Definitions
Etymologies
- Old English ēaġan, plural of ēaġe. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“His ballad-mongering to these 'eyne' alone would set up one of your court rhymesters for a twelvemonth. ”
“With tears till not a tear remain within these eyne of me?”
“He comes; and fawn and branch and moon delight these eyne, iv.”
“But grant me still return of dearest her these eyne may see.”
“Strange things indeed and wondrous saw these eyne of me”
“Oh ye gone from the gaze of these ridded eyne, ii.”
“Whose eyne are strongest cause of sin by him inspiritèd.”
“Her face outshone the sun in shine and she had witching eyne and breasts of ivory white, teeth of marguerite, slender waist and sides dimpled deep and calves like tails of fat sheep; 448 and indeed she was perfect in beauty and loveliness, elegant stature and symmetrical grace, even as saith one, describing her,449”
“From love, which makes these eyne a rill of tears to rain.”
“His heart is burnt by devil-bolts shot by those piercing eyne.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘eyne’.
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phrontistery - e
from phrontistery.info
ecclesiarchy, ecclesiastry, ecdemomania, echinuliform, echoism, echolalia, echopraxia, eclaircise, ?claircissement, eclat, ?clat, eclegme and 616 more...
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play words
words for a play
pert, vicissitude, melancholy, vexation, gaud, attestation, renunciation, wax, wrought, sunder, antipodes, reckoning and 236 more...
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Archaic
Because they just don't make 'em like they used to.
comeling, circuition, assentment, advisement, accompts, apertness, larum, soothfastness, deperdition, marish, covin, tinct and 166 more...
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rememberers
prolix, ageusia, animadversion, anodyne, antic, arabesque, beadle, brachymetropia, colophon, desquamation, diaphoresis, diegesis and 3250 more...
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Olden
wanse, heeld, Waugh, styll, breme, swarf, laund, ver, Hurst, Fae, thern, flet and 30 more...
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