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Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, the Arthrostraca.

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a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.

See Terrier.

Surrounded by sky. [Poetic & R.] "The skyed mountain." Thomson.

Like the sky; ethereal; being in the sky. "Skyey regions." Thackeray. Sublime on the towers of my skyey bowers, Lightning, my pilot, sits. Shelley.

One who slays; a killer; a murderer; a destrroyer of life.

One who foretells events by the art of soothsaying; a prognosticator.

See Soothsayer. [Obs.]

One that sprays; any instrument for vaporizing and spraying liquids.

An eye that squints. Spenser.

Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.

occupation is to represent characters on the stage; as, Garrick was a celebrated stageplayer.

Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.

See Stannel.

Staid; fixed; settled; sober; -- now written staid. See Staid. Bacon. Pope.

Staidly. See Staidly. [R.]

Staidness. [Archaic] W. Whately.

One who upholds or supports that which props; one who, or that which, stays, stops, or restrains; also, colloquially, a horse, man, etc., that has endurance, an a race.

One who strays; a wanderer.