eyed
/aɪd/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: 3.96 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
4
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
simple past and past participle of eye
Example Sentences
- "The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg."
- "The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator."
- "What mean you, sir, / To give them this discomfort? Look, they weep; / And I, an ass, am onion-eyed: for shame, / Transform us not to women."
- "Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent."
- "That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […]"
- "Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous."