eyed
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Pronunciation: ipa: /aɪd/
homophone: I'd
rhymes: -aɪd
Etymology: From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.
Senses: examples: text: The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg.
ref: 1980, Earl Leitritz with Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, →ISBN, page 24:
glosses: Having eyes.
examples: text: The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
glosses: Having eye-like spots.
examples: text: What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women.
ref: c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene ii]:
text: Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent.
ref: 1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6:
text: That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […]
ref: 1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Oliver Twist:
text: Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.
ref: 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592
text: Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel.
ref: 1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61:
glosses: Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
Hyponyms: sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: almond-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: Argus-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: banjo-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: beady-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: bedroom-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: black-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: blink-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: blue-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: boggle-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: boss-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: brown-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: buck-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: bug-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cat-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cleareyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: clear-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cockeyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cock-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cold-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: coon-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cow-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: cross-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: dark-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: dew-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: dewy-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: doe-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: double-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: dove-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: dry-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: eagle-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: falcon-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: fish-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: flint-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: fly-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: four-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: frog-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: full-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: gee-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: gimlet-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: glassy-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: goggle-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: golden-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: gooch-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: googly-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: gooseberry-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: gravy-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: green-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: grey-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: hawk-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: hazel-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: heavyeyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: hollow-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: inland snake-eyed skink
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: laughing-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: lynx-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: many-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: misty-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: mole-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: moon-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: mope-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: multieyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: odd-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: one-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: open-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: owly-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: ox-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: oxeyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: pie-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: pin-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: pink-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: pissy-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: popeyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: pop eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: pop-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: red-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: redeyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: rosy-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: round-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: sad-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: saucer-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: sharp-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: shifty-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: single-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: slant-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: slit-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: sloe-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: square-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: squint-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: stalk-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: starry-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: steely-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: sunken-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: swivel-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: teary-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: thrum-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: twinkly-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: two-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: wall-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: weak-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: wheel-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: wide-eyed
sense: having a particular kind or number of eyes
word: wild-eyed
Derived terms: archipelago big-eyed treefrog
bare-eyed cockatoo
big-eyed tree frog
bird-eyed
black-eyed bean
black-eyed pea
black-eyed Susan
black eyed susan
bleary-eyed
blue-eyed boy
blue-eyed cormorant
blue-eyed grass
blue-eyed Mary
blue-eyed shag
blue-eyed soul
bright-eyed
bright eyed and bushy tailed
bright-eyed and bushy-tailed
brown-eyed soul
brown-eyed Susan
bug-eyed monster
dark-eyed junco
dead-eyed
deepwater big-eyed worm eel
dewy-eyed
eyed ladybug
eyedness
fire-eyed diucon
four-eyed fish
goggle-eyed plover
green big-eyed tree frog
green-eyed monster
Mission golden-eyed treefrog
one eyed jack
one-eyed jack
one-eyed king
one-eyed monster
one-eyed snake
one-eyed trouser snake
pearly-eyed thrasher
side-eyed
stalk-eyed fly
steely-eyed missile man
two-eyed jack
two-eyed steak
uneyed
white-eyed attila
white-eyed gull
yellow-eyed grass
yellow-eyed penguin