mechanical appliance, but by 
the hand, guided only by the eye. [Rare.] 
The collected fragments, together with a somewhat im- 
perfect squeeze taken before the stone was broken up, 
and an early eye-copy of a portion of the inscription, are 
now exhibited side by side in one of the ground-floor 
rooms at the Louvre. Isaac Taylor, The Alphabet, I. 207. 
eyed (id), a. [< AS. -edged, -eged, in comp., < 
edge, eye, + -erf 2 .] Having eyes, or marked 
with eye-like spots ; furnished with eyes : used 
separately and in composition : as, a dull-eyed 
man ; ox-eyed Juno ; the eyed or ocellated blen- 
ny. See cut under ocellate. 
He is in deede prouyd a good knyht, 
Eied as argus with reson and forsiht. 
Babees Book (E. E. T. 8.), p. cxix. 
A wild and wanton pard, 
Eyed like the evening star, with playful tail 
Crouch'd fawning in the weed. Tennyson, (Enone. 
Dark, jewelled women, orient-ei/d. 
0. W. Holmes, At the Pantomime. 
eye-doctor (i'dok"tor), . An oculist. [Colloq.] 
eye-dotter (i'dot"er), n. A small brush used in 
graining wood in imitation of bird's-eye maple. 
Some grainers use small brushes called maple eye-dot- 
ters, instead of the fingers, for forming the eyes. 
Workshop Receipts, 1st ser.,p. 422. 
eye-drop (I' drop), . A tear. [Rare.] 
That tyranny, which never quaff'd but blood, 
Would, by beholding him, have wash'd his knife 
With gentle eye-drops. Shak., 2 Hen. IV., iv. 4. 
eye-eminence (i'em'i-nens), n. A prominence 
on which the eyes are situated in certain Arach- 
nida, especially the Pedipalpi. Also called the 
ocular tubercle. 
eye-flap (i'flap), . A blinder or blinker on a 
horse's bridle. 
eyefult (I'f ul), a. [< eye 1 + -ful.] Filling or at- 
tractive to the eye ; visible ; remarkable. 
With this, he hung them up aloft upon a tamrick bough 
As eyeful trophies. Chapman, Iliad, x. 396. 
eye-glance (i'glans), . A glance of the eye ; a 
rapid look. 
And ever, as Dissemblaunce laught on him, 
He lowrd on her with daungerous eyeglaunee. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. xil. 15. 
eye-glass (1'glas), . 1. A lens made of crown- 
glass or rock crystal, used to assist the sight by 
correcting defects of vision. Eye-glasses are either 
single, and held between the projection of the brow and 
the cheek, or double, and kept in position by a spring, 
which compresses the nose. They are commonly distin- 
guished from spectacles, which are held by pieces of metal 
passing over the ears. Formerly eye-glasses had to be kept 
in place by the hand. 
I remember noticing his way of giving an odd wrinkle 
to the upper part of his face, so that his eye-classes flew 
off with a click. Quoted in Merriam's Bowles, II. 71. 
2. The eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, or 
similar instrument. 
The Gregorian construction . . . appeared to him [New- 
ton] to have such disadvantages that he "saw it necessary 
to alter the design, and place the eye-nlass at the side of 
the tube." Amer. Cyc. (ed. 1876), XV. 625. 
2105 
3. In surg., a glass for the application of a col- 
lyrium to the eye. 4f. The lens of the eye. 
Have not you seen, Camillo, 
(But that's past doubt you have ; or your eye-glass 
Is thicker tluui a cuckold's horn). Shak., W. T., i. 2. 
eye-glutting (i'gluf'ing), a. Filling or satis- 
fying the eye. [Rare.] 
" Mammon" (said he), " thy godheads vaunt is vaine, 
And idle otters of thy golden fee ; 
To them that covet such eye-yluttinrj gaine 
Proffer thy giftes." Spenser, F. Q., II. vii. 9. 
eyehole (I'hol), n. 1. A hole or an opening, 
as in a mask, or in a curtain or door, through 
which one may look ; a peep-hole. 2. A circu- 
lar opening, as in a bar, to receive a pin, hook, 
rope, or ring ; an eye. 3. One of the three ori- 
fices of a eocoanut. Darwin. Also eye-spot. 
eyeing (i'ing), . The process of punching eyes 
in needles. 
eyelash (I'lash), n. 1. One of the small hairs 
or bristles which grow in a row, or in rows, on 
the edges of the eyelids ; a cilium of the eye- 
lid ; a lash. 
Blepharitis, or inflammation of the follicles of the eye- 
lashes, has received a great variety of names. 
Quain, Med. Diet. 
2. Either one of the two rows or lines of hairs 
which respectively fringe the upper and lower 
eyelid ; the superior or inferior cilia ; a series 
of eyelashes collectively. See cut under eye 1 . 
Pale with the golden beam of an eyelash dead on the cheek. 
Tennyson, Maud, iii. 
The languid eye with drooping eyelash, if it expresses 
beauty, is never dull. A. Phelps, Eng. Style, p. 298. 
eye-lens (i'lenz), n. 1. The cornea or exterior 
lens of an insect's eye ; a cornea-lens or cor- 
neule. Packard. 2. The lens, as of a micro- 
scope, to which the eye is applied, 
eyeless (I'les), a. [< eye 1 + -less.'] Wanting 
eyes ; destitute of sight. 
Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him 
Eyeless in Gaza at the mill with slaves. 
Milton, S. A., 1. 41. 
eyelet (i'let), n. [An accom. (as if < eye 1 + 
dim. -let) of earlier oilet, oylet.oyliet, oillet, oelct, 
< ME. oylet, olyet, a hole, < OF. oeillet, F. ceillet, 
dim. of OF. oeil, F. ceil, < L. oculus, eye: see 
eye 1 .'} 1 . A small aperture ; specifically, a small 
round hole worked round the edge like a but- 
tonhole, used in dressmaking, sailmaking, an$i 
the like. Also eyelet-hole. 
Winding up his mouth, 
From time to time, into an orifice 
Most delicate, a lurking eyelet, small. 
Wordsworth, Prelude, vii. 
2. A metallic ring designed to be placed in a 
perforation called an eyelet-hole, in cloth, lea- 
ther, etc., for the passage of a lace, cord, or 
small rope ; also, a similar ring used for fas- 
tening together sheets of paper, etc. it is made 
as an extremely short tube, the edges of which are pressed 
over and outward so as to clasp the material to which it 
is applied. 
3. In entom. : (a) A small eye or ocellate spot; 
a small spot with a central dot of another color. 
(6) An ocellus or simple eye. 
eyeleteer (i-le-ter'), . [< eyelet + -eer.~\ A 
small pointed instrument for piercing eyelet- 
holes. 
eyelet-hole (i'let-hol), n. [Formerly oilet-ltole, 
oyliet-hole; < oilet, now eyelet, + hole 1 , the sec- 
ond part being explanatory of the first.] 1. 
Same as eyelet, 1. 
His Oylet-holes are more, and ampler : 
The King's own Body was a Samplar. 
Prior, Alma, ii. 
2. A hole in a fabric, piece of leather, etc., in 
which an eyelet is or may be placed. 
Slitting the back and fingers of a glove, I made eyelet- 
holes to draw it close. Wiseman, Surgery. 
eyeleting-machine (i'let-ing-ma-shen''), . A 
machine for inserting and fixing eyelets in boots 
and shoes. The improved form is self -feeding. 
eyeliadt, See eyliad. 
eyelid (i'lid), n. [< ME. egelid, ehelid, eelid, 
eeled (= OFries. aghlid, dchlid = D. ooglid = G. 
augenlid) ; < eye 1 + lid."] The cover of the eye ; 
that portion of movable skin with which an an- 
imal covers the eyeball or uncovers it at plea- 
sure. It serves the purposes of protecting and wiping 
the ball of the eye, as well as of moistening it by spread- 
ing the lacrymal fluid over its surface. Eyelids occur 
in mammals, birds, most reptiles, and Amphibia, not in 
Ophidia and true fishes. They are generally two in num- 
ber, upper and lower, formed of ordinary skin and a layer 
of conjunctiva, stiffened or not with cartilage, and fur- 
nished with appropriate muscles, glands, etc. ; they are 
technically called palpebrte. Some animals, as birds, have 
a third eyelid, the nictitating membrane, a fold of con- 
junctiva capable of being swept obliquely across the front 
of the eyeball ; some mammals possess it imperfectly de- 
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veloped, as the horse. A similar structure defends the 
eye of some sharks, though seldom called eyelid. Ser- 
pents have no proper eyelids, because the cuticle con- 
tinues unbroken over the eyeball. See cut under eye\. 
Is it thy will thy image should keep open 
My heavy eyelids to the weary night? 
Shak., Sonnets, Ixi. 
He saw 
The slow tear creep from her closed eyelid yet. 
Tennyson, Merlin and Vivien. 
Eversion of the eyelid. See eversion. To hang by 
the eyelids, to be loosely attached ; be loosened ; be 
ready to fall. [Colloq. J 
I came by accident upon a magic quarto, shabby enough 
in its exterior, with one of the covers hanging by the eye- 
lids, and otherwise sadly battered. 
J. T. Fields, Underbrush, p. 11. 
eye-line (i'lin), n. In hemipterous insects, an 
imaginary straight line extending from the eye 
to the origin of the labrum. The position of the an- 
tennae, above or below the eye-lines, has been used as a 
character in classification. 
eye-lobe (i'lob), . In trilobites, one of the 
pair of lateral lobes of the head on which the 
eye is placed. 
eyemarkt (i'mark), n. An object gazed at; a 
spectacle. 
Will you stand rhyming there upon a stage, to be an 
eyemark to all that pass? Chapman, May-Day, iii. 3. 
eye-memory (i'mem/'o-ri), . Memory for what 
is seen by the eye. 
Visual perception or eye-memory. 
Nature, XXXVII. 562. 
eyenti n. An obsolete or archaic plural of eye 1 . 
eye-opener (i' opener), n. Something that 
causes the eyes to open, or that opens the eyes, 
literally or figuratively, (a) A marvelous narrative or 
Incident, or a disclosure of some wrong done or evil threat- 
ables one to comprehend what before he had failed to see 
the meaning of ; that which gives one sudden discernment 
as to things with which he has to do : as, overhearing that 
remark proved an eye-opener to me. [Colloq.] 
eyepiece (i'pes), n. In an optical instrument, 
the lens or combination of lenses to which the 
eye is applied Collimating eyepiece. See cotti- 
mating. Diagonal eyepiece, one which by means of a re- 
flector deflects the emergent rays at right angles. Erect- 
Ing or terrestrial eyepiece, one which presents the ob- 
ject erect instead of Inverted : used in spy-glasses. Huy- 
geniau eyepiece, a common form of negative eyepiece 
composed of two planoconvex lenses with their convexi- 
ties turned away from the eye. Negative eyepiece, a 
combination of lenses which intercepts the rays from the 
objective before they come to a focus, and forms the focal 
Image within itself: there are numerous forms. Posi- 
tive eyepiece, one which views an image formed outside 
of itself, and so can be used with a reticle or micrometer. 
Ramsden's eyepiece, a common form of positive eye- 
piece composed of two planoconvex lenses with their 
plane surfaces turned outward. (There are numerous 
special forms of eyepiece, designated by trade-names, as 
euryscopic, monoccntric, orthoscopic, solid, etc.) 
eye-pit (I'pit), n. The orbit or socket of the 
eye. 
Their eyes did wander and fix no where, till shame 
made them sink into their hollow eye-pits. 
Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 620. 
eye-point (i'point), n. An eye-spot ; an ocellus, 
eyer* (i'er), n. One who eyes or watches 
closely. 
The suitor was a diligent eyer of her. 
Gayton, Notes on Don Quixote, p. 47. 
eyer 2 t, n. An obsolete spelling of air 1 . 
eyer 3 t, n. An obsolete spelling of heir. 
eye-reach (i'rech), n. The range or reach of 
the eye ; extent of vision ; eyeshot. 
Is not he blest 
That gets a seat in eye-reach of him ? 
B. Jonson, Sejanus, v. 10. 
eye-salve (I'sav), n. A medicated salve for the 
eyes. 
If we will but purge with sovrain eye-salve that intellec- 
tual ray which God liath planted in us, then we would be- 
leeve the Scriptures protesting their own plainnes and 
perspicuity. Milton, Reformation in Eng., i. 
eye-servant (i'ser^vant), n. A servant who at- 
tends to his duty only when watched, or under 
the eye of his master or employer. , 
eye-server (i'ser*ver), n. Same as eye-servant. 
The man who loiters when the master is away is an eye- 
server, which, I take it, is the opposite of a Christian. 
C. H. Spurgeon, John Ploughman's Talks, p. 15. 
eye-service (i'ser'vis), n. 1. Service perform- 
ed only under inspection of the eye of an em- 
ployer or master. 
Servants, obey in all things your masters. . . . Not with 
eye-service, as men-pleasers ; but in singleness of heart, 
fearing God. Col. iii. 22. 
It is but an eye-service, whatsoever is compelled and in- 
voluntary. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 61. 
2. Homage paid with the eyes. [Rare.] 
