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Eye

noun

The organ of sight. Synonyms: oculus, optic.

Good discernment (either visually or as if visually). "He has an artist's eye"

Attention to what is seen.

An area that is approximately central within some larger region. Synonyms: center, centre, heart, middle. "They ran forward into the heart of the struggle" , "They were in the eye of the storm"

A small hole or loop (as in a needle).

verb

(past & past part. eyed; pres. part. eyeing or eying)

Look at. Synonym: eyeball.

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... dull-green herbage since known as "buffalo grass." Wild turkeys clamored along every watercourse; deer were seen on all sides, buffalo were without number, sometimes in grazing droves, and sometimes dotting the endless plain as far as the eye could reach. Ruffian wolves, white and gray, eyed the travellers askance, keeping a safe distance by day, and howling about the camp all night. Of the antelope and the elk the journal makes no mention. Bourgmont chased a buffalo on horseback and shot ...

— A Half Century of Conflict - Volume I - France and England in North America • Francis Parkman

... mock gesture of an intractable father, Pep reddened and compressed his lips with ill-concealed satisfaction, glancing out of the corner of his eye at the friends sitting near him. What glory for Can Mallorqui! Such a courtship had never been known before. Never had his companions ...

— The Dead Command - From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan • Vicente Blasco Ibanez

... fancy, too, he knows how to enjoy the blessings of life that his province so abundantly bestows upon him. At least, I heard a little rat of a creature with hock-bottle shoulders explaining that a man from Chicago could pull the eye-teeth of a Californian ...

— American Notes • Rudyard Kipling

... humor enables him to "side-step" disastrous and unnecessary encounters and to love people none the less, even when they provoke inward merriment. The boys' pastor will certainly take life seriously, but he cannot take it somberly. Somewhere in his kind, honest eye there is a glimmer, a blessed ...

— The Minister and the Boy • Allan Hoben

... practised eye, the character of the natural vegetation is a sure indication of the fertility of the soil. Where herds of buffaloes are to be seen—their sides shaking with fat—it is quite evident that the pastures upon which they feed cannot be ...

— Talks on Manures • Joseph Harris

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