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Having small, deep-set eyes.

mens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of Ant: thrum-eyed.

Having small eyes. Holland.

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

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

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

Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]

isible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.

Bribed. [R.] Fuller.

Destitute of money; not rich. [Written also unmonied.] Shenstone.

Discharged with a sudden burst, or as if in a volley; as, volleyed thunder.

Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth.

Having yellow eyes. Yellow-eyed grass (Bot.), any plant of the genus Xyris.

rganisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs.

A small, portable, keyed wind instrument, whose tones are generated by play of the wind upon free metallic reeds.

Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry. [Obs.] The squint-eyed Pharisees look across at all the actions of Christ. Bp. Hall.

mire a person of high moral worth, to admire a landscape. Admired as heroes and as gods obeyed. Pope.

Action; endeavor. [Obs.] And with his best affair Obeyed the pleasure of the Sun. Chapman.

anal, the entire channel, extending from the mouth to the anus, by which aliments are conveyed through the body, and the useless parts ejected.

A figure representation which has a meaning beyond notion directly conveyed by the object painted or sculptured.