† Eyeshipn.
Obsolete. rare.
With possessive adjective: a (mock) title of respect given to a person known as ‘the Eye’ (of a monarch or other ruler). Cf. eye n.1 6a.
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1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 29 The senate bids his Eyeship [Gk. τὸν βασιλέως ὀϕθαλμὸν, lit. ‘the eye of the king’] welcome; And asks his presence to the hall.
1835 Monthly Repos. 9 278 No doubt your Barbarian Eyeship finds yourself very comfortable here in Canton.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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n.1820- to sweat it out
- to sweat on the top-line
- to sweat on the topline
- to sweat one's guts out
- to sweat the small stuff
- to sweep a person off his feet
- to sweep off
- to sweep off his feet
- to sweep something under the carpet
- to sweep something under the rug
- to sweep the board
- to sweep the deck or decks
- to sweep the deck or usually decks
- to sweep the stakes
- to sweep the table
- to sweep to gage
- to sweep under the carpet
- to sweep under the rug
- to sweeten the pill
- to swelt one's heart
- to swerve from, shun, refuse one's steps
- to swerve out of kind
- to swim against the stream or the tide
- to swim between two waters
- to swim between two waters occasionally also streams