eye
/ˈaɪ̯/ nom A1En français : œil, chas, trou, œillet
- An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”). · Near-synonym: eyeball· Bright lights really hurt my eyes.
- The visual sense. · The car was quite pleasing to the eye, but impractical.
- The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour. · Brown, blue, green, hazel eyes.· Natalie’s brown eyes looked into Jim’s blue eyes, and the girl and boy flirted.
- Attention, notice. · That dress caught her eye.
- The ability to notice what others might miss. · He has an eye for talent.
- A sexually or romantically suggestive one. · She was giving him the eye at the bar.
- An angry, annoyed, or malicious one. · When the car cut her off, she gave him the eye.
- An evil one. · He sought the help of an alchemist regarding remedies to ward off the eye.
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Lovely as the Greek girls of Cyprus or Chios, Mercédès boasted the same bright flashing eyes of jet, and ripe, round, coral lips.
One more practiced in the arts of great cities would have hid her blushes beneath a veil, or, at least, have cast down her thickly fringed lashes, so as to have concealed the liquid lustre of her animated eyes; but, on the contrary, the delighted girl looked around her with a smile that seemed to say: “If you are my friends, rejoice with me, for I am very happy.”
Dantès, you must tell my uncle that the emperor remembered him, and you will see it will bring tears into the old soldier’s eyes.
However, those experienced in navigation saw plainly that if any accident had occurred, it was not to the vessel herself, for she bore down with all the evidence of being skilfully handled, the anchor a-cockbill, the jib-boom guys already eased off, and standing by the side of the pilot, who was steering the Pharaon towards the narrow entrance of the inner port, was a young man, who, with activity and vigilant eye, watched every motion of the ship, and repeated each direction of the pilot.
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