| 释义 |
blue eye
†a. = black eye 2 (cf. blue a. 3).
†b. A blueness or dark circle round the eye, from weeping or other cause.
c. An eye of which the iris is blue.
1552Huloet, When a wife hathe a blewe eye, she sayth she hath stombled on hir good man his fyste, suggillatio, liuor. 1600Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 393 A leane cheeke..a blew eie and sunken. a1639S. Ward Serm. 150 (D.) To whom are wounds, broken heads, blue eyes, maimed limbs? 1735Pope Mor. Ess. ii. 284 When those blue eyes first open'd on the sphere. 1820Scott Ivanhoe iii, His face was broad, with large blue eyes.
d. An Australian species of honey-eater (see quots.).
1848J. Gould Birds Australia IV. pl. 68 Entomyza cyanotis, Swains. Blue-faced Entomyza. Blue-eye of the Colonists. 1861Chambers's Encycl. II. 171/1 Blue-eye (Entomyza cyanotis), a beautiful little bird, abundant..in New South Wales. |