eight eyes

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• twenty-eight

  n. another name for the Yellow-collared Parrakeet. Named from its note.See Parrakeet. 1848. J. Gou...

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• Nine-eyes

  ·noun The <<Lamprey>>. ...

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• glass eyes

  A nick name for one wearing spectacles. ...

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• cat's eyes

  n. Not the true Cat's-eye,but the name given in Australia to the opercula of Turbosmaragdus, Martyn...

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• bull's eyes

  n. A coarse sweetmeat mixed with flour, and streaked various colors, greedily devoured by children.-...

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• lashing-eyes

  Fittings for lower stays, block-strops, &c., by loops made in the ends of ropes, for a lashing to be...

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• thimble-eyes

  Are thimble-shaped apertures in iron-plates where sheaves are not required; frequently used instead ...

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• figure of eight

  A knot made by passing the end of a rope over and round the standing part, up over its own part, and...

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• piece of eight

  The early name for the coin of the value of 8 reals, the well-known Spanish dollar. ...

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• blind-your-eyes

  n. another name for the Milky Mangrove. See mangrove. ♣ ~, doing the v. lounging in thefashionabl...

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• eyes of her

  The foremost part of the bay, or in the bows of a ship. In olden times, and now in Spanish and Itali...

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• six and eight-pence

  An attorney, whose fee on several occasions is fixed at that sum. ...

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• Covering of the eyes

  Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is "it (i.e., Abimelech's present of...

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• eyes of a messenger

  Eyes spliced in its ends to lash together. ...

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• eyes of a ship

  (See eyes of her.) ...

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• squaring the dead-eyes

  Bringing them to a line parallel to the sheer of the ship. ...

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