n. The organ of vision; the physiological mechanism of the sense of sight; an anatomical arrangement of parts by which optical images may be formed; in general, any part of an animal body by means of which the faculty of vision is exercised, or the impact of the light-rays is sensed as a visual impression or optical image.n. In a restricted or specific use, some part or appurtenance of the physical eye, taken as representing the whole.n. Figuratively Vision; the act of seeing, or the field of sight; hence, observation; watch.n. The power of seeing; range or delicacy of vision; appreciative or discriminative visual perception: as, to have the eye of a sailor; he has an eye for color, the picturesque, etc.n. Mental view or perception; power of mental perception; opinion formed by observation or contemplation.n. Look; countenance; aspect; face; presence.n. Regard; respect; view; close attention; aim.n. Opposed aspect or course; confronting presentation or direction: chiefly or wholly nautical: as, to steer a ship in the sun's eye; to sail in the wind's eye.n. Something resembling or suggesting an eye in shape, position, or general appearance.n. One of the spots on a peacock's tail.n. The muscular impression on the inner side of the shell of a bivalve, as an oyster. See ciborium.n. The hole or aperture in a needle through which the thread passes.n. The hole in any instrument or tool in which a handle or the like is secured, or through which it is passed, as that for the handle in a hammer-head, that for the helve in an ax, that for the ring in the shank of an anchor, etc.n. The hole of a millstone through which the grain passes.n. In metallurgy, an opening at the angle of the tuyere, or where the tuyere connects with the gooseneck, in a blast-furnace, through which the state of the interior may be examined. This opening, which is protected by a plate of glass or mica, is called the eye of the furnace.n. The catch of bent wire into which a hook (forming with it a hook and eye) is inserted.n. An eyebolt.n. Nautical, the loop at the upper end of a backstay or pair of shrouds which goes over the masthead of a ship.n. The metal loop at the end of a harness-trace.n. In archery, the loop of a bowstring which passes over the upper nock in bracing.n. The socket at the end of a carriage-pole or shaft.n. The center of a wheel or crank, designed to receive the shaft or axle.n. The center of a target.n. In architecture, a general term for the distinctly marked center of anything: thus, the eye of a volute is the circle at its center from which the spiral lines spring; the eye of a dome is a circular aperture at its apex; the eye of a pediment is a circular window in its center.n. A center or focus of light, power, or influence: as, the sun is the eye of day.n. A slight or just distinguishable tint of a color; tinge; shade.n. In Crustacea, a calcareous concretion embedded in the walls of the stomach.n. An eye whose lids and surrounding parts are livid or discolored, as by a blow or bruise.n. Figuratively, defeat; repulse; injury; disgrace or disfavor; hence, a shock, as if from a blow on the eye: as, that scheme got a black eye in the committee; I will give him a black eye in print.n. To take the conceit out of a person; show one how foolish one is: as, to wipe one's eye for him.To fix the eye on; look at; view; observe; particularly, to observe or watch narrowly or with fixed attention.To make an eye in: as, to eye a needle.To be seen; appear; have an appearance.n. A brood: as, an eye or a shoal of fish.n. n. In some echinoids, a minute pigmented nodule, probably without visual functions, situated at the end of an ambulacrum.n. In photography, the spectral range of wave-lengths to which a photographic plate or film is sensitiven. In chitons, one of the numerous pigmented spots scattered either irregularly or symmetrically over the outer surface of the exposed area of the shell. “Same as shell-eye.