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Eyelash   /ˈaɪlˌæʃ/   Listen
noun
Eyelash  n.  
1.
The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; usually in the pl.
2.
A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.





Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48


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"Eyelash" Quotes from Famous Books



... up." He might have attempted to save the murderer had time offered, but when the confession was wrung from him, the mob, cheated of one lynching, opened fire upon him as by a common impulse. In the batting of an eyelash, Bailey fell in a crumpled heap, his ...
— Hidden Gold • Wilder Anthony
... sallied forth; {157c} Short were their lives, long is the grief of those who loved them; Seven times their number of Lloegrians had they slain; After the conflict their wives {157d} raised a scream; {157e} And many a mother has the tear on her eyelash. ...
— Y Gododin - A Poem on the Battle of Cattraeth • Aneurin
... I know every eyelash, long as they are. I believe I could say them. But then I was always good at poetry." This ...
— The Brother of Daphne • Dornford Yates
... arm, as the carriage of his head made clear at any time, he knew to use it with the instinct of the eyelash, but it seemed absurdly inadequate against the broad long weapon of his opponent, who had augmented his attack with a dirk drawn in the left hand, and sought lustily to bring death to his opponent by point as well as edge. A light dress rapier obviously must do its business quickly ...
— Doom Castle • Neil Munro
... have seen her, and I have asked her, and not an eyelash drooped as she affirmed a complete ignorance of ...
— The Old Stone House and Other Stories • Anna Katharine Green


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