| 释义 |
eyeless, a.|ˈaɪlɪs|
[f. eye n.1 + -less.]
1. Without eyes.
a. Of certain animals: Having no eyes.
b. Of a needle: Made without an eye.
c. Of a plant, etc.: Without buds.
1570in Levins Manip. 91. a 1822 Shelley Assassins ii. in Ess. & Lett. (Camelot) 171 The eyeless worms of earth. 1848Carpenter Anim. Phys. 12 In..the great cave of Kentucky are found numerous small eyeless fishes. 1871Athenæum 26 Aug. 275 Paris has sewers, and strange, eye⁓less..beings swarm through them.
2. Deprived of the eyes, having the eyes removed.
1592Shakes. Rom. & Jul. v. iii. 126 What Torch is yond that vainely lends his light To grubs, and eyelesse Sculles? 1605― Lear iii. vii. 96 Turne out that eyelesse Villaine. 1671Milton Samson 38 Ask for this great deliverer now, and find him Eyeless in Gaza. 1725Pope Odyss. xiii. 145 The vengeance vowed for eyeless Polypheme. 1812Byron Ch. Har. ii. vi, Through each lack-lustre, eyeless hole. 1857Whittier Poems, Wife of Manoah 15 An eyeless captive. 1866Kingsley Herew. xv. 194, I am haunted with spectres eyeless and handless.
3. Blind, sightless.
a. Without eyes or eyesight, lit. and fig.
b. Not using the eyes, undiscriminating; without aid from the eyes.
1627–47Feltham Resolves 164 The eye-lesse night. 1717Addison tr. Ovid's Met. iii. 625 Pentheus only durst deride The Cheated People, and their Eyeless Guide. 1766G. Canning Anti-Lucretius iii. 227 [He] for a pilot eyeless Chance employ'd. 1814Cary Dante, Purgatory xiii. 61 As never beam Of noonday visiteth the eyeless man, E'en so [etc.]. 1859Tennyson Idylls, Vivien 106, I saw the little elf-god eyeless once. 1867J. Martineau Chr. Life (ed. 4) 464 Sunshine is of no use in an eyeless world. 1871Morley Condorcet Crit. Misc. (1878) 73 The fortuitous vagaries of an eyeless destiny. 1877Morris Sigurd iii. 278 The hungry eyeless sword.
4. Not to be reached by the eye. rare.
1839Bailey Festus (1848) 17/2 Like stars..They shall ever pass at all but eyeless distance. |