glass eye
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- noun An artificial eye fashioned of glass.
- noun An eye whose iris is whitish, pale, or colorless.
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- Last time Grandma brought a man home to dinner he took his glass eye out at the table and set it alongside his spoon while he ate. — Visions of Sugar Plums
- Squire Hawkins's wig got awry, his glass eye turned in toward his nose, and he had great difficulty in keeping his teeth from falling out. — The Hoosier Schoolmaster
- His glass eye still rolled loosely in its socket and he'd never quite lost that characteristic three-toothed grin. — F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
- His glass eye gleamed in a jagged flash of lightning. — F ;SF - vol 105 issue 01 - July 2003
- Sometimes the glass eye got slightly out of its place, and Mr. Grant had to force it in again by this odd contortion of his eyebrows, which I had translated into all manner of kind intentions. — James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
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