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The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.

To raise; to elevate. [Archaic] They . . . advanced their eyelids. Shak.

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.

Inflammation of the eyelids. -- Bleph`a*rit"ic (#), a.

The hair on the eyelids of a horse. Bailey.

The corner where the upper and under eyelids meet on each side of the eye.

A small circumscribed tumor of the eyelid caused by retention of secretion, and by inflammation of the Melbomian glands.

A native or natives of China, or one of that yellow race with oblique eyelids who live principally in China.

A spasmodic trembling of the upper eyelid.

The point of union between two parts, as the angles of the lips or eyelids, the mandibles of a bird, etc.

Downcast; submissive; humble. [R.] They pray with demissive eyelids. Lord (1630).

A disease of the eyelids, attended with loss of the eyelashes. Thomas.

Eyelids or eyelashes. And closing eaves of wearied eyes. Tennyson. Eaves board (Arch.), an arris fillet, or a thick board with a feather edge, nailed across the rafters at the eaves of a building, to raise the lower course of slates a little, or to receive the lowest course of tiles; -- called also eaves catch and eave…

An unnatural eversion of the eyelids.

The inversion or turning in of the border of the eyelids.

The state of being turned back or outward; as, eversion of eyelids; ectropium.

The protrusion of the eyeball so that the eyelids will not cover it, in consequence of disease.

The eversion or turning out of any organ, or of its inner surface; as, exstrophy of the eyelid or of the bladder.

The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.

A copious gummy secretion of the humor of the eyelids, in consequence of some disorder; blearedness; lippitude.