EYE

I. noun Etymology: Middle English, from Old English ēage; akin to Old High German ouga ~, Latin oculus, Greek ōps ~, face, Sanskrit akṣi ~ Date: before 12th century 1. a specialized light-sensitive sensory structure of animals that in nearly all vertebrates, most arthropods, and some mollusks is the image-forming organ of sight, all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including ~lids, ~lashes, and ~brows, c. the faculty of seeing with ~s, the faculty of intellectual or aesthetic perception or appreciation , skill or ability dependent upon ~sight , look , glance , e. an attentive look , attention , notice , close observation ; scrutiny , point of view , judgment , something having an appearance suggestive of an ~: as, the hole through the head of a needle, a usually circular marking (as on a peacock's tail), loop , an undeveloped bud (as on a potato), an area like a hole in the center of a tropical cyclone marked by only light winds or complete calm with no precipitation, the center of a flower especially when differently colored or marked, g. a triangular piece of beef cut from between the top and bottom of a round, the chief muscle of a chop, a compact mass of muscular tissue usually embedded in fat in a rib or loin cut of meat, a device (as a photoelectric cell) that functions in a manner analogous to human vision, something central ; center , the direction from which the wind is blowing, ~less adjective ~like adjective II. verb (~d; ~ing or eying) Date: 15th century transitive verb 1. a. to fix the ~s on ; look at , contemplate , consider , to watch or study closely , to furnish with an ~, intransitive verb seem , look , ~r noun