2. Verb. (third-person singular of eyeball) ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyeballs
1. eyeball [v] - See also: eyeball
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeballs
Literary usage of Eyeballs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Physiology by William Dobinson Halliburton (1913)
"MOVEMENTS OF THE EYEBALL Protrusion of the eyeballs occurs (1) when the blood-vessels
of the orbit are congested; (2) when contraction of the plain muscular ..."
2. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1902)
"Paralysis of the Facial and Paralysis of the Lateral Associated Movements of the
eyeballs of the Same Side, with the Electrical Reactions of the Affected ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1897)
"The man could not raise his eyeballs above the horizontal plane in attempting
upward rotation, and in doing this one or the other eyeball tended to move ..."
4. The Iliad of Homer by Homer, John Graham Cordery (1871)
"... white the bones Scatter'd, and all the teeth came shatter'd forth ; His eyeballs
fill'd with blood ; for breath he gasp'd Through nostrils and through ..."
5. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"Examination of the form and appearance of the eyeballs generally, their size and
degree of ... The eyeballs, otherwise healthy, may be unusually prominent, ..."
6. A Manual of Physiology by Gerald Francis Yeo (1890)
"One of the most important means employed to enable us to form accurate visual
perceptions is the varied motion which the eyeballs are capable of performing. ..."
7. Homœopathic Therapeutics by Samuel Lilienthal (1890)
"Aching in eyeballs, which feel too large (Spig.); lids feel so heavy, can hardly
lift them ; intense itching of inner canthi and edges of lids, ..."
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