eye-service 
But none was so well worth eye-service as my own be- 
loved Lorna. JR. D. Blackmore, Lorna Dooue, Ixvi. 
eye-shade (I'shad), . A shade for the eyes. 
Specifically (a) A screen or vizor worn over the eyes as 
a protection from the light. (b) A hood attached to the 
eyepiece of a microscope to prevent the entrance of later- 
al rays to the eye. 
eyeshot (i'shot), . [< eye 1 + shot, n.; after 
gunshot, bowshot, etc.] Sight; view; range of 
vision ; glance of the eye. 
I have preserved many a young man from her eyeshot 
by this means. Spectator. 
How shall I bear the eye-shot of the croud in court ? 
Steele, Lying Lover, v. 1. 
Mr. King stood one side and . . . noted the eye-shots, 
the flashing or the languishing look that kills, and never 
can be called to account for the mischief it does. 
C. D. Warner, Their Pilgrimage, p. 32. 
eyesight (I'sit), n. [< ME. eyesyht, eghesihthe, 
eilisihthe, ehsihthe, etc. ; < eye 1 + sight.] 1. The 
sight of the eye ; view; observation. 
According to the cleanness of my hands in his eyesight. 
Ps. xviii. 24. 
Josephus seta this down from his own eyesight. Wilkins. 
Perhaps one of my own race, perishing within eyesight 
of the smoke of home. R. L. Stevenson, Merry Men. 
2. The sense of seeing; faculty or power of 
vision: as, his eyesight is failing. 
Thoughts, link by link 
Enter through ears and eyesight. 
Wordsworth, Sonnets, ii. 2. 
eyesore (I'sor), n. 1. A sore upon or near the 
eye, as at the corner of the eye or upon an eye- 
lid. Hence 2. Something offensive to the 
eye or sight. 
And is the like conclusion of psalms become now at the 
length an eyesore or a galling to their ears that hear it ? 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 42. 
I'll, by a willing death, remove the object 
That is an eyesore to you. 
Massinger, Roman Actor, iii. 2. 
The Temple erected to Claudius as a badge of thir eter- 
nal slaverie stood a great Eye sore. Milton, Hist. Eng., ii. 
eye-sorrow (i'sor"6), n. An offense or sorrow 
to the eye or sight. [Rare.] 
Saint Antoine turns out, as it has now often done, and, 
apparently with little superfluous tumult, moves eastward 
to that eye-sorrow of Vincennes. 
Carlyle, French Rev., II. iii. 5. 
eye-Speck (i'spek), n. A minute or rudimen- 
tary eye ; an eye-spot or eye-point : as, the pig- 
mented eye-specks of inf usorians. See eye 1 , and 
cut under Balanoglossus. 
eye-speculum (i'spek*u-lum), . In surg., an 
instrument for retracting the lids in operations 
upon the eye. 
eye-splice 
(i'splis), n. 
Naut., a sort 
of eye or cir- 
cle formed by 
splicing the 
end of a rope 
into itself. 
Also called 
spliced eye. 
eye-spot (!'- 
spot J, n. 1 . 
One of the 
rudimentary 
sensory or- 
gans of many 
low animals 
which have 
been supposed to have a visual function. 
eye 1 , and cut under Balanoglossus. 
The author [Romanes] finds that, by cutting off the eye- 
spats from several star-fishes and sea-urchins, they do not 
seek the light thrown into the dish, as is invariably their 
habit when these organs are intact. Science, V. 389. 
2. The rudiment of an eye in the embryo of 
higher animals. 3. An ocellus. 4. In certain 
unicellular algaa, as Volvox, a (usually) reddish 
spot thought to resemble an eye in position and 
appearance. 5. An ocellated or eye-like spot, 
as those on the tail of a peacock. 
On the upper side of the wings are two black eye-spots. 
Harris. 
6. Same as eyehole, 3. 
The three eye-spots seen at the end of a cocoa-nut. 
Zoologist, Aug., 1885, p. 315. 
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eye-spotted (i'spof'ed), a. 
like eyes. 
Marked with spots 
a I, 
Eye-splice. 
a, one strand stuck ; b, all three strands 
stuck once; c, all three strands stuck three 
times (finished splicing). 
See 
Nor Junoes Bird in her ey-spotted traine 
So many goodly colours doth containe. 
Spenser, Muiopotmos, 1. 95. 
eye-stalk (I'stak), . The stem or stalk upon 
which an eye is borne, as in the stalk-eyed crus- 
taceans; the ophthalmite. See cut under stalk- 
eyed. Coues. 
eyestone (I'ston), . A small calcareous body, 
the operculum of small Turbinida;, flat on one 
side and convex on the other, used for removing 
substances from between the eyelid and the eye- 
ball. When put into the inner corner of the eye, it works 
its way out at the outer corner, bringing with it any for- 
eign substance which may be causing irritation. 
Not many people, in any sense of the word, go about 
provided with eyestones against the chance cinders that 
may worry others. Mrs. Whitney, Leslie Goldthwaite, iii. 
eye-string (I'string), n. A muscle by which the 
eye is moved or held in position. 
I would have broke mine eye-strings, crack'd them, but 
To look upon him. /,/;,.. Cymbeline, 1. 4. 
Crack, eye-strings, and your balls 
Drop into earth. B. Jonson, Poetaster, Ind. 
The last words that my dying father spake, 
Before his eye-strings brake, shall not of me 
80 often be remember'd as our meeting. 
Beau, and Ft., Woman-Hater, ii. 1. 
eye-sucker (i'suk'er), . A lernnan cmsta- 
ceous parasite, Lernceonema spratta, which at- 
taches to the eye of the sprat. 
eyet, n. A variant form of eyot, ait. 
eye-tooth (I'toth), n. A tooth under the eye : 
a name given to the two canine teeth of the 
upper jaw, between the incisors and premolars. 
Also called dog-tooth. TO cut one's eye-teeth, or 
to have one's eye : teeth cut. See cut. 
eye-wagest (i'wa' / jez), n. Wages such as eye- 
service deserves. 
They do Him but eye-service, and 
He giveth them but eye-wages. 
Bp. Sanderson, Works, III. 28. 
eye-waiter (i'wa/ter), n. An eye-servant. 
His lordship's indulgence to servants cost him very dear ; 
for most of them were but eye-waiters, and diligent only 
for fear of losing their places, otherwise negligent and 
wasteful. Roger North, Lord Guilford, II. 316. 
eye-wash (i'wosh), n. A medicated water for 
the eyes. 
eye-water (i'wii/ter), . 1. Same as eye-wash. 
2. The fluid refractive media of the eye ; the 
aqueous and vitreous humor. See eye 1 . 
Eye-water ... is often a great annoyance [in taxidermy]. 
This liquor is slightly glairy, or rather glassy, and puts a 
sort of sizing on the plumage difficult to efface. 
Coues, Field Ornith., 1874. 
eye-wink (J'wingk), n. A wink or motion of the 
eyelid ; a hint or token. 
Yet there has been knights, and lords, ami gentlemen, 
with their coaches ; . . . and, I warrant you, they could 
never get an eye-wink of her. Shak., M. W. of W., ii. 2. 
eye-Winker (i'wing'ker), . An eyelash. 
eye-witness (i'wit'nes), n. One who testifies 
to something he has seen. 
For we have not followed cunningly devised fables, when 
we made known unto you the power and coming of our 
Lord Jesus Christ, but were eyeuritnesses of his majesty. 
2 Pet. i. 16. 
This is the most accurate relation of what passed, as to 
matter of fact, from honourable, most ingenuous, and dis- 
intress'd eye-witnesses. 
Evelyn, Enc. between the French and Spanish 
[Ambassadors. 
eyewort (I'wert), n. [Not found in ME. ; < AS. 
eagwyrt, < edge, eye, + wyrt, wort, plant.] Same 
as eyebright. 
eyghet, A Middle English form of eye 1 . 
eyght (at), n. A variant form of eyot, ait. 
eygre, . See eager?. 
eyleH, v. A Middle English form of ail 1 . 
He myght wele a-rise, for hym eyleth noon evell. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), i. 52. 
eyle 2 t. A Middle English form of ail 2 . 
eyliadt (i'li-ad), n. [Also written eyeliad, in 
simulation of eye 1 ; also oeiliad, oeilliad, and <eil- 
lade; < OF. oeillade, F. ceillade, an ogle, < oeil, F. 
ceil, eye : see eyelet, eye 1 ."] An ogle ; a wanton 
glance with the eyes. 
eythe 
Who even now gave me good eyes too ; examined my 
parts with most judicious eyliads. 
Shah.,M. W. of W., i. 4. 
eyne (in), . An archaic plural of eye 1 . 
How can we see with feeble eyne 
The glory of that Majestic Divine? 
>>-/*.>Tr, Heavenly Beauty, 1. 123. 
With such a plaintive gaze their eyne 
Are fastened upwardly on mine. 
Mrs. Browning, My Doves (early edition). 
eyot, n. [Also eyet, eyght, etc., variant spell- 
ings of ait, q. v.] Same as ait. 
eyra (I'ra), . A kind of wild cat, Felis eyra, 
ranging from Texas southward into South 
Eyra (Felis eyra}. 
America, of a uniform reddish color, with an ex- 
tremely longj slender body, long tail, and short 
limbs, especially the fore legs. 
eyrant, a. In her., same as ayrant. 
eyre 1 (ar), n. [An archaic spelling, preserved 
by its legal associations ; < ME. eyre, eire, < AF. 
eire, OF. erre, oire, journey, < L. iter, a journey : 
see errant 2 &nA itinerant. ] 1. A journey or cir- 
cuit. 
We are able to see how the itinerant King gradually 
became a monarch of the modern type. The change may 
be attributed to the growth of the system of missi, of itin- 
erant deputies of the sovereign, his servants, as the Eng. 
lish phrase was, in eyre. 
Maine, Early Law and Custom, p. 183. 
2. A court of itinerant justices. Adjournment 
in eyre. Sec adjournment. Justices In eyre, judges, 
either members of or delegates from the King's Great Court 
or Aula Regia, sent periodically from the capital through- 
out the other counties of the kingdom for the purpose of 
holding court. The regular establishment of this system 
dates from 1176 (22 Hen. II.), and it gave place to sub- 
stantially the present system of assize and nisi prius, un- 
der 13 Edw. I., c. 30. It seems that in the earlier periods, 
when these justices were empowered to levy royal reve- 
nues, remonstrances of the people led to a concession 
that they should make the circuit only once in seven years. 
Later, when the judicial function became more important, 
they were directed by Magna Charta to visit every county 
once a year. 
The eire of justize wende aboute in the londe. 
Robert of Gloucester, p. 517. 
These judges of assise came into use in the room of the 
antient justices in eyre, justiciarii in itinere. 
Blaclcstone, Com., III. iv. 
eyre 2 t, A Middle English spelling of air 1 . 
eyre 3 t, '' An obsolete variant of aery 2 . 
It is reported that the men of the country where the 
Eagle eyrfth, etc. 
Turberville, Booke of Falconrie, etc. (1611), p. 10. 
This is a gentlewoman of a noble house, 
Born to a better fame than you can build her, 
And eyres above your pitch. 
Fletcher, Wit without Money, iv. 4. 
eyre 4 t, n. An obsolete form of heir. 
eyrent, A Middle English plural of egg 1 . 
eyriet, eyryt, Old spellings of aery 2 . 
eyset, . A Middle English form of case. 
eystert, An obsolete form of oyster. 
eytet, a,, and n. An obsolete form of eight 1 . 
eythet, [ME. (rare), < AS. egethe, a harrow 
(cf . egethere, a harrower : words occurring but 
once each, in glosses). = D. egge = LG. egge = 
OHG. egida, etcitha, MHG. egede, egde, eide, G. 
dial, egde, eide, ede (G. egge, < LG.), a harrow; 
cf. L. oeca, Lith. akeczos, a harrow; perhaps ult. 
connected with L. acies, = E. edge: see edge.] 
A harrow. 
Theose foure, the faith to teche, folwede Peers teom, 
And harowede in an hand-whyle, al holy scripture, 
With to [two] ei/theft that thei hadden, an olde and a newe. 
Pitri Plowman (C), xxii. 273. 
