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A genus of poisonous African serpents, with a horny scale over each eye; the horned viper.

ocess of diagnosticating the condition of the brain by examination of the interior of the eye (as with an ophthalmoscope). Buck.

Iron links bolted to the side of a vessel to bold the dead-eyes connected with the shrouds; also, the channels.

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.

or cavity; as, the chamber of a canal lock; the chamber of a furnace; the chamber of the eye.

which anything passes; means of passing, conveying, or transmitting; as, the news was conveyed to us by different channels. The veins are converging channels. Dalton. At best, he is but a channel to convey to the National assembly such matter as may import that body to know. Burke.

were throughout the world but one sort of character for each letter to express it to the eye. Holder.

lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.

ing a changeable, varying luster, or color, like that of a changeable silk, or oa a cat's eye in the dark.

Of comparatively small value; common; mean. You grow cheap in every subject's eye. Dryden. Dog cheap, very cheap, -- a phrase formed probably by the catachrestical transposition of good cheap. [Colloq.]

fly after other birds. And like the haggard, check at every feather That comes before his eye. Shak.

The side of the face below the eye.

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

Funnel-shaped; -- applied particularly to a hollow muscle attached to the ball of the eye in many reptiles and mammals.

ion; as, the choroid plexuses of the ventricles of the brain, and the choroid coat of the eyeball. -- n.

arieties of garden chrysanthemums (annual and perennial), and also the feverfew and the oxeye daisy.

ndance on the Atlantic coast, but absent in others; -- called also bull mackerel, thimble-eye, and big-eye mackerel. -- Chub sucker (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish of the United States (Erimyzon sucetta); -- called also creekfish.

rom chyme by the action of the intestinal juices. It is absorbed by the lacteals, and conveyed into the blood by the thoracic duct.

The eyelashes.

Pertaining to the cilia, or eyelashes. Also applied to special parts of the eye itself; as, the ciliary processes of the choroid coat; the ciliary muscle, etc.