eye socket

noun

the socket or orbit of the eye.

Origin of eye socket

First recorded in 1835–45

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Examples from the Web for eye socket

I dubbed him the King of the Eye-Socket school, and instead of getting angry he actually thanked me for it.
The Prairie Wife|Arthur Stringer
He walked with cautious steps, feeling his way with a staff, down to the seaside, to wash his eye-socket in the waves.
The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911)|Charles Mills Gayley
That thumb, feeling eagerly for his eye-socket, woke Bob to a new world.
The Rules of the Game|Stewart Edward White
Shaped like an eye-socket, and shut in on every side by precipitous rock walls, the gulf looked at first sight inaccessible.
Renshaw Fanning's Quest|Bertram Mitford

Muzzle shorter than the diameter of the eye-socket; the bony palate not extending past the hinder end of the median molar.
A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 1 (of 2)|Henry O. Forbes

British Dictionary definitions for eye socket

eye socket

noun

the nontechnical name for orbit (def. 3)

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Medicine definitions for eye socket

eye socket

n.

orbital cavity

eye socket

noun

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