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Marked with spots like eyes. Junno's bird, in her eye-spotted train. Spenser.

One of the movable peduncles which, in the decapod Crustacea, bear the eyes at the tip.

lum of a small shell of the family Tubinid, used to remove a foreign sub stance from the eye. It is rut into the inner corner of the eye under the lid, and allowed to work its way out at the outer corner, bringing with the substance.

The tendon by which the eye is moved. Shak.

An island. See Eyot.

A canine tooth of the upper jaw. See Teeth. To cut one's eyeteeth, to become acute or knowing. [Colloq.]

See Eyewater.

A wash or lotion for application to the eyes.

A wink; a token. Shak.

An eyelash. [A child's word.]

One who sees a thing done; one who has ocular view anything. We . . . were eyewitnesses of his majesty. 2 Pet. i. 16.

Plural of eye; obsolete, or used only in poetry. Shak. With such a plaintive gaze their eyne Are fastened upwardly on mine. Mrs. Browning.

Gross; lubberly. Peace, ye fat-kidneyed rascal ! Shak.

A second raampart, exterior to, and parallel to, the main rampart, and considerably below its level.

See Fa.

The people called Amazons. [Obs.] "[The reign of] feminye." Chaucer.

The spur-winged goose; -- so called from the red circle around the eyes.

To feast; to entertain. [Obs.] Chaucer.

A name given in the East and West Indies to certain trees with brilliant blossoms, probably species of Cæsalpinia.

One who strips off the skin.