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eyebeam

American  
[ahy-beem] / ˈaɪˌbim /

noun

  1. a beam or glance of the eye.


Etymology

Origin of eyebeam

First recorded in 1580–90; eye + beam

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When no gentle eyebeam charms; No fond hope the bosom warms; Of thinking the lone mind is tired,— Naught seems bright to be desired.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller

I am thy spirit, yoke-fellow;   Of thine eye I am eyebeam.

From Poems Household Edition by Ralph Waldo Emerson

They could not endure the clear eyebeam of Science, which has searched their subterranean abodes, withering them up and metamorphosing them into mere physiological forces.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various

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