Eyen vs Eyed - What's the difference?

eyen | eyed |

As a noun eyen

is plural of lang=enCategory:English plurals.

As an adjective eyed is

having eyes.

As a verb eyed is

past tense of eye.

eyen

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l)

Noun

(head)

(dialectal, or, obsolete) English plurals

:* So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye, Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge. — Chaucer, 1390

:* While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen .'' — Spenser, ''The Fairie Queen

:* {{quote-book, year=1897

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Anagrams

* *

eyed

English

Adjective

(-)

Having eyes.

Having eye-like spots.

The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.

(in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.

* 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science , New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592:

Gray and blue-eyed' parents will tend to have either gray-'''eyed''' children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-'''eyed''' children according as the gray-' eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous.

Derived terms

* black-eyed bean * black-eyed Susan * blue-eyed boy * boss-eyed * bug-eyed * cock-eyed * cross-eyed * doe-eyed * dewy-eyed * eagle-eyed * glassy-eyed * goggle-eyed * googly-eyed * hawk-eyed * open-eyed * oxeyed * pie-eyed * pop-eyed * wall-eyed * wide-eyed

Verb

(head)

(eye)