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Having small, deep-set eyes.

small acuminated elevation of the cuticle, whether going on to suppuration or not. "All eyes can see a pimple on her nose." Pope.

Having small eyes. Holland.

ontagious disease of fowls, characterized by hoarseness, discharge from the nostrils and eyes, and an accumulation of mucus in the mouth, forming a "scale" on the tongue. By some the term pip is restricted to this last symptom, the disease being called roup by them.

n. (a) To make sport of; to deceive. Art thou alive Or is it fantasy that plays upon our eyesight. Shak.

; the use of more words than are necessary to express the idea; as, I saw it with my own eyes.

The stalk-eyed Crustacea, -- an order of Crustacea having the eyes supported on movable stalks. It includes the crabs, lobsters, and prawns. Called also Podophthalmata, and Decapoda.

Having the eyes on movable footstalks, or pedicels.

The eyestalk of a crustacean.

Having numerous facets; -- said of the compound eyes of insects and crustaceans.

Having many eyes.

w, with a group of reddish spots in the middle; the under parts and the parts around the eyes are bright yellow; the sides of the throat and spots along the sides, black; three outer tail feathers partly white. -- Prairie wolf. (Zoöl.) See Coyote.

plication, and thanksgiving. And to his goddess pitously he preyde. Chaucer. When thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray to thy Father which is in secret; and thy Father which seeth in secret shall reward thee openly. Matt. vi. 6. I pray, or (by ellipsis) Pray, I beg; I request; I e…

Placed just in front of the eyes, as the antennæ of certain insects. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the day before, or yesterday. [R.] Thackeray.

ians found in caves in Austria. They have permanent external gills as well as lungs. The eyes are small and the legs are weak.

One of the soft gelatinous cones found in the compound eyes of certain insects, taking the place of the crystalline cones of others.

Characteristic of the ancient Carthaginians; faithless; treacherous; as, Punic faith. Yes, yes, his faith attesting nations own; 'T is Punic all, and to a proverb known. H. Brooke.

Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight." Shak.

A dyestuff resembling alizarin, found in madder root, and extracted as an orange or red crystalline substance.