glass eye

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  1. noun An artificial eye fashioned of glass.
  2. 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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