n.
organ of sight
1) to blink; close, shut; open; roll; squint one's ~s
2) to drop, lower; lift, raise one's ~s
3) to rest; strain one's ~s
4) to lay, set one's ~s on smt. ('to see smt.')
5) to keep one's ~s open, peeled ( esp. AE ), skinned ( BE ) ('to be watchful')
6) the naked ~ (the meteor could be seen with the naked ~)
7) bulging; glassy ~s
8) ~s twinkle; twitch
9) a pair of ~s
10) in one's ~s (tears were in his ~s; fear could be seen in their ~s)
vision, sight
11) good, strong; weak ~s
12) an eagle ~ ('keen sight')
area around the ~s
13) (also fig .) a black ~ (to give smb. a black ~)
look, glance
14) to cast an ~ on smt.; to run one's ~ over smt.; to fix one's ~ on smt.
15) to take one's ~s off (they could not take their ~s off Hannah)
16) an anxious; critical; sharp, watchful, weather; suspicious ~
17) a jaundiced ~ ('an envious, hostile look')
18) (of one who flirts) bedroom ('seductive') ~s; a roving, wandering ~ (he has a roving ~)
19) curious, prying; piercing ~s
attention
interest
observation
20) to catch smb.'s ~
21) to open smb.'s ~s (to the truth)
22) to close, shut one's ~s (to the truth); to turn a blind ~ to smt. ('to let smt. pass as if unnoticed')
23) to keep an ~ on smt. ('to keep smt. under observation')
24) to keep an ~ out for smt. ('to watch for smt. attentively')
25) the public ~ (to be constantly in the public ~)
26) with an ~ to (with an ~ to public opinion)
judgment
viewpoint
27) a good, keen ~
28) an ~ for (she has a good ~ for distances)
29) to the trained ~
30) in smb.'s ~s (in the ~s of the law, he is innocent until proved guilty)
perception
appreciation
31) to open smb.'s ~s to smt.
32) an ~ for (an ~ for beauty; to have an ~ for a good bargain)
device that detects
33) an electric ~
detective
( colloq. )
34) a private ~
prosthesis for an ~
35) an artificial, glass ~
misc.
36) an ~ for an ~ ('an equivalent retaliation'); to feast one's ~s on smt. ('to look at smt. with great pleasure'); to give smb. the ~ ('to flirt with smb.') or ('to give smb. a visual signal'); to make ~s at smb. ('to look lovingly at smb.'); to see ~ to ~ with ('to agree with'); the mind's ~ ('the visual recollection of past events'); the evil ~ ('a look intended to inflict harm'); his ~ fell on a bargain ('he discovered a bargain'); under the teacher's watchful ~; without batting an ~ ( esp. AE ) ('while remaining calm'); easy on the ~s ('pretty'); more than meets the ~ ('more than is seen'); to look someone in the ~ ('to look at someone directly'); before one's ~s