Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An obsolete variant of eye. Chaucer.

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Examples

  • The form _eyry_, or _eyrie_, was introduced by Spelman (_Gl_. 1664) to countenance an erroneous derivation from the Saxon _eghe_, an egg.

    The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806

  • WYNE: Meue [move?] thy fore fyngre up and down upon the ende of thy thombe afore thy eghe.

    The Old Foodie 2009

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