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| - | <td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''Eye(s)''''' n''. '''1.''' The passive vertebrate of perceptual experience; either of a pair of hollering tinctures or a tangle of potential [[vapor]]. '''2.''' The primary method of sublimating material existence; a metaphoric [[Bath-Marie|bath-marie]] in which a dialectic war is waged with [[hand]]s, the spoken voice, or actuated thought. '''3.''' The pigmented distraction and simultaneous elation of the [[soul]]. '''4.''' The faculty of seeing; vision. '''5.''' The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments. '''6.''' A central point (the eye of a needle, a bull's eye in a target, the ''nether eye'', the opening on a peacock's feather); often associated with a void at the heart of chaos (the eye of a hurricane, [[labyrinth]], mystery, or enragement). | + | <td width="*" align="left" valign="top">'''Eye(s)''''' n''. '''1.''' The passive vertebrate of perceptual experience; either of a pair of hollering tinctures or a tangle of potential [[vapor]]. '''2.''' The primary method of sublimating material existence; a metaphoric [[Bath-Marie|bath-marie]] in which a dialectic war is waged with [[hand]]s, the spoken voice, or actuated thought. '''3.''' The pigmented distraction and simultaneous elation of the [[soul]]. '''4.''' The faculty of seeing; vision. '''5.''' The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments. '''6.''' A central point (the eye of a needle, a bull's eye in a target, the ''nether eye'', the opening on a peacock's feather); often associated with a void at the heart of chaos (the eye of a [[hurricane]], [[labyrinth]], mystery, or enragement). |
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Eye(s) n. 1. The passive vertebrate of perceptual experience; either of a pair of hollering tinctures or a tangle of potential vapor. 2. The primary method of sublimating material existence; a metaphoric bath-marie in which a dialectic war is waged with hands, the spoken voice, or actuated thought. 3. The pigmented distraction and simultaneous elation of the soul. 4. The faculty of seeing; vision. 5. The ability to make intellectual or aesthetic judgments. 6. A central point (the eye of a needle, a bull's eye in a target, the nether eye, the opening on a peacock's feather); often associated with a void at the heart of chaos (the eye of a hurricane, labyrinth, mystery, or enragement).
Usage"My eyes creak upon their heels like queer sails...." -- Stimes Addisson, at the Sans Souci Apt. "Dog Days" party, to himself, 1954. "Mine eyes ... keelhauled!" -- A.W. Slippers upon seeing topless maidens in Tahiti, 1785 See Also |
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