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eyne

  • plural
    of eye.
    eye
    noun
    the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.

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"She has no time To looken backe, her eyne be fixed before."

From The International Monthly, Volume 4, No. 1, August, 1851 by Various

"My lady shee is all woe-begone, And the teares they falle from her eyne; And aye she laments the deadlye feude Betweene her house and thine."

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various

Alas, that ever with mine eyne I should see this sight!

From Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse by Various

"Come," said he, "an' ye go to that, I'll wrestle ye, my lad, if so be you will let me blindfold your eyne."

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade

Of this termination we have evident remains in the words oxen, hosen, shoon, eyne, words more or less antiquated.

From A Handbook of the English Language by R. G. (Robert Gordon) Latham