Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Using (as a habit) the right eye more than the left in seeing.

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  • adjective having only the right eye

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Examples

  • With luck, you will turn out to be right-eyed and right-handed or left-eyed and left-handed.

    Simple Test to Find Your Dominant Eye 2009

  • While she was doing this, the real right-eyed old man came home, and the left-eyed one on the shelf was cooked into fox soup.

    Asian-Pacific Folktales and Legends Jeannette L. Faurot 1995

  • Between 90 and 95 percent of all persons are right-handed, right-eyed, and right-footed.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • Between 90 and 95 percent of all persons are right-handed, right-eyed, and right-footed.

    THE HIDDEN FACE OF GOD GERALD L. SCHROEDER 2001

  • If lightness and darkness meet us so that we see the former in a 'right-eyed', and the latter in a

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • To the dim light, clearly, our eyes will respond more with the 'left-eyed' than with the 'right-eyed' form of vision.

    Man or Matter Ernst Lehrs

  • He was walking hurriedly down the street, in haste to return to his duties, his blonde head erect, his cap at right-eyed angle, his uniform buttoned tightly across his broad shoulders and around his trim waist, his sword on hip, and his eyes straight in front of him.

    Emerson's Wife and Other Western Stories Florence Finch Kelly 1898

  • The flounders called "right-eyed" sit on the ocean floor and their left.

    About.com Email 2010

  • To determine whether you are right-eyed or left-eyed, hold a pencil straight up and down at arms 'length in front of you at eye level.

    unknown title 2009

  • So if the pencil lined up with your right eye open and seemed to move to the right when your left eye was open, then your right eye is dominant and you are right-eyed.

    unknown title 2009

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