<B>eyeball, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> the eye without the surrounding lids and bony socket. It is shaped like a ball. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (U.S. Slang.) to watch intently; eye sharply. <BR> <I>Ex. Poker is a game ... in which you either eyeball the other fellow or he eyeballs you (Springfield Leader and Press).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>eyeball to eyeball,</B> </I>(Informal.) face to face in a conflict; in direct opposition. <BR> <I>Ex. There the adversaries stood, eyeball to eyeball (Newsweek).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>to the eyeballs,</B> </I>(Informal.) to the hilt; completely. <BR> <I>Ex. Never mind that the [grape] grower was mortgaged to the eyeballs, strangling on 9 and 10 percent interest payments (John Gregory Dunne).</I> </DL>
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<B>eye bank,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a place for the storage of human eyes, to be used in transplanting the corneas to persons who are blind from diseases causing scarring of the cornea. </DL>
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<B>eyebeam, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a beam or glance of the eye. </DL>
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<B>eyebolt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bolt having an eye at one end to receive a hook, ring, or rope. </DL>
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<B>eyebright, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a European herb of the figwort family, formerly used as a remedy for weak eyes and diseases of the eye; euphrasy. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=scarlet pimpernel.</B> </DL>
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<B>eyebrow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the strip of hair above the eye. <DD><B> 2. </B>the bony ridge that the hair above the eye grows on. <BR><I>expr. <B>raise an eyebrow</B> (or <B>eyebrows</B>), </I>to elicit or express doubt, disapproval, or wonder. <BR> <I>Ex. An American caparisoned in woolly Western chaps might raise an eyebrow or two (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>eyebrow pencil,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a pencil used to accentuate the eyebrows in making up. </DL>
<A NAME="eyecandy">
<B>eye candy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> something or someone pleasing to look at. <BR> <I>Ex. But most actresses are accessories, used for supportive warmth or eye candy (Vanity Fair).</I> </DL>
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<B>eye-catching, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>attractive; appealing. <BR> <I>Ex. We found ourself surrounded by gay and eye-catching things, ranging from tapestries to eggs dressed up as dolls (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>clearly visible; noticeable; conspicuous. <BR> <I>Ex. an eye-catching career.</I> </DL>
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<B>eye chart,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a chart with printed letters, numbers, or pictures of decreasing sizes, used for testing sight. </DL>
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<B>eye contact,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a meeting of eyes; visual contact between two individuals. <BR> <I>Ex. Subordinates are constantly attentive to the leader, and as soon as eye contact is made, they [wolves] submissively avert their eyes (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>eyecup, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small cup with a rim shaped to fit over the eye, used in washing the eyes or putting medicine in them. </DL>
<A NAME="eyed">
<B>eyed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> marked or ornamented with eyelike spots; spotted. </DL>
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<B>-eyed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) having a ______ eye or eyes. <BR> <I>Ex. One-eyed = having one eye. Green-eyed = having green eyes.</I> </DL>
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<B>eye dialect,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Linguistics.) the phonetic respelling of words to represent pronunciations that suggest dialect or some form of nonstandard speech, as <I>sez</I> for <I>says</I> or <I>wuz</I> for <I>was</I> or <I>axed</I> for <I>asked.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eyedoctor">
<B>eye doctor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an optometrist or ophthalmologist; doctor specializing in the care and treatment of the eyes. </DL>
<B>eye drops,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> liquid medicine administered to the eyes in drops to ease eyestrain. </DL>
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<B>eye-filling, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) very pleasant to look upon; highly attractive. </DL>
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<B>eye fly,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> eye gnat. </DL>
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<B>eyefold, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an epicanthic fold. <BR> <I>Ex. Bushmen are like the Asian peoples, often having Mongolian eyefolds and rather broad, flat faces (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>eyeful, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>as much as the eye can see at one time. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Informal.) a good look. <BR> <I>Ex. The tourists will get an eyeful of the city from the top of that tall building.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang, Figurative.) a good-looking person. <BR> <I>Ex. If you could take your eye off Mrs. Bliss, who is quite an eyeful, you could see a table in the background (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>eyeglass, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a lens to aid poor vision; monocle. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=eyepiece.</B> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=eyecup.</B> <BR><I>expr. <B>eyeglasses,</B> </I>a pair of lenses, mounted in a frame, to help vision; glasses; spectacles. <BR> <I>Ex. The lenses of her shell-rimmed eyeglasses were fogged with thumbprints (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>eye gnat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a small, disease-carrying fly which hovers around the face and eyes of human beings and domestic animals; eye fly. </DL>
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<B>eyeground, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the fundus of the eye, as viewed through an ophthalmoscope; the back part of the interior of the eyeball. <BR> <I>Ex. More emphasis is being placed upon the examination of the eyegrounds ... as an index of the general arteriolar pattern (Morris Fishbein).</I> </DL>
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<B>eyehole, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=eye socket.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a hole in a mask or fence to look through; peephole. <DD><B> 3. </B>a round opening for a pin, hook, rope, or the like, to go through. </DL>
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<B>eyelash, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>one of the hairs on the edge of the eyelid. <DD><B> 2. </B>the fringe of such hairs. <BR><I>expr. <B>by an eyelash,</B> </I>by a narrow margin; by very little. <BR> <I>Ex. The General lost the state, but only by an eyelash (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eyelens">
<B>eye lens,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the lens nearest the eye in an optical instrument. </DL>
<A NAME="eyeless">
<B>eyeless, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>without eyes. <DD><B> 2. </B>blind; sightless. <BR> <I>Ex. Eyeless in Gaza, at the mill with slaves (Milton).</I> adv. <B>eyelessly.</B> </DL>
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<B>eyelet, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a small, round hole for a lace or cord to go through, as in most shoes. <DD><B> 2. </B>a metal ring around such a hole to strengthen it. <DD><B> 3. </B>a hole to look through; peephole. <DD><B> 4. </B>a small, round hole with stitches around it, used to make a pattern in embroidery. <DD><B> 5. </B>a small eye. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make eyelets in. </DL>
<A NAME="eyeleteer">
<B>eyeleteer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a small, pointed instrument for making eyelets. </DL>
<A NAME="eyelethole">
<B>eyelet hole,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an eyelet, or small hole; loophole. </DL>
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<B>eyelid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the movable fold of skin, upper or lower, containing muscles by means of which we can shut and open our eyes. <BR> <I>Ex. [Her] eyelids are bluer with intellectual fatigue than with eye shadow (Punch).</I> </DL>
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<B>eyeliner, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a cosmetic preparation for drawing a line over the eyelashes to accentuate the eyes. <BR> <I>Ex. Eyeliner is applied sparingly, close to the lashes and not extended beyond the corner of the eye (Which).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a pencil or crayon for drawing such a line. </DL>
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<B>eye-minded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a mental constitution chiefly or exclusively visual, so that thoughts and memories take the form of visual images. <BR> <I>Ex. Most consumers are "eye-minded": they must see an article to appreciate its merit (Bernice Chambers).</I> noun <B>eye-mindedness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="eyen">
<B>eyen, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> obsolete or dialectal plural of <B>eye.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="eyeopener">
<B>eye opener,</B> or <B>eye-opener, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a surprising happening or discovery; startling piece of information. <BR> <I>Ex. This is often an eye opener to parents who insist that little Susie may be thirty pounds overweight but she hardly eats a thing (Maclean's).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(U.S.) a drink of alcoholic liquor taken early in the day. </DL>
<B>eyepatch, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a pad, usually of black cloth or leather, worn over a blind or injured eye. </DL>
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<B>eyepiece, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the lens, or set of lenses in a telescope or microscope that is nearest the eye of the user. </DL>
<A NAME="eyepoint">
<B>eyepoint, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the point at which the rays from the eyepiece of a telescope, microscope, or other instrument with lenses, converge, and to which the eye is applied to view an object. </DL>
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<B>eye-popper, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) something eye-popping; an astonishing thing or event; a marvel. <BR> <I>Ex. The service structure for the newest Saturn launch facility at Canaveral is an eye-popper (Wall Street Journal).</I> </DL>
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<B>eye-popping, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) causing great surprise or wonder; amazing; astonishing. <BR> <I>Ex. Santana polished off ... the Australian veteran who has dominated amateur tennis for the last three years by the eye-popping score of 6-1, 6-1, 6-4 (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="eyepurple">
<B>eye purple,</B> <B>=visual purple.</B></DL>
<A NAME="eyer">
<B>eyer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who eyes, or watches closely. </DL>
<A NAME="eyerhyme">
<B>eye rhyme,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the rhyme of words of similar spelling but different pronunciation, such as <I>near</I> and <I>bear;</I> sight rhyme. </DL>
<A NAME="eyeservant">
<B>eyeservant, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who works only when watched. </DL>
