EYE 
EYE 
I’ll fay yon grey is not the morning’s eye, 
’Tis but the pale reflex of Cynthia’s brow. Shake/peare. 
Front ; face : 
To juftify this worthy nobleman, 
Her (hall you hear disproved to your eyes. Shake/peare. 
A pofture of direct oppofition, where one tiling is in the 
fame line with another: 
Now pafs’d, on either fide, they nimbly tack. 
Both drive to intercept and guide the wind ; 
And in its eye more clofely they come back, 
To finilh all the deaths they left behind. Dryden. 
Afpedt; regard.—The man that is tender among you, and 
very delicate, his eyes fhall not be evil towards his brother. 
Deut. —He that hath a bountiful eye (hall be blefled. Prov. 
—Winds and hurricanes at land, tempefls and florins at 
fea, have always been looked upon with as evil an eye as 
earthquakes. Woodward. —We were the ntoft obedient crea¬ 
tures in the world, conftant to our duty, and kept a fteady 
eye on the end for which we were fent hither. SpcBator. — 
Notice; obfervation ; vigilance; watch.—Teaching chil¬ 
dren by a repeated pradtice, under the eye and diredtion cf 
the tutor, ’till they have got the habit of doing well, has 
many advantages. Locke. 
Mifdonbt my conftancy ; and do not try; 
But flay, and ever keep me in your eye. Dryden. 
Opinion formed by obfervation.—I w-as as far from medi¬ 
tating a war, as I was, in the eye of the yvorld, from having 
any preparations for one. King Charles. 
Though he in all the people’s eyes feem’d great. 
Yet greater he appear’d in his retreat. Denham. 
Sight; view ; the place in which any thing may be feen: 
There (hall he pradtife tilts and tournaments, 
Hear fweet difeourfe, converfe with noblemen ; 
And be, in eye of every exercife, 
Worthy his youth and noblenefs of birth. Shake/peare. 
Any thing formed like an eye.—We fee colours like the 
eye of a peacock’s feather, by prefling our eyes on either 
corner, whilft we look the other way. Newton. —Any fmall 
perforation.—This Ajax has not fo much wit as will flop 
the eye of Helen’s needle. Shake/peare .—A fmall catch in¬ 
to which a hook goes.—Thofe parts, if they cohere to 
one another but by reft only, may be much more eafily 
diffociated, and put into motion by any external body, 
than they could be, if they were, by little hooks and eyes, 
entangled in one another. Boyle. —Bud of a plant.—Prune 
and cut ofF all your vine (hoots to the very root, fave one 
or two of the ftouteft, to be left with three or four eyes of 
young wood. Evelyn .—A fmall (hade of colour.—Red 
with an eye of blue makes a purple. Boyle .—Power of per¬ 
ception.—The eyes of your underltanding being enlight¬ 
ened. Eph. i.—A gift doth blind the eyes of the wife. 
Deut. xvi. 19. 
To EYE, v. a. To watch ; to keep in view ; to ob- 
ferve; to look on ; to gaze on : 
Bid the cheek be ready with a blufti, 
Modeft as morning, when (lie coldly eyes 
The youthful Phoebus. Shake/peare. 
Eye nature’s walks, (hoot folly as it flies. 
And catch the manners living as they rife. Pope. 
To EYE, v.n. To appear; to (liow ; to bear an ap. 
pearance. Not u/ed: 
Forgive me, 
Since my becomings kill me when they do not 
Eye well to you. Shake/peare. 
“ The mafler’s EYE~makes the horfe fat.”—The Latins 
fay, 0 cuius viag’/rifaginat equum. The Greeks, O ra ^so-voth 
opSaty-o; iTrarov wiami. The French, L'ceil du maitre eiu 
graij/e le cheval. The defign of this proverb is to admonifli 
all men to have a watchful eye over their own concerns ; 
and not to entruft too much to others that they are capa- 
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ble of performing better themfelves: but above all, 
never to leave your eftate to the exclufive management of 
your ftew'ard. 
One EyE-witnefs is better than ten hearfays : which 
the Latins exprefs by faying, Pluris e/ oculatus tejlis units, 
quam auriti decern. Plant. And the French, Un temoin 
oculaire vaut mieux'que dix qviparle par oui-dire. Relations 
of things are fo liable to be varied by frequent repetition, 
by prejudice, or interefted views, that it is but common 
prudence to be cautious how we give credit to tales re¬ 
lated to 11s upon hearfay evidence. 
What the Eye fees not, the heart rues not.—This 
proverb is commonly applied to filthy cooks, andflovenly 
fervants, but who mean well ; whence it is faid to be 
good fometimes to wink or fliut one’s eyes ; and not pry 
too narrowly into trifling things, which may give 11s more 
uneafinefs than they are worth, efpecially if they are of 
fuch a nature that either there is no remedy againft them, 
or if there be it is as bad or worfe than the difeafe. 
The Spaniards fay, Lo que los ojos r.oveen , coracon no dej/'ea.. 
EYE, an ancient borough town in Suffolk, twenty-two 
miles from Ipfwich, and ninety-one from London. It may 
be called an ifland, being furrounded by a brook, near 
the borders of Norfolk, between Ipfwich and Norwich. 
It was incorporated by king John, and isgoverned by two 
bailiffs, ten principal burgefles, twenty-four common- 
council, a recorder, and town-clerk. The right of elec¬ 
tion extends to the inhabitants paying fcotand lot. The 
greateft part of the town is the property of marquis 
Cornwallis, who receives the title of baron from this 
place. It enjoys feveral privileges at prefent, but they 
were formerly much more extenfive. The chief manu¬ 
facture is bone-lace and fpinning. Here is a large hand- 
fome church, and near it the ruinous walls of an ancient 
caftle and monaftery. The market is on Saturdays ; fair 
on Whit-Monday. 
EYE, a town of Norway: thirty-fix miles fouth of 
Bergen. 
EYE, a river of Scotland, in the county of Berwick, 
which runs into the fea at Eyemouth. 
EY'EB ALL, /. The apple of the eye ; the pupil: 
I feel my hair grow ftiff, my eyeballs roll : 
This is the only form could (hake my foul. Dryden. 
EYEBER'GEN, a town of the united Dutch dates, 
in the county of Zutphen, fituated on the Berkel: five 
miles ea(t of Borckeloe. 
EY'EBRIGHT,y. in botany. See Euphrasia. 
EY'EBROW, /. The hairy arch over the eye.—On 
the feventh day he (hall (have all his hair off his head, 
his beard, and his eyebrows. Lev. xiv. 9. 
EY'ED, adj. Having eyes : ufedjn compofition : 
I’ll not be made a foft and dull-ejv’r/ fool, 
To (hake the head, relent, and figh, and yield 
To Chriftian intercelfors. Shake/peare . 
EY'EDROP,/. A tear : 
That tyranny which never q.uaft but blood, 
Would, by beholding him, have wafti’d his knife, 
With gentle eye-drops. Shake/peare. 
EY'EFLAP, /. in the manege, a piece of leather that 
covers the eve of a coach-horfe. 
EY'EGLANCE, /. Qmck notice of the eye : 
His countenance was bold, and baffled not 
For Guyon’s looks ; but lcornful eyeglance at him (hot. 
Fairy Qiieen. 
EY'EGLASS, /. Spectacles ; glafs to aflift the fight 3 
Ha’ you not feen Camillo ? 
But that’s pad doubt you have ; or your eyegla/s 
Is thicker than a cuckold’s horn. Shake/peare, 
EY'ELASH,/! The line of hair that edges the eyelid. 
EY'ELESS, adj. Wanting eyes ; (ightlefs ; deprived 
of fight.—The cheated people, and the eyele/s guide. 
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