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throw. this mortal house I'll ruin. Shak. By thee raised, I ruin all my foes. Milton. The eyes of other people are the eyes that ruin us. Franklin. By the fireside there are old men seated, Seeling ruined cities in the ashes. Longfellow.

Obey them that have the rule over you. Heb. xiii. 17. His stern rule the groaning land obeyed. Pope.

a northern European popular historical or religious tale of olden time. And then the blue-eyed Norseman told A saga of the days of old. Longfellow.

nd Eastern Russia. The male has erect annulated horns, and tufts of long hair beneath the eyes and ears.

ith salt, as that of the ocean and of certain seas and lakes; sometimes, also tears. Mine eyes are full of tears, I can not see; And yet salt water blinds them not so much But they can see a sort of traitors here. Shak. -- Salt-water sailor, an ocean mariner. -- Salt-water tailor. (Zoöl.) See Bluefish.…

A mythical person who makes children sleepy, so that they rub their eyes as if there were sand in them.

d or destitute of. Rarely used as an English word. "Sans fail." Chaucer. Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. Shak.

bric, used for linings, etc. [Written also sarsenet.] Thou green sarcenet flap for a sore eye. Shak.

Expressive of, or characterized by, impudence; impertinent; as, a saucy eye; saucy looks. We then have done you bold and sausy wrongs. Shak.

An act of cruelty; barbarity. The wildest savagery, the vilest stroke, That ever wall-eyed wrath or staring rage Presented to the tears of soft remorse. Shak.

The goggler; -- called also big-eyed scad. See Goggler.

To remove the skin of. We must scalp the whole lid [of the eye]. J. S. Wells.

Scarcely; hardly; barely. Scantly they durst their feeble eyes dispread Upon that town. Fairfax. We hold a tourney here to-morrow morn, And there is scantly time for half the work. Tennyson.

A person clad in rags and tatters. No eye hath seen such scarecrows. I'll not march with them through Coventry, that's flat. Shak.

o, a representation or description of a body, in all its dimensions, as it appears to the eye. Greenhill.

hing in this age. There is another personage abroad, -- a person less imposing, -- in the eyes of some, perhaps, insignificant. The schoolmaster is abroad; and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array. Brougham.

wooden ball which fits a socket in a window shutter so as to be readily turned, like the eye, to different parts of the landscape.

A morbid induration of the edge of the eyelid.

The optic capsule; the sclerotic coat of the eye. Owen.

Hard; firm; indurated; -- applied especially in anatomy to the firm outer coat of the eyeball, which is often cartilaginous and sometimes bony.