Eye
A brood; as, an eye of pheasants.
The organ of sight or vision. In man, and the vertebrates generally, it is properly the movable ball or globe in the orbit, but the term often includes the adjacent parts. In most invertebrates the years are immovable ocelli, or compound eyes made up of numerous ocelli. See Ocellus.
The faculty of seeing; power or range of vision; hence, judgment or taste in the use of the eye, and in judging of objects; as, to have the eye of sailor; an eye for the beautiful or picturesque.
The action of the organ of sight; sight, look; view; ocular knowledge; judgment; opinion.
The space commanded by the organ of sight; scope of vision; hence, face; front; the presence of an object which is directly opposed or confronted; immediate presence.
Observation; oversight; watch; inspection; notice; attention; regard.
That which resembles the organ of sight, in form, position, or appearance
The spots on a feather, as of peacock.
The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. when used as food, as in the scallop.
The bud or sprout of a plant or tuber; as the eye of a potato.
The center of a target; the bull's-eye.
A small loop to receive a hook; as hooks and eyes on a dress.
The hole through the head of a needle.
A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope.
The hole through the upper millstone.
That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.
Tinge; shade of color.
To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention; to hold in view.
To appear; to look.
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Eye Quotations
That old law about 'an eye for an eye' leaves everybody blind. The time is always right to do the right thing.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.
Winston Churchill
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
Mahatma Gandhi
The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.
Benjamin Franklin
The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.
Benjamin Franklin
It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin Franklin
Let every eye negotiate for itself and trust no agent.
William Shakespeare
Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.
Thomas Jefferson
It was like being in the eye of a hurricane. You'd wake up in a concert and think, Wow, how did I get here?
John Lennon
The health of the eye seems to demand a horizon. We are never tired, so long as we can see far enough.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Eye Translations
eye in Afrikaans is oog
eye in Dutch is kijker, oog
eye in French is maille, oeil
eye in German is Auge {n}
eye in Italian is occhio
eye in Latin is oculus
eye in Portuguese is olho
eye in Spanish is ojo
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