narrow-eyed, a.
[narrow a. 1 and 5.]
† 1. Observing closely. Obs. rare—1.
| 1599 B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. ii. vi, These narrow⁓ey'd decypherers..that will extort strange and abstruse meanings out of any subject. |
2. Having narrow eyes. Also fig.
| 1607 Middleton Phœnix ii. iii. 147 They blind him with beer, and make him so narrow-eyed, that he winks naturally at all their knaveries. 1687 Wood Life 5 Sept. (O.H.S.) III. 236 All the Chineses, Tartars, and all that part of the world was narrow-eyed. 1703 Lond. Gaz. No. 3942/4 A black slight Limb'd Mare,..narrow Ey'd. 1893 F. Adams New Egypt 160 The..obstinate, narrow-eyed, restless man! |