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Oculus   Listen
noun
Oculus  n.  (pl. oculi)  
1.
An eye.
2.
(Arch.) A round window, usually a small one.
3.
(Bot.) A leaf bud.





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"Oculus" Quotes from Famous Books



... Venus aethereos inter dea candida nimbos Dona fereus aderat;{HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} {HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS} Arma sub adversa posuit radiantia quercum. Ille, deae donis et tanto laetus honore, Expleri nequit, atque oculus per singula volvit, Miraturque, interque manus et brachia versat Terribilem cristis galeam flammasque vomentem, Fatiferumque ensem, loricam ...
— The Ramayana • VALMIKI
... della Torre (who died in 1299) built the chapel of SS. Ambrogio and Margherita, which was used as the sepulchral chapel of the family. It opens to the nave, with two pointed arches with an oculus above. In the middle of the side wall, between two sarcophagi of white marble, is that of Allegranza di Rho, second wife of Moschino della Torre and mother of the Patriarch Gastone. She died July 23, 1300, and her sarcophagus is the only one of the ...
— The Shores of the Adriatic - The Austrian Side, The Kuestenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia • F. Hamilton Jackson
... new locality where the man that made that book is covering the fences with his placards, asking me whether I wrote that letter which he keeps in stereotype and has kept so any time these dozen or fifteen years. Animus tuus oculus, as the freshmen used to say. If her Majesty, the Queen of England, sends you a copy of her "Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands," be sure you mark your letter of thanks ...
— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.


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