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Definition of Eyeless
1. Adjective. Lacking eyes or eyelike features. "An eyeless needle"
2. Adjective. Lacking sight. "Blind as an eyeless beggar"
Similar to: Blind, Unsighted
Derivative terms: Eyelessness, Sightlessness
Definition of Eyeless
1. a. Without eyes; blind.
Definition of Eyeless
1. Adjective. Having no eyes (gloss organs of sight). ¹
2. Adjective. Having no sight; blind. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyeless
1. lacking eyes [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeless
Literary usage of Eyeless
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Critique of the Theory of Evolution by Thomas Hunt Morgan, Louis Clark Vanuxem Foundation (1916)
"Mutant race of fruit fly, called eyeless; a, a' normal however, cannot be said
to be eyeless, since many of them show pieces of the eye—indeed the variation ..."
2. Publications by Musical Antiquarian Society (1851)
"But, leaving these, to your judicial spirits I must appeal, and to your wonted
grace, To know from you what eyeless Homer merits, Whom you have power to ..."
3. Irish Literature by Justin McCarthy, Maurice Francis Egan, Douglas Hyde, Charles Welsh, Gregory, James Jeffrey Roche (1904)
"In that battle Bec mac Cua- nach was slain." HARD-GUM, STRONG-HAM, SWIFT-FOOT,
AND THE eyeless LAD. ..."
4. The Journal of Science, and Annals of Astronomy, Biology, Geology by James Samuelson, William Crookes (1883)
"Hitherto most of the experiments upon the action of light upon eyeless and blind
... 201), has raised the question whether, and to what degree, eyeless and ..."
5. Travels in the United States, Etc., During 1849 and 1850 by Emmeline Stuart-Wortley (1851)
"THE eyeless FISH. THE NARROW PATH AND THE FAT ENGLISHMAN. VAST EXTENT OF THE CAVE.
VERSES SUGGESTED BY IT. WE have had a very interesting expedition to the ..."
6. A Concordance to the English Poems of Thomas Gray by Albert Stanburrough Cook, Concordance Society (1908)
"The eyeless Cyclops heav'd the craggy rock; Prop? 46. Rocks. Slaff 19. The pendent
rock, Ixion's whirling wheel, The rocks and nodding groves ..."
7. Proceedings of the Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh by Royal Physical Society of Edinburgh (1863)
"A Series of recently-discovered eyeless Beetles from the Caves of Car- niola and
Hungary were exhibited—By ANDREW MURRAY, Esq. Mr Murray exhibited a fine ..."
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