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rn hemisphere, near Taurus and Cassiopea. It contains a star cluster visible to the naked eye as a nebula.

The effect of distance upon the appearance of objects, by means of which the eye recognized them as being at a more or less measurable distance. Hence, aërial perspective, the assumed greater vagueness or uncertainty of outline in distant objects. Aërial perspective is the expression of space by any means whatsoever, s…

or seen through, by physical or mental vision. [R.] God, whose secrets are pervious to no eye. Jer. Taylor.

ds." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

That which is exhibited to the eye; the appearance which anything manifests, especially any one among different and varying appearances of the same object.

y some cause other than the impingement upon it of rays of light, as by pressure upon the eyeball when the lids are closed. Cf. After- image.

An affection of the eye, in which the patient perceives luminous rays, flashes, coruscations, etc. See phosphene.

The glasseye, or wall-eyed pike. See Wall-eye.

An image or resemblance; a representation, either to the eye or to the mind; that which, by its likeness, brings vividly to mind some other thing; as, a child is the picture of his father; the man is the picture of grief. My eyes make pictures when they are shut. Coleridge.

An instrument used in forming eyelets; a stiletto.

Having small, deep-set eyes.

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

The bull's eye, or center, of a target; hence, the center. [Obs.] "The very pin of his heart cleft." Shak.

Eyeglasses kept on the nose by a spring.

also pineal body, epiphysis, conarium. In some animals it is connected with a rudimentary eye, the so-called pineal eye, and in other animals it is supposed to be the remnant of a dorsal median eye.

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

aryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived. -- Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye. -- Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin. -- Maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides. -- Moss pink. See under Moss. -- Pink needle, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of t…

Pierced with small holes; worked in eyelets; scalloped on the edge. Shak.

Having small eyes. Holland.

contagious 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.