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An eye on the under side of a carronade for securing it to a carriage. Navel gall, a bruise on the top of the chine of the back of a horse, behind the saddle. Johnson. -- Navel point. (Her.) Same as Nombril.

nce; destitution. Chaucer. Famine is in thy cheeks; Need and oppression starveth in thine eyes. Shak.

A small instrument of steel, sharply pointed at one end, with an eye to receive a thread, -- used in sewing. Chaucer.

merous species, of marine chætopod annelids, having a well-formed head, with two pairs of eyes, antennæ, four pairs of tentacles, and a protrusile pharynx, armed with a pair of hooked jaws.

unced. Some things good, and some things ill, do seem, And neutral some, in her fantastic eye. Sir J. Davies.

In no degree; not in the least; not. Whosoever has a friend to guide him, may carry his eyes in another man's head, and yet see never the worse. South. And he answered him to never a word. Matt. xxvii. 14.

ight angles toward one side of the tube, where the image is formed and viewed through the eyeplace. -- Newtonian theory of light. See Note under Light.

A young hawk; an eyas; hence, an unsophisticated person. [Obs.]

hin membrance, found in many animals at the inner angle, or beneath the lower lid, of the eye, and capable of being drawn across the eyeball; the third eyelid; the haw.

The period after the close of life; death. She closed her eyes in everlasting night. Dryden.

Capable of seeing at night; sharp-eyed. "Your night-eyed Tiberius." B. Jonson.

The lamprey.

s of the nose, which give passage to the air breathed and to secretions from the nose and eyes; one of the anterior nares.

ot one word spake he more than was need. Chaucer. Thou shalt not steal. Ex. xx. 15. Thine eyes are upon me, and I am not. Job vii. 8. The question is, may I do it, or may I not do it Bp. Sanderson. Not . . . but, or Not but, only. [Obs. or Colloq.] Chaucer.

y of notice; likely to attract observation; conspicous. A noticeable man, with large gray eyes. Wordsworth.

Guilty; criminal. [R.] Those who are noxious in the eye of the law. Abp. Bramhall.

A disease of the eye, in consequence of which the patient can see well in a faint light or at twilight, but is unable to see during the day or in a strong light; day blindness.

A rapid involuntary oscillation of the eyeballs.

prove. Fairfax. Some strong impediment or other objecting itself. Hooker. Pallas to their eyes The mist objected, and condensed the skies. Pope.

The act of becoming oblique; a turning to one side; obliquity; as, the obliquation of the eyes. [R.] Sir T. Browne.