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Hooks and eyes for armor, etc. Fairholt.

One of a peculiar race inhabiting Yesso, the Kooril Islands etc., in the northern part of the empire of Japan, by some supposed to have been the progenitors of the Japanese. The Ainos are stout and short, with hairy bodies.

om by some defect of organization the substance which gives color to the skin, hair, and eyes is deficient or in a morbid state. An albino has a skin of a milky hue, with hair of the same color, and eyes with deep red pupil and pink or blue iris. The term is also used of the lower animals, as white mice, elephants, etc…

Astray; faultily; improperly; wrongly; ill. What error drives our eyes and ears amiss Shak. Ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss. James iv. 3. To take (an act, thing) amiss, to impute a wrong motive to (an act or thing); to take offense at' to take unkindly; as, you must not take these questions amiss.…

, to anchor the cables of a suspension bridge. Till that my nails were anchored in thine eyes. Shak.

w largely manufactured from coal tar or nitrobenzene as a base from which many brilliant dyes are made.

Of a different tincture from the animal itself; -- said of the eyes of a rapacious animal. Brande & C.

Unequal refractive power in the two eyes.

read over, as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

Pertaining to aphakia; as, aphakial eyes.

heavenly bands . . . a glorious apparition." Milton. I think it is the weakness of mine eyes That shapes this monstrous apparition. Shak.

ch vegetation begins to put forth, the variableness of its weather, etc. The April's her eyes; it is love's spring. Shak. April fool, one who is sportively imposed upon by others on the first day of April.

Having the appearance or quality of fire; fierce; glowing; shining; as, ardent eyes. Dryden.

A fabulous being of antiquity, said to have had a hundred eyes, who has placed by Juno to guard Io. His eyes were transplanted to the peacock's tail.

s, arrears of rent, wages, or taxes. Locke. For much I dread due payment by the Greeks Of yesterday's arrear. Cowper. I have a large arrear of letters to write. J. D. Forbes. In arrear or In arrears, behind; backward; behindhand; in debt.

To seize on and fix; to hold; to catch; as, to arrest the eyes or attention. Buckminster.

water (as in its original sense) or by land. Our watchmen from the towers, with longing eyes, Expect his swift arrival. Dryden.

et.] O, how are they wrapped in with infamies That from their own misdeeds askance their eyes! Shak.

Affected with, or pertaining to, astigmatism; as, astigmatic eyes; also, remedying astigmatism; as, astigmatic lenses.

Witness; testimony; attestation. [R.] The attest of eyes and ears. Shak.