eyed
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /aɪd/
eyed (not comparable)
- Having eyes.
- Having eye-like spots.
- The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
- (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 2,
- What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.
- 1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6,
- Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.
- 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592 ↗:
- Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.
- 1960, Elie Wiesel, Night, translated by Stella Rodway, New York: Bantam, 1986, p. 61,
- Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.
- 1606, William Shakespeare, Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV, Scene 2,
- Simple past tense and past participle of eye
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