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A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.

Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.

Shortsighted; purblind.

Shortsighted; mope-eyed.

umerous species of large, handsome, tropical American butterflies, of the genus Morpho. They are noted for the very brilliant metallic luster and bright colors (often blue) of the upper surface of the wings. The lower surface is usually brown or gray, with eyelike spots.

A word; hence, a motto; a device. [Obs.] Bp. Hall. Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar. Shak.

A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.

A series of pictures, usually photographs taken with a special machine, presented to the eye in very rapid succession, with some or all of the objects in the picture represented in slightly changed positions, producing, by persistence of vision, the optical effect of a continuous picture in which the objects move in so…

he face lies muffled up within the garment. Addison. He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. Dryden. Muffled up in darkness and superstition. Arbuthnot.

ad and neck in cold weather; a tippet. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. Shak.

Having many eyes, or more than two.

nding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system.

A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.

A long-continued or excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye.

Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave…

h, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted. Myopic astigmatism, a condition in which the eye is affected with myopia in one meridian only.

Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc. -- n.

destitute; unaided; bare. Patriots who had exposed themselves for the public, and whom they say now left naked. Milton.

of locomotive organs (corresponding to the antennules, antennæ, and mandibles), a median eye, and little or no segmentation of the body.