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IMG:content-1316.png:[blocks in formation] (2) To black one's eye: To defeat in some project or intention, to outdo, or circumvent. *(3) To blear one's eye: To cheat or deceive one. "To blere the wives eighe ." -Political Songs , p. 333. *(4) To change eyes: To fall in love with each other. IMG:content-1317.jpg:[blocks in formation] "At the first sight they have changed eyes." Shakesp.: Tempest , i. 2. (5) To set the eyes on: To have sight of. (6) To find favor in the eyes of : To be graciously Naut .: An eye spliced on the end or ends of a rope for a lashing, being rove through to set it tight. (11) Indian eye: The genus Dianthus. (12) The eye of Greece: An epithet of Athens, attributed by Newton, in his note in loc . to Demos- thenes, but the pa age has never been identified. B. As adj .: Pertaining to, used for, or intended for the eyes. *eye-biting, a. Fascinating, enchanting. *eye-bree, s . An eyebrow. eye-brightening, a. Clearing or brightening the sight. which the sclerotic a does outside; it forms four- fifths of the whole globe, and its perfect fluidity allows for the expansion and contraction of the pupil and of the lens itself to or from the cornea. Government , bl. ii. eye-doctor, s. An oculist. eye-drop, s . Atear. eye-extirpator, s . *2. Fig .: The retina of the eye; the sight. "Ha' not you seen Camillo? But that's past doubt you have; or your eye-gla Is thicker than a cuckold's horn." Shakesp.: Winter's Tale , i. 2. IMG:content-1318.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1319.jpg:[graphic] IMG:content-1320.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1321.png:[blocks in formation] eye (2) (pron. 1), s. [Ex (1).] A brood, especially of pheasants. "If you chance where an eye of tame pheasants Or partridges are, see they be mine. Beaum. and Flet.: Beggar's Bush , ii. 1. eye (pron. 1), v. t. & i. [EYE, 8.] A. Transitive : eyed s. IMG:content-1322.png:[blocks in formation] bringing with it any foreign body lying in its path. IMG:content-1323.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-1324.png:[blocks in formation] "Saul eyed David."-1 Samuel xviii. 9. *B. In trans.: To a ume an appearance; to appear. "Since my becomings kill me when they do not Eye well to you." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra , i. 3. eye-ball (eye as 1), s. [Eng. eye , and ball .] The ball, apple, or globe of the eye. *eye-beam (eye as 1), s . [Eng. eye , and beam .] A beam or glance of the eye. eye-bite (eye as 1), v . t . [Eng. eye , and bite .] To fascinate. ( P. Holland , in Trench's English Past and Present , lect. ii.)