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1,408 words match “EYE”

OXEYED a.
Having large, full eyes, like those of an ox. Burton.
PALFREYED a.
Mounted on a palfrey. Tickell.
PEARL-EYED a.
Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with the cataract.
PEYER'S GLANDS n.
ymphoid nodules, in the walls of the small intestiness; agminated glands; -- called also Peyer's patches. In typhoid fever they become the seat of ulcers which are regarded as the characteristic organic lesion of that disease.
PIG-EYED a.
Having small, deep-set eyes.
PIN-EYED a.
mens are concealed in the tube; -- said of dimorphous flowers. The opposite of Ant: thrum-eyed.
PINK-EYED a.
Having small eyes. Holland.
PREYER n.
One who, or that which, preys; a plunderer; a waster; a devourer. Hooker.
REDEYE n. 3 definitions
The goggle-eye, or fresh-water rock bass. [Local, U.S.]
RENEYE v.
To deney; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.] For he made every man reneye his law. Chaucer.
SESSILE-EYED a.
Having eyes which are not elevated on a stalk; -- opposed to stalk-eyed. Sessile-eyed Crustacea, the Arthrostraca.
SEYE; SEYEN p.
of See.
SHEEP'S-EYE n.
; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. Wycherley.
SQUINT-EYE n.
An eye that squints. Spenser.
SQUINT-EYED a. 2 definitions
Having eyes that quint; having eyes with axes not coincident; cross-eyed.
STALK-EYED a.
Having the eyes raised on a stalk, or peduncle; -- opposed to sessile-eyed. Said especially of podophthalmous crustaceans. Stalked- eyed crustaceans. (Zoöl.) See Podophthalmia.
STROMEYERITE n.
A steel-gray mineral of metallic luster. It is a sulphide of silver and copper.
SWIVEL-EYED a.
Squint-eyed. [Prov. Eng.]
THIMBLEEYE n.
The chub mackerel. See under Chub.
THRUM-EYED a.
isible at the throat of the corolla, as in long-stamened primroses; -- the reverse of pin-eyed.
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