EY'AS, noun A young hawk just taken from the nest, not able to prey for itself.

EY'AS, adjective Unfledged. [Not used.]

EYE, noun pronounced as I. [Latin oculus, a diminutive. The old English plural was eyen, or eyne.]

1. The organ of sight or vision; properly, the globe or ball movable in the orbit. The eye is nearly of a spherical figure, and composed of coats or tunics. But in the term eye we often or usually include the ball and the parts adjacent.

2. Sight; view; ocular knowledge; as, I have a man now in my eye In this sense, the plural is more generally used.

Before whose eyes Jesus Christ hath been evidently set forth, crucified among you. Galatians 3:1.

3. Look; countenance.

I'll say yon gray is not the morning's eye

4. Front; face.

Her shall you hear disproved to your eyes.

5. Direct opposition; as, to sail in the wind's eye

6. Aspect; regard; respect; view.

Booksellers mention with respect the authors they have printed, and consequently have an eye to their own advantage.

7. Notice; observation; vigilance; watch.

After this jealousy, he kept a strict eye upon him.

8. View of the mind; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.

It hath, in their eye no great affinity with the form of the church of Rome.

9. Sight; view, either in a literal or figurative sense.

10. Something resembling the eye in form; as the eye of a peacock's feather.

11. A small hole or aperture; a perforation; as the eye of a needle.

12. A small catch for a hook; as we say, hooks and eyes. in nearly the same sense, the word is applied to certain fastenings in the cordage of ships.

13. The bud of a plant; a shoot.

14. A small shade of color. [Little used.]

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

15. The power of perception.

The eyes of your understanding being enlightened. Ephesians 1:18.

16. Oversight; inspection.

The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands.

The eyes of a ship, are the parts which lie near the hawse-holes, particularly in the lower apartments.

To set the eyes on, is to see; to have a sight of.

To find favor in the eyes, is to be graciously received and treated.

EYE, noun A brood; as an eye of pheasants.

EYE, verb transitive To fix the eye on; to look on; to view; to observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly, or with fixed attention.

EYE nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies.

EYE, verb intransitive To appear; to have an appearance.

EY'EBALL, noun The ball, globe or apple of the eye.

EY'EBEAM, noun A glance of the eye.

EY'EBOLT, noun In ships, a bar or iron or bolt, with an eye, formed to be driven into the deck or sides, for the purpose of hooking tackles to.

EY'EBRIGHT, noun A genus of plants, the Euphrasia, of several species.

EY'EBROW, noun The brow or hairy arch above the eye.

EY'ED, participle passive Viewed; observed; watched.

1. Having eyes; used in composition, as a dull-eyed man, ox-eyed Juno.

EY'EDROP, noun A tear.

EY'EGLANCE, noun A glance of the eye; a rapid look.

EY'EGLASS, noun A glass to assist the sight; spectacles.

In telescopes, the glass next the eye; and where there are several, all except the object glass are called eye-glasses.

EY'ELASH, noun The line of hair that edges the eyelid.

EY'ELESS, adjective Wanting eyes; destitute of sight.

EY'ELET, noun A small hole or perforation, to receive a lace or small rope or cord. We usually say, eyelet-hole.

EY'ELIAD, noun A glance of the eye.

EY'ELID, noun The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers the eyeball, or uncovers it, at pleasure.

EY'ER, noun One who eyes another.

EY'ESHOT, noun Sight; view; glance of the eye.

EY'ESIGHT, noun The sight of the eye; view; observation. Psalms 18:24.

Josephus sets this down from his own eyesight

1. The sense of seeing. His eyesight fails.

EY'ESORE, noun Something offensive to the eye or sight.

Mordecai was an eyesore to Haman.

EY'ESPLICE, noun In seaman's language, a sort of eye or circle at the end of a rope.

EY'ESPOTTED, adjective Marked with spots like eyes.

EYESTONE, noun A small calcarious stone used for taking substance from between the lid and ball of the eye.

EY'ESTRING, noun The tendon by which the eye is moved.

EY'ETOOTH, noun A tooth under the eye; a pointed tooth in the upper jaw next to the grinders, called also a canine tooth; a fang.

EY'EWINK, noun A wink, or motion of the eyelid; a hint or token.

EY'OT, noun A little isle.

EYRE, noun ire. [Latin iter.] Literally, a journey or circuit. In England, the justices in eyre were itinerant judges, who rode the circuit to hold courts in the different counties.

1. A court of itinerant justices.

EY'RY, noun The place where birds of prey construct their nests and hatch. It is written also eyrie. [See Aerie.]

The eagle and the stork

On cliffs and cedar-tops their eyries build.