| 释义 |
† well-eyed, a. Obs.
[well adv. 32.]
Having good eyes; keen-sighted.
c1400Master of Game (MS. Digby 182) xviii, And also þat he be both in felde and at wode delyuere and wele yȝed and wele auysed of speche. 1483Caxton Golden Leg. 339/2 This ymage..was well eyed, well browed [etc.]. 1561J. Daus tr. Bullinger on Apoc. (1573) 59 Let the gallauntes of this worlde,..so well eyed, and gorgeously apparelled, marke these thynges well. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiii. 17 They doo nought else but dote, that wilbe wel eyed and quiksyghted of themselues. 1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 154 Shepheard mought be..well eyed, as Argus was. 1596― State Irel. Wks. (Globe) 626/1 Yet there appeareth amongest them some reliques of the true antiquitye, though disguised, which a well-eyed man may happely discover and find out. |