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

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.

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

A simple visual organ found in many invertebrates, consisting of pigment cells covering a sensory nerve termination.

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.

A small, lenticular, calcareous body, esp. an operculum 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.

The lamprey.

e division of fishes which includes the elasmobranchs and ganoids. [Written also Palæichthyes.]

Thrice. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

hecked in normal development at a very early stage; as, spines are aborted branches. The eyes of the cirripeds are more or less aborted in their mature state. Owen.

To deceive; to impose on. [Obs.] Their eyes red and staring, cozened with a moist cloud, and abused by a double object. Jer. Taylor.

Tissue which is not stained by fluid dyes. W. Flemming.

light impressions; acting keenly on the senses; sharp; keen; intense; as, a man of acute eyesight, hearing, or feeling; acute pain or pleasure.

That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering "yes" to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote.

To fix or fasten figuratively; -- with on or upon; as, eyes affixed upon the ground. [Obs.] Spenser.

th the nature of; as, he acted after his kind. He shall not judge after the sight of his eyes. Isa. xi. 3. They that are after the flesh do mind the things of the flesh. Rom. viii. 5.