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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.

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

ulum 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.