To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thineeyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.
1605,The Trial of Chivalry:
Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunnyeyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime:[…]
Now with a bitter smile, whose light did shine / Like a fiend’s hope upon his lips andeyne, / He said, and the persuasion of that sneer / Rallied his trembling comrades—[…]
She was like a BeardsleySalome, he had said. And indeed she had the narroweyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
In theeyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.
Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervisingeye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.
Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes” to search for their missing daughters.
A loop formingpart of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook,pin,rope,shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in abridgetruss, through acrank, at the end of a rope, or through amillstone.
1664,Robert Boyle, “Experiment XII”, inExperiments and Considerations Touching Colours.[…], London:[…]Henry Herringman[…],→OCLC, part III (Containing Promiscuous Experiments about Colours),page220:
Red vvith anEye of Blevv, makes a Purple; and by theſe ſimple Compoſitions again Compounded among themſelves, the Skilful Painter can produce vvhat kind of Colour he pleaſes, and a great many more than vve have yet Names for.
Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.
2012, Bob Vargovcik,Bayonne Boy, page19:
My first assignment waseyeing old potatoes. The Siegler brothers would buy potatoes so old they looked like an octopus. My job was to make them look presentable and, of course, sellable.
(transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
1927,Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Forty-Seventh Session of the Legislature of the State of California:
Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to beeyed[…]
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
It said, in a whispering, buzzing voice, "Gee-you-ess-ess-ay-dash-em-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-em-eye-en-gee-oh-dash-pee-eye-pee-dash-pee-ee-ar-ar-wye-dash-pee-eye-en-gee-oh."
^Jordan, Richard (1974), Eugene Crook, transl.,Handbook of the Middle English Grammar: Phonology (Janua Linguarum. Series Practica;218)[1],The Hague:Mouton & Co. N.V.,→DOI,§ 51,page83.
Brewer, Forrest; Brewer, Jean G. (1962),Vocabulario mexicano de Tetelcingo, Morelos: Castellano-mexicano, mexicano-castellano (Serie de vocabularios indígenas Mariano Silva y Aceves; 8)[5] (in Spanish), México, D.F.: ElInstituto Lingüístico de Verano en coordinación con laSecretaría de Educación Pública a través de la Dirección General de Internados de Enseñanza Primaria y Educación Indígena, published1971, page126
Ultimately fromProto-Indo-European*h₁éy-ós, nominalized form of*h₁ey-(“to go”), where the semantics developed along the lines of the animals being herded. For similar etymological and semantic developments, compareHittiteiyant(“sheep”) andOscaneítuvam(“wealth”) (originally meaning livestock, for which semantically compareLatinpecunia).
Adams, Douglas Q. (2013), “eye”, inA Dictionary of Tocharian B: Revised and Greatly Enlarged (Leiden Studies in Indo-European;10), Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi,→ISBN,page98
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