Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Having no lid or lids.
- adj. Archaic Watchful; vigilant.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having no lid; especially, having no eyelids; hence, poetically, incapable of closing the eyes; sleepless; perpetually vigilant.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Having no lid, or not covered with the lids, as the eyes; hence, sleepless; watchful.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. not having or covered with a lid or lids
- adj. always watchful
- adj. having no lid
Examples
“As for News of the World, the media has alighted on one of its convenient little narratives, this one about the all-powerful media mogul, his lidless eyes gazing over every corner, closet and cellar of his empire, his obedient minions debasing everything they touch.”
“Three Figures Beneath a Tree" 1907-8 features women with lidless almond-shaped eyes, and faces with strange concave surfaces - depicted in a shallow stage set full of sharp wrinkles and ridges.”
“The lidless eyes had the dull and glacial gaze of an octopus, but the nose with quivering flaps and the enormous mouth furnished with black teeth gave it an expression of melancholy ferocity and disdainful sadness.”
“Matt also has dreams and hallucinations, dreams of being in the mortuary room surrounded by dead bodies being worked on by the mortician, Aickman (John Bluethner), or just standing around him staring through lidless eyes (because Aickman had cut them off).”
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“The wrinkled lids flapped shut as the grit struck it, but the sand stuck to the wounded, lidless eyes, and the Executioner turned his face away, spitting grains.”
“His face was featureless, save for gaping orifices and for the lidless eyes that burned under hairless brows.”
“Hagan might be, when Tim himself appeared around the corner, bearing a lidless lard-can that foamed with steam beer.”
“But now, with their translucent skin, white lidless eyes and gaping circular mouths, they were only human in the barest outline.”
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“Its vertical slit pupils were centered in large lidless yellow eyes.”
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“The harpy, whose name was Niko, was suddenly back at our table and shooting me death looks with her lidless eagle eyes.”
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