eyed, ppl. a.
(aɪd)
[f. eye n.1 + -ed2.]
1. Furnished with eyes.
| c 1374 Chaucer Troylus iv. 1459 Youre father is in sleighte as Argus eyed. c 1430 Lydg. Bochas Prol. (1544) 54 A prince..Eyed as a tigre with reason and foresight. 1553 Eden Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.) 15 An Elephant..is..eyed lyke a swine. 1579 Spenser Sheph. Cal. Sept. 203 For Roffy is wise, and as Argus eyed. 1643 Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 154 He who even now seemed eyed, eared, strong and flourishing; will suddenly wax blind, deafe, and fall to nothing. 1832 Tennyson Œnone 196 A wild and wanton pard, Eyed like the evening star. |
| fig. 1869 R. Lytton Orval 117 The eyed air Sees not. |
b. With adj. prefix, as Argus-eyed, blue-eyed, fierce-eyed, hollow-eyed, two-eyed, wet-eyed: see the adjs.
† c. Gifted with sight, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted. Also fig. Wide awake to. Obs.
| 1584 T. Bastard Chrestoleros (1880) 82 Men..Eyde to their profit, but blinde to their paine. 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. iii. 7 They were both so watchfull and well eyde, That [etc.]. 1618 Rowlands Sacred Mem. 45 Borne blind they knew..And most miraculous, now perfect ey'd. 1632 J. Hayward tr. Biondi's Eromena 87 A god, though blinde, yet eyed sufficiently to spie out two spirits. |
2. Furnished with an eye. Cf. eye 20, 21.
| 1804 Abernethy Surg. Observ. 215 By means of an eyed probe. 1886 Academy 22 May 358/2 Mr. Hall invented eyed-hooks [in fly-fishing]. |
3. Marked or ornamented as with eyes: dappled, spotted. eyed hawk-moth (Smerinthus Ocellatus): a moth of the family Sphingidæ.
| 1815 Shelley Alastor 450 Soft mossy lawns..eyed with blooms. 1821 Keats Lamia 50 Eyed like a peacock. 1825 Berry Encycl. Herald. I., Eyed..a term used in speaking of the variegated spots in the peacock's tail. 1843 Westwood Brit. Moths I. 7 Smerinthus Ocellatus. The Eyed Hawk-Moth. 1878 Browning Poets Croisic 53 That which perks and preens The eyed wing. 1889 in Elvin Dict. Heraldry. |