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glass eye
†1. An eye-glass; usually pl., spectacles, ‘glasses’. (Cf. Sw. glasögon.) Obs.
1605Shakes. Lear iv. vi. 174 Get thee glasse-eyes, and like a scuruy Politician, seeme to see the things thou dost not. 1639Davenport New Trick iv. i, Enter the Divell like a Gentleman, with glasse eyes. 1642Remonstr. Ch. Irel. 5 His Highness was..riding up and down disguised, and with glasse-eyes, desiring not to be discovered. 1719D'Urfey Pills III. 18 With a pair of Glass Eyes to clap on my Nose. 1721Lond. Gaz. No. 5925/3 He..wears a Glass Eye.
b. (See quot.)
1796Grose's Dict. Vulg. Tongue (ed. 3), Glass Eyes, a nick name for one wearing spectacles.
2. A false eye made of glass (see also eye n.1 26).
1687Settle Refl. Dryden 24, I have heard of glass Eyes being taken out of peoples heads, and put in agen, but never of natural Eyes before. 1895Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 When a glass eye fits the socket nicely, it moves with it.
3. Farriery. A species of blindness in horses.
1831Youatt Horse (1843) 167 Another species of blindness..is Gutta Serena, commonly called glass eye. The pupil is more than usually dilated: it is immovable, and bright, and glassy.
4. A name given to:
a. a Jamaican thrush (Turdus jamaicensis), so called from its bluish-white glass-like iris;
b. (See quot. 1884–5.)
1847Gosse Birds Jamaica 143 My lad shot a male Glass-eye by the roadside at Cave. 1884–5Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 228 Wall-eyed pike..glass-eye, and dory are names in which the largest of the American pike-perches (Stizostedion vitreum) rejoices.
Hence glass-eyed ppl. a.
1889Century Dict., Glass-eyed, having a white eye, or one which in some other respect, as texture or fixedness, is likened to glass or to a glass eye; wall-eyed; goggle-eyed. 1895Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 Are glass-eyed people fairly cheerful? |