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to be reluctant. "If any one among you hangs back." Jowett (Thucyd.). -- To hang by the eyelids. (a) To hang by a very slight hold or tenure. (b) To be in an unfinished condition; to be left incomplete. -- To hang in doubt, to be in suspense. -- To hang on (with the emphasis on the preposition), to keep hold; to ho…

ed to a lachrymal gland on the inner side of the orbit of many animals which have a third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

The third eyelid, or nictitating membrane. See Nictitating membrane, under Nictitate.

A small tumor upon the eyelid, resembling a grain of barley; a sty.

Brazilian frog (Ceratophrys cornuta), having a pair of triangular horns arising from the eyelids. -- Horned grebe (Zoöl.), a species of grebe (Colymbus auritus), of Arctic Europe and America, having two dense tufts of feathers on the head. -- Horned horse (Zoöl.), the gnu. -- Horned lark (Zoöl.), the shore lark. -…

nd other ingredients, used by Egyptian and other Eastern women to darken the edges of the eyelids.

A hair growing from the edge of the eyelid; an eyelash.

A muscle that serves to raise some part, as the lip or the eyelid.

The cover of the eye; an eyelid. Shak. Tears, big tears, gushed from the rough soldier's lid. Byron.

ng to, or discovered by, Meibomius. Meibomian glands, the slender sebaceous glands of the eyelids, which discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.

neath the lower lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.

onasal, nerve, a division of the trigeminal, which gives branches to the lachrymal gland, eyelids, nose, and forehead. Ophthalmic region (Zoöl.), the space around the eyes.

Having the form of an orb; round. The orbèd eyelids are let down. Trench.

The eyelid.

Of or pertaining to the eyelids.

Having eyelids.

A very vascular superficial opacity of the cornea, usually caused by granulation of the eyelids. Foster.

A growing together of parts; specifically, a morbid adhesion of the eyelids to each other or to the eyeball. Dunglison.

Drooping of the upper eyelid, produced by paralysis of its levator muscle.

A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.