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small-eyed, a.
[small a. 23.]
Having small eyes. Also transf. of spectacles.
1630Drayton Noah's Flood 481 The small-ey'd slow⁓worm held of many blind. 1686Lond. Gaz. No. 2176/4 A black Negro Man,..small in the Waste, small Ey'd. 1801Shaw Gen. Zool. II. ii. 502 Small Eyed Cachalot, Physeter Microps. 1836Yarrell Brit. Fishes II. 433 The Small-eyed Ray, raia microcellata. 1840Dickens Barn. Rudge iv, Sim..was an old-fashioned,..sharp-nosed, small-eyed little fellow. 1898Westm. Gaz. 5 Oct. 9/3 Small-eyed spectacles made at the suggestion of Sir Isaac Newton. |