eye
n 1 : an organ of sight : esp : a nearly spherical hollow organ that is lined with a sensitive retina, is lodged in a bony orbit in the skull, is the vertebrate organ of sight, and is normally paired 2 : all the visible structures within and surrounding the orbit and including eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows 3 : the faculty of seeing with eyes eye*less adj eye*like adj
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