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Variant of eye

noun

  1. the organ of sight in humans and animals
    1. the eyeball
    2. the iris: brown eyes
  2. the area around the eye, including the eyelids: to get a black eye
  3. the power of seeing; sight; vision: weak eyes
  4. a look; glance; gaze: to cast an eye on something
  5. attention; regard; observation
  6. the power of judging, estimating, discriminating, etc. by eyesight: a good eye for distances
  7. judgment; opinion; estimation: in the eyes of the law
  8. a thing like an eye in appearance or function; specif.,
    1. a bud of a tuber, as a potato
    2. the spot on a peacock's tail feather
    3. the center of a flower; disk
    4. a hole in a tool, as for a handle
    5. the threading hole in a needle
    6. a loop of metal, rope, or thread: hook and eye
    7. an organ sensitive to light, as in certain lower forms of life
    8. photoelectric cell
    9. a section of any of certain cuts of meat: eye of round
    10. a hole, as in certain cheeses
  9. Slang a private detective; private eye
  10. Meteorol. the calm, low-pressure area at the center of a hurricane, around which winds of high velocity move
  11. Naut. the part of the main deck of a vessel that is farthest forward

transitive verb eyed, eyeing or eying

  1. to look at; watch carefully; observe
  2. to provide with eyes, or holes

intransitive verb

Obsolete to appear (to the eyes)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2010 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio. Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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