blue eye
† a. = black eye 2 (cf. blue a. 3). † b. A blueness or dark circle round the eye, from weeping or other cause. c. An eye of which the iris is blue.
| 1552 Huloet, When a wife hathe a blewe eye, she sayth she hath stombled on hir good man his fyste, suggillatio, liuor. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 393 A leane cheeke..a blew eie and sunken. a 1639 S. Ward Serm. 150 (D.) To whom are wounds, broken heads, blue eyes, maimed limbs? 1735 Pope Mor. Ess. ii. 284 When those blue eyes first open'd on the sphere. 1820 Scott Ivanhoe iii, His face was broad, with large blue eyes. |
d. An Australian species of honey-eater (see quots.).
| 1848 J. Gould Birds Australia IV. pl. 68 Entomyza cyanotis, Swains. Blue-faced Entomyza. Blue-eye of the Colonists. 1861 Chambers's Encycl. II. 171/1 Blue-eye (Entomyza cyanotis), a beautiful little bird, abundant..in New South Wales. |