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  1. noun An organ of vision or of light sensitivity.
  2. noun Either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of the skull, functioning together or independently, each having a lens capable of focusing incident light on an internal photosensitive retina from which nerve impulses are sent to the brain; the vertebrate organ of vision.
  3. noun The external, visible portion of this organ together with its associated structures, especially the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows.

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  1. Middle English, from Old English ēge, ēage; see okw- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Early modern English also eie; from Middle English eye, eghe, eighe, ege, eie, ehe, ee, etc., plural eyen, eghen, eighen, egen, eien, eene, ein, iyen, ine, etc., also later eyes, etc., from Anglo-Saxon eáge, plural eágan = Old Saxon ōga = ÓFriesic āge, ōge = Middle Low German Low German ōge = Dutch oog = Old High German ouga, Middle High German ouge, German auge = Icelandic auga = Old Swedish auga, Swedish öga = Danish öie = Goth, augo, eye. The Teutonic forms do not quite agree with the other Aryan forms, which are somewhat irregular: L. oculus (later Italian occhio = Spanish ojo = Portuguese olho = Provencal olh = French œil: see œiliad, eyelet, ocular, etc.), diminutive of an assumed *ocus; = Greek ὅσσ, σ1ε, dual of an assumed *ὅσσ, σ1ος for *ὅκγος, (ὅκκος, in Hesychius) (cf. Bœotian ὅκταλλος, or ὅκκαλλος, reg. Greek ὀφθαλμός, eye); = Old Bulgarian Bulgarian Servian Bohemian Polish oko = Old Prussian agins = Lithuanian akis = Lettish acs = Sanskrit akshan, eye; apparently from the root (Greek *ὀκ, *ὀπ) of Greek ὅσσ, σ1εσθαι, see; ὅψεσθαι, future associated with ὁρᾶν, see, ὅπωπα, I have seen, ὀπτικός, pertaining to sight, ὀπτήρ, one who sees, ὅψ (ὀπ-), ω῎ψ (ὠπ-), the eye, countenance, etc.; cf. Sanskritīksh, see. The word eye appears disguised in dais-y and wind-ow, q. v. See ocular, etc., ophthalmia, etc., optic, etc.
  2. First in modern E.; = Dutch oogen = Danish öjne, eye, see; from the noun. Cf. ogle.
  3. A corruption due to misdividing a nye as an eye, a nest, as eyas of nias, nyas: see nye, nide, nidus.
 

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