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单词 glass eye
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glass eyen.

Forms: see glass n.1 and eye n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: glass n.1, eye n.1
Etymology: < glass n.1 + eye n.1With sense 1a compare eyeglass n. and also Swedish glasögon , plural (early 16th cent.). In sense 4a the bird is so called on account of its bluish-white iris.
1.
a. An eye-glass; usually plural, spectacles, ‘glasses’. Obsolete.
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the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > spectacles
spectaclec1386
a pair of spectacles1423
ocularies?a1425
barnaclea1566
eye1568
sight-glasses1605
glass eye1608
prospective glass1616
sights1619
prospectivea1635
nose-compasses1654
glass1660
lunettes1681
peeper1699
eyeglass1760
specs1807
winker1816
gig-lamps1853
nose-riders1875
window1896
cheaters1920
the world > health and disease > healing > ophthalmology or optometry > aids to defective vision > [noun] > eye-glass or monocle
eyeglass1593
glass eye1721
quizzing glass1800
quizzer1806
ogling-glass1843
monocle1873
monoculus1892
window1896
Piccadilly window1897
windowpane1923
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xx. 159 Get thee glasse eyes, and like a scuruy polititian seeme to see the things thou doest not. View more context for this quotation
1639 R. Davenport New Tricke to cheat Divell iv. i Enter the Divell like a Gentleman, with glasse eyes.
1642 Remonstr. Church Ireland 5 His Highness was..riding up and down disguised, and with glasse-eyes, desiring not to be discovered.
1719 in T. D'Urfey Wit & Mirth III. 18 With a pair of Glass Eyes to clap on my Nose.
1721 London Gaz. No. 5925/3 He..wears a Glass Eye.
b. (See quot. 1796.)
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1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Glass Eyes, a nick name for one wearing spectacles.
2. A false eye made of glass (see also eye n.1 16a).
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the world > health and disease > healing > medical appliances or equipment > prosthesis or spare part > [noun] > eye
glass eye1687
eye1750
1687 E. Settle Refl. Dryden's Plays 24 I have heard of glass Eyes being taken out of peoples heads, and put in agen, but never of natural Eyes before.
1710 True Acct. Last Distemper T. Whigg ii. 39 A Glass Eye, the Workmanship..of the Famous Gualtero.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 When a glass eye fits the socket nicely, it moves with it.
3. Farriery. A species of blindness in horses.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of eyes
walleye1523
lunacy1600
moon-eye1607
eyes of wall1611
dragon1639
moon blindnessc1720
moonc1721
glass eye1831
pink-eye1855
1831 W. Youatt Horse vii. 116 Another species of blindness..is Gutta Serena, commonly called the glass eye. The pupil is more than usually dilated;—it is immovable and bright, and glassy.
4. A name given to:
a. a Jamaican thrush ( Turdus jamaicensis), so called from its bluish-white glass-like iris.
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the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > family Muscicapidae (thrushes, etc.) > subfamily Turdinae > [noun] > genus Turdus (thrush) > other types of
wine thrush1731
glass eye1847
Kurrichane thrush1924
1847 P. H. Gosse & R. Hill Birds of Jamaica 143 My lad shot a male Glass-eye by the roadside at Cave.
b. (See quot. 1884-5.)
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1884–5 Riverside Nat. Hist. (1888) III. 228 Wall-eyed pike..glass-eye, and dory are names in which the largest of the American pike-perches (Stizostedion vitreum) rejoices.
5. = bull's-eye n. 2.
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1886 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Dec. 5/1 The pale rays of the sun show through the glass eyes on deck.

Derivatives

glass-eyed adj. having a glass eye (in various senses).
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > by size, shape, etc. > having
goggle-eyedc1384
well-eyed1483
pink-eyed1519
hollow-eyeda1529
small-eyed1555
great-eyed1558
bird-eyed1564
out-eyed1570
large-eyed1575
full-eyed1581
bright-eyed1590
wall-eyed1590
beetle-eyed1594
fire-eyed?1594
young-eyed1600
open-eyed1601
soft-eyed1606
narrow-eyed1607
broad-eyed?1611
saucer-eyed1612
ox-eyed1621
pig-eyed1655
glare-eyed1683
pit-eyed1696
dove-eyed1717
laughing-eyed1784
almond1786
wide-eyed1789
moon-eyed1790
big-eyed1792
gooseberry-eyed1796
red-eyed1800
unsealed1800
screw-eyed1810
starry-eyed1818
pinkie-eyed1824
pop-eyed1830
bead-eyed1835
fishy-eyed1836
almond-eyed1849
boopic1854
sharp-set1865
bug-eyed1872
beady-eyed1873
bias-eyed1877
blank-eyed1881
gape-eyed1889
glass-eyed1889
stone-eyed1890
pie-eyed1900
slitty-eyed1908
steely-eyed1964
megalopic1985
1889 Cent. Dict. Glass-eyed, having a white eye, or one which in some other respect, as texture or fixedness, is likened to glass or to a glass eye; wall-eyed; goggle-eyed.
1895 Westm. Gaz. 17 Sept. 3/2 Are glass-eyed people fairly cheerful?
glass-eyed pike n. the pike-perch, Stizostedion americanum (or S. vitreum); cf. wall-eyed pike at wall-eyed adj. 3.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > genus Stizostedion (pike-perches) > pike-perch
salmon1798
sudak1799
pikeperch1834
yellow pike1835
perch-pike1884
glass-eyed pike1890
1890 Cent. Dict. at Pike Glass-eyed pike.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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