Noun

An organ through which animals see.

* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)

, chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.}}

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=17 citation , passage=The face which emerged was not reassuring. It was blunt and grey, the nose springing thick and flat from high on the frontal bone of the forehead, whilst his eyes were narrow slits of dark in a tight bandage of tissue. 

* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Fenella Saunders, magazine=(American Scientist)

, title= Tiny Lenses See the Big Picture , passage=The single-imaging optic of the mammalian eye offers some distinct visual advantages. Such lenses can take in photons from a wide range of angles, increasing light sensitivity. They also have high spatial resolution, resolving incoming images in minute detail.}}

Bright lights really hurt my eyes .

The visual sense.

Attention, notice.

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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=5 , passage=In the eyes of Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke the apotheosis of the Celebrity was complete. The people of Asquith were not only willing to attend the house-warming, but had been worked up to the pitch of eagerness. The Celebrity as a matter of course was master of ceremonies.}}

The ability to notice what others might miss.

* , chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

A meaningful stare or look.

A private eye: a privately hired detective or investigator.

* 2003 , (Erik Larson), , Random House, ISBN 0609608444, page 199

Far more annoying were the letters from parents of missing daughters and the private detectives who had begun showing up at his door. Independently of each other, the Cigrand and Conner families had hired “eyes ” to search for their missing daughters.

A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.

A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.

The relatively clear and calm center of a hurricane or other such storm.

A mark on an animal, such as a peacock or butterfly, resembling a human eye.

The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.

A reproductive bud in a potato.

(informal) The dark brown center of a black-eyed Susan flower.

A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc. — e.g. at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; through a crank; at the end of a rope; or through a millstone.

That which resembles the eye in relative importance or beauty.

* (rfdate) (William Shakespeare)

the very eye of that proverb

* (rfdate) (John Milton)

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts

Tinge; shade of colour.

* (rfdate) (Boyle)

Red with an eye of blue makes a purple.

One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.

The circle in the centre of a volute.

Noun

(en noun)

A brood.

an eye of pheasants

Noun

(en noun)

A young goat.

* 1719 , (Daniel Defoe), ,

I went, indeed, intending to kill a kid' out of my own flock; and bring it home and dress it; but as I was going I saw a she-goat lying down in the shade, and two young ' kids sitting by her.

Of a goat, the state of being pregnant: in kid .

Kidskin.

* 1912 , (Jean Webster), ,

I have three pairs of kid' gloves. I've had '''kid''' mittens before from the Christmas tree, but never real ' kid gloves with five fingers.

(uncountable) The meat of a young goat.

* 1819 , (Walter Scott), , Chapter 5,

So saying, he gathered together, and brought to a flame, the decaying brands which lay scattered on the ample hearth; took from the larger board a mess of pottage and seethed kid , placed it upon the small table at which he had himself supped, and, without waiting the Jew's thanks, went to the other side of the hall; .

A young antelope.

(colloquial) A child or young person.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

, chapter=15 citation , passage=‘No,’ said Luke, grinning at her. ‘You're not dull enough! […] What about the kid' s clothes? I don't suppose they were anything to write home about, but didn't you keep anything? A bootee or a bit of embroidery or anything at all?’}}

* 2007 July 5, (Barack Obama), ,

Our kids' are why all of you are in this room today. Our '''kids''' are why you wake up wondering how you'll make a difference and go to bed thinking about tomorrow's lesson plan. Our ' kids are why you walk into that classroom every day even when you're not getting the support, or the pay, or the respect that you deserve - because you believe that every child should have a chance to succeed; that every child can be taught.

(colloquial) An inexperienced person or one in a junior position.

* 2007 June 3, (Eben Moglen), speech, ,

I remember as a kid lawyer working at IBM in the summer of 1983, when a large insurance company in Hartford, Connecticut, for the first time asked to buy 12000 IBM PCs in a single order.

(nautical) A small wooden mess tub in which sailors received their food.

(Cooper)

Noun

(en noun)

A fagot; a bundle of heath and furze.

(Wright)