Organ+of+sight

  • 61Joseph-Antoine Plateau —     Joseph Antoine Plateau     † Catholic Encyclopedia ► Joseph Antoine Plateau     Belgian physicist, b. at Brussels, 14 Oct., 1801; d. at Ghent, 15 Sept., 1883. His father, a flower painter, wished him to be an artist, and, after his elementary …

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  • 62eye — I. , sb. == awe. RG. 469, 507. AS. ege II. , sb. == organ of sight. RG. 376. AS. eage …

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  • 63eye — noun 1》 the organ of sight in humans or other animals.     ↘a person s attitude or feelings: to European eyes, the city seems overcrowded. 2》 a rounded eye like marking on an animal.     ↘a round, dark spot on a potato from which a new shoot can… …

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  • 64eye — n. the organ of sight: a three layered roughly spherical structure specialized for receiving and responding to light. The outer fibrous coat consists of the sclera and the transparent cornea; the middle vascular layer comprises the choroid,… …

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  • 65eye — ► NOUN 1) the organ of sight in humans and animals. 2) a rounded eye like marking on an animal or bird. 3) a round, dark spot on a potato from which a new shoot grows. 4) the small hole in a needle through which the thread is passed. 5) a small… …

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  • 66eyed — eye ► NOUN 1) the organ of sight in humans and animals. 2) a rounded eye like marking on an animal or bird. 3) a round, dark spot on a potato from which a new shoot grows. 4) the small hole in a needle through which the thread is passed. 5) a… …

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  • 67shell eye — noun : any of numerous pigmented spots in the shell of chitons that are sensitive to light and to disturbances in the water and that sometimes develop a retina * * * shell eye, a primitive organ of sight found on the shells of various univalve… …

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  • 68fish — fishless, adj. /fish/, n., pl. (esp. collectively) fish, (esp. referring to two or more kinds or species) fishes, v. n. 1. any of various cold blooded, aquatic vertebrates, having gills, commonly fins, and typically an elongated body covered with …

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  • 69Fish — /fish/, n. Hamilton, 1808 93, U.S. statesman: secretary of state 1869 77. * * * I Any of more than 24,000 species of cold blooded vertebrates found worldwide in fresh and salt water. Living species range from the primitive lampreys and hagfishes… …

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  • 70Aristotle: Aesthetics and philosophy of mind — David Gallop AESTHETICS Aesthetics, as that field is now understood, does not form the subjectmatter of any single Aristotelian work. No treatise is devoted to such topics as the essential nature of a work of art, the function of art in general,… …

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