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ere there is the barking of the belly, there no other commands will be heard, much less obeyed. Fuller.

A disease characterized by enlargement of the thyroid gland, prominence of the eyeballs, and inordinate action of the heart; -- called also exophthalmic goiter. Flint.

A group of Pulmonifera having the eyes at the base of the tentacles, including the common pond snails.

To apply water or some liquid medicament to; as, to bathe the eye with warm water or with sea water; to bathe one's forehead with camphor.

Resembling beads; small, round, and glistening. "Beady eyes." Thackeray.

An assemblage or graces or properties pleasing to the eye, the ear, the intellect, the æsthetic faculty, or the moral sense. Beauty consists of a certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder. Locke. The production of beauty by a multiplicity of symmetrical parts uniting in a consistent whole…

made of the fur of the beaver, but now usually of silk. A brown beaver slouched over his eyes. Prescott.

To make swollen and disfigured or sullied by weeping; as, her eyes or cheeks were beblubbered.

To cause obscurity or dimness to; to dim; to cloud. If thou becloud the sunshine of thine eye. Quarles.

To have in sight; to see clearly; to look at; to regard with the eyes. When he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived. Num. xxi. 9. Behold the Lamb of God, which taketh away the sin of the world. John. i. 29.

hine ear to supplication." Milton. Towards Coventry bend we our course. Shak. Bending her eyes . . . upon her parent. Sir W. Scott.

cope, fitted with two tubes joining, so as to enable a person to view an object with both eyes at once; a double- barreled field glass or an opera glass.

Having two eyes. "Most animals are binocular." Derham.

Having two eyes.

Having two ocelli (eyelike spots); -- said of a wing, etc.

Having an eyelike spot on the wing, with two dots within it of a different color, as in some butterflies.

lor, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

Having black eyebrows. Hence: Gloomy; dismal; threatening; forbidding. Shak. Dryden.

ce, the object to which anything is directed. Let me still remain The true blank of thine eye. Shak.

nfluence by blarney; to wheedle with smooth talk; to make or accomplish by blarney. "Blarneyed the landlord." Irving. Had blarneyed his way from Long Island. S. G. Goodrich.