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eyeball

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
I. noun PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES be drugged up to the eyeballs EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Are you so anxious to know what it feels like to have both eyeballs gouged out, one at a time? ▪ Get the sport in front of as many eyeballs as possible. ▪ I could see ...

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also eye-ball , 1580s, from eye (n.) + ball (n.1). As a verb, 1901, American English slang. Related: Eyeballed ; eyeballing .\n

Usage examples of eyeball.

Lucas had a strong suspicion that Amaryllis was stuffed to her pretty eyeballs with a host of old-fashioned, boring, and very inconvenient virtues.

Engineer Tcud and Arbitrator Ranz stood slightly behind him, eyeballing the humans in awe.

One woman gets visibly queasy when I describe punched-out areas of skull and an eyeball that was virtually avulsed, or hanging out of the socket.

Whenever defects in focusing are present, particularly in astigmatism, extra work is thrown on the ciliary muscle as well as the muscles that move the eyeballs.

While the greater portion of the eyeball is concerned in the focusing of light, the crystalline lens, operated by the ciliary muscle, serves as the special instrument of accommodation.

Those provers who have taken experimentally a tincture made from the wood and bark and leaves of the Blackthorn, all had to complain of sharp pains in the right eyeball and accordingly the diluted tincture is found, when administered in small quantities, to give signal relief for ciliary neuralgia, arising from a functional disorder of the structures within the eyeball.

Glazed eyeballs on paper doilies, a big liver like a brazil-nut, crunchy marrow-filled femurs, a row of bean-shaped kidneys, a king-size penis coyly curled against its testicles, chewy ropes of muscles, big squares of skin rolled up like apricot leather?

The chemical creates the disabling pathology that gives this stuff its name, a wet-looking, bleary, teary, swollen eyeball that can no longer focus--hence, Wet Eye.

The debris of the eyeball was enucleated and a drain was placed in the frontal wound, coming out through the orbit.

Whenever Fent looked aft through the dark hours, there his father sat still and unblinking, the moonlight slicking his eyeballs.

Some enterprising filarial worms, having worked their way up into his eyeballs, started making him blind, and he grew very gaunt and miserable.

The optic nerve leaves the eyeball just to one side of the fovea and its point of exit is the one place in the retina where photo-receptors are completely absent.

His eyelids, now delicately fuzzed with byrus, rippled as the eyeballs beneath them moved.

After a half deck of Blind Tiger, four blue octagons, and three squirts from an amdex haler, his eyeballs were threatening to revolve but he was on his feet and motoring.

These plates may have changed the shape of the eyeball in response to water pressure, allowing the prey to remain in focus as the ichthyosaur chased after it.