单词 | eyed |
释义 | eyedadj. 1. a. (a) As the second element in parasynthetic compounds: having eyes of the specified kind or quantity, resembling the specified object, or like those of the animal specified.Argus-eyed, beady-eyed, blue-eyed, eagle-eyed, fierce-eyed, hollow-eyed, one-eyed, red-eyed, saucer-eyed, two-eyed, etc.: see the first element.With schule-eyed, i.e. ‘squint-eyed’, in quot. OE2 cf. schule v. ΚΠ OE St. Euphrosyne (Julius) in W. W. Skeat Ælfric's Lives of Saints (1900) II. 354 Þa com þider sum broþor se wæs anegede. OE Ælfric Gloss. (St. John's Oxf.) 304 Strabo, scylegede [c1225 Worcester sculeiȝede]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1961) Lev. xxi. 20 Ȝif [he were] croked rugge or blereyȝede [L. albuginem habens in oculo]. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. l. 4562 Tantalus, Of sangwyn hewe, havyng moche of red, Diuers eyed, ay mevyng in his hed. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Pitañoso Bleare eied, tender eied. 1671 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 6 3002 Whether the Tarantula be not a Phalangium (that is, a six-eyed skipping Spider)? 1751 S. Richardson Clarissa (ed. 3) I. xliii. 304 Pretty Mopsa-eyed soul! was her expression! 1861 Ladies Repository Dec. 725/1 A red-bearded, red-headed, red-faced, red-tempered, hateful-eyed officer. 1912 E. Ferber Buttered Side Down v. 79 Miss Gussie Fink sat at her desk, calm, watchful, insolent-eyed. 1944 E. Blunden Shells by Stream 9 Squadrons of gem-eyed hobby-horses Whirr round his iron-minded forces. 2013 Psychologies (U.K. ed.) May 115/1 Who imagined..that a slim gold pen of illuminating concealer could transform beauty regimes,..becoming a solution for panda-eyed millions. (b) In predicative use, with qualifying prepositional phrase (chiefly with as or like): having eyes like those of the person or animal specified. Now rare. ΚΠ a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 1459 Youre fader is in sleyghte as Argus eyed. a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) i. l. 383 A prynce..Eied as Argus with resoun and forsiht. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Cj An Elephant..is..eyed lyke a swine. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Sept. 203 For Roffy is wise, and as Argus eyed. 1640 T. Hooker Paterne of Perfection ii. 31 If the child bee but eyed like his father, wee say, He hath a brow like his father. 1703 W. Freke Lingua Tersancta xxvii. 166 Beasts eyed like men, Passions or Appetites colour'd with Reason or acting with Reason. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Œnone in Poems (new ed.) 61 A wild and wanton pard, Eyed like the eveningstar. 1900 S. R. Crockett Little Anna Mark xx. 161 The mirkest moorland night was to her as the day, being, as I often cast up to her, eyed like a cat. (c) Simply: having eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > having eyed1613 maiden-eyed1857 1613 P. Forbes Exquisite Comm. Reuelation St. Iohn iv. 18 How conueniently these eyed and winged wights are ioyned to the glassie Sea. 1864 Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia 223 The scales of the eyed side [of the flatfish Citharichthys microstomus] are mostly minutely ciliated behind. 1964 H. H. Haskin in N. Marshall et al. Exper. Marine Ecol. 79/1 Under these light conditions mature and eyed larvae are responsive to changing salinities. 2007 S. Ings Eye (2008) iv. 119 The arrival of eyed vertebrates, some eighty-five million years after the Cambrian explosion. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > clear- or sharp-sighted bright-eyeda1393 sightya1400 well-eyeda1425 well-seeing?a1425 eagle-eyeda1475 well-sighteda1529 clear-eyed1530 quick-sighted1542 oculate1549 quick-eyed1561 eyed1563 sharpsighted1571 clear-sighted1586 eagle-sighted1589 lynx-eyed1597 mouse-eyed1599 lycophosed1600 lycophosy1600 right-eyed1600 nimble-eyed1605 perspicacious1616 lyncean1622 piercing-sighted1630 perspicuous1657 sharp-eyed1672 gimlet-eyed1752 keen-eyed1781 keen-sighted1813 hawk-eyed1818 accipitrine1872 accipitral1881 1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye iii. sig. r.iiv Who inquireth of others life & maners ignorant of his owne, & is outwardes eyed, but homewards blind. 1581 T. Newton tr. Seneca Thebais i, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 44v I Umpyre doe the make, And eyed Iudge of all my plagues that iustly heere I take. 1598 T. Bastard Chrestoleros vi. xxxviii. 155 So men..Eyde to their profit, but blinde to their paine. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 87 A god, though blinde, yet eyed sufficiently to spie out two spirits. 1643 W. Prynne Soveraigne Power Parl. App. 154 He who even now seemed eyed, eared, strong and flourishing; will suddenly wax blind, deafe, and fall to nothing. 1660 G. Mackenzie Aretina Ded. 3 The best eyed fancy, cannot observe any traite in your peerless faces, wherein nature hath not prodigalled her charmes. 1888 R. Kipling Soldiers Three (1890) 294 He had regularly..drawn from the overseer his allowance of lamp-oil—just as if he had been an eyed miner. ΚΠ 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 227 The eyed air Sees not. 1897 Cent. Mag. Dec. 268/1 Not in the eyed, expectant gloom, Where soaring peaks repose. 2. Having markings resembling eyes; ornamented as with eyes; spotted.Now frequently in the names of animals or insects; see also eyed hawkmoth n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > spot of colour > [adjective] > having eye-shaped spots eyespotted1590 eyed1591 starry-eyed?1594 ocellated1713 bird's-eyed1737 ocellate1825 1591 P. S. tr. C. Paradin Heroicall Deuises 288 We are wont to vse a flap made of the eied or starred feathers of a pecocke. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xiv. 328/1 An Eyed Sole Fish, is in all respects agreeable to the Sole Fish; but it hath divers spots upon its back part. 1795 J. Hutton Theory Earth (new ed.) I. 535 Our agates or eyed stones. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 31 Soft mossy lawns..eyed with blooms. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 6 Eyed like a peacock. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz in La Saisiaz: Two Poets of Croisic 53 That which perks and preens The eyed wing. 1913 A. Teixeira de Mattos tr. J. H. Fabre Life of Fly i. 12 The Eyed Lizard I do not regret at all. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 341 The eyed elator, Alaus oculatus , is one of our largest click beetles. 1991 Country-Side Spring 4/2 Some such as the eyed ladybird (Anatis ocellata) have three colours, with the black spots on a burgundy red background being ringed with cream. 2004 B. Veverka Spey Flies & how to Tie Them ii. 83/1 A few salmon flies have wings made completely or partly with peacock herl..from the eyed feathers of a peacock's tail. 3. Having one or more holes or loops through which something may be threaded or passed. Cf. eye n.1 9, 13. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > an opening or aperture > [adjective] > having (a) hole(s) > having (a) small hole(s) eyelet-holed1590 oilleted1631 eyed1737 eyeleted1839 pigeonholed1886 1737 Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) (ed. 2) II. xiii. 251 I passed an eyed flexible Probe..through the passage made by the Awl. 1792 A. Adam Rom. Antiq. (ed. 2) 523 The principal part of the machinery of a loom..composed of eyed or hooked threads, through which the warp passes. 1804 J. Abernethy Surg. Observ. 215 By means of an eyed probe. 1881 H. S. Thomas Rod in India (ed. 2) ix. 114 For spinning tackle in India, eyed hooks are much to be preferred to bound hooks. 1906 Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 442 In these days of eye'd flies and neat tin boxes it [sc. a fly-book] presents a most uncouth appearance. 1988 Coarse Fishing Handbk. June 47/2 If it is an eyed hook, the eye should be properly formed and closed. 2006 C. Darke in M. Kite & R. Thomson Conservation of Leather xi. 107/2 For hand sewing glovers use an eyed needle with a round butt and a three-sided point. Compounds eyed hawkmoth n. (also eyed hawk) a European hawkmoth, Smerinthus ocellatus, having a pink hindwing which (when spread open) displays a prominent eyespot. ΚΠ 1720 E. Albin Nat. Hist. Eng. Insects Pl. viii Eyed Hawk-moth. 1843 H. N. Humphreys & J. O. Westwood Brit. Moths I. 7 Smerinthus Ocellatus. The Eyed Hawk-Moth. 1920 P. J. Fryer Insect Pests & Fungus Dis. Fruit & Hops viii. 36 The Eyed Hawk Moth [lays] a single egg on each leaf it visits. 1974 W. Condry Woodlands xiii. 148 The largest moth of willows is the eyed hawk; its voracious caterpillars often strip the leaves off whole sprays in late summer. 2006 M. Golley Compl. Garden Wildlife Bk. (2007) 57 Eyed Hawkmoths will, when disturbed, gently wiggle to and fro, exposing the eyes on the wing. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.OE |
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