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A circular opening to recive a hook, cord, ring, or rope; an eyelet.

The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

Without eyes; blind. "Eyeless rage." Shak.

the ends of which can be bent outward and over to fasten it in place; -- used to line an eyelet hole. Eyelet hole, a hole made for an eyelet. -- Eyelet punch, a machine for punching eyelet holes and fastening eyelets, as in paper or cloth. -- Eyelet ring. See Eyelet, 2.

A small, sharp-pointed instrument used in piercing eyelet holes; a stiletto.

The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

Eyes. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

The lens, or combination of lenses, at the eye end of a telescope or other optical instrument, through which the image formed by the mirror or object glass is viewed. Collimating eyepiece. See under Collimate. -- Negative, or Huyghenian, eyepiece, an eyepiece consisting of two plano-convex lenses with their curved sur…

One who eyes another. Gayton.

The range or reach of the eye; eyeshot. "A seat in eyereach of him." B. Jonson.

An object of interest to the eye; one wirehaired with the eyes. [Obs.] That's the eye-saint, I know, Among young gallants. Beau. & Fl.

Ointment for the eye.

A servant who attends faithfully to his duty only when watched.

Service performed only under inspection, or the eye of an employer. Not with eyeservice, as menpleasers. Col. iii. 22.

Range, reach, or glance of the eye; view; sight; as, to be out of eyeshot. Dryden.

Sight of the eye; the sense of seeing; view; observation. Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight. Bp. Wilkins.

Something offensive to the eye or sight; a blemish. Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman. L'Estrange.

ce formed by bending a rope's and back, and fastening it into the rope, forming a loop or eye. See Illust. under Splice.

An eyelike spot of color.

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