| 单词 | eye-string | 
| 释义 | eye-stringn. Now rare.   A nerve, blood vessel, tendon, or muscle in the eye (see string n. 2a). Usually in plural.The eye-strings were formerly supposed to break or crack at death or the onset of blindness. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > muscle > muscles of specific parts > 			[noun]		 > muscles of eye, lid, or brow eye-string1532 abducens1615 eye-opener1649 orbicularis1681 bibitory muscle1696 corrugator1836 Müller1875 the world > life > the body > structural parts > sinew, tendon, or ligament > types of sinew, tendon, or ligament > 			[noun]		 > of eyes eye-string1532 1532    W. Walter tr.  G. Boccaccio Guystarde & Sygysmonde sig. D.ij  				Sygysmonde felynge deth to approche fast And that her eye strynges began to breke She badde them all farewell. 1602    B. Jonson Poetaster Induct. sig. A2  				Cracke eystrings, and your balls Drop into earth; let me be euer  blind.       View more context for this quotation 1607    F. Beaumont Woman Hater  ii. i. sig. D2v  				The last words that my dying father spake, Before his eye-strings brake. a1616    W. Shakespeare Cymbeline 		(1623)	  i. iii. 17  				I would haue broke mine eye-strings; Crack'd them, but to looke vpon  him.       View more context for this quotation 1650    N. Lockyer Olive-leafe 18  				Every haire of thy head stare, every eye-string stretch, and every heart-string twist together. 1682    T. Otway Venice Preserv'd  ii. 24  				Gaze on thee till my Eye-strings crackt with Love. 1707    J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 178  				See..that their [sheep's] Gums be red..the Eye-strings ruddy. 1776    A. M. Toplady Bk. Praise 159  				When my eyestrings break in death. 1778    Arminian Mag. 1 268  				His Eye-strings were broke, his Speech entirely gone. 1833    J. F. Cooper Headsman I. vi. 100  				Be not ashamed of thy star, but gaze at it till thy eye-strings crack. 1859    Friendly Visitor 9 202  				Now a heart-string,—now an eye-string snaps asunder,—at last out goes the weary, trembling soul. 1902    A. H. Leahy tr.  Courtship of Ferb 40  				Your eye-strings are shattered; Death's poison prevails. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < | 
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