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Definition of Eyelike

1. Adjective. Suggesting an eye or eyes. "The eyelike gleam of two distant windows in the dark"

Definition of Eyelike

1. Adjective. Resembling an eye. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eyelike

1. resembling an eye [adj] - See also: eye

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyelike

Literary usage of Eyelike

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. How to Know the Butterflies: A Manual of the Butterflies of the Eastern by John Henry Comstock, Anna Botsford Comstock (1904)
"... of the fore wings is not brown and eyelike. Expanse of wing» two to three inches. The species is dimorphic ; the dimorphism affects both sexes and is ..."

2. The Universal Anthology: A Collection of the Best Literature, Ancient by Léon Vallée, Richard Garnett, Alois Brandl (1899)
"... bleak walls — upon the vacant eyelike windows — upon a few rank sedges — and upon a few white trunks of decayed trees — with an utter depression of soul ..."

3. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Richard Garnett, Leon Vallée, Alois Brandl, Donald Grant Mitchell (1899)
"I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain—upon the bleak walls—upen the vacant eyelike ..."

4. The International Library of Famous Literature: Selections from the World's by Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell, Nathan Haskell Dole, Forrest Morgan, Caroline Ticknor (1898)
"I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant eyelike ..."

5. Rhetoric and English Composition by George Rice Carpenter (1907)
"I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant, eyelike ..."

6. Bulletin of the University of Montana by Mont University of Montana (Missoula, University of Montana (Missoula, Mont.) (1903)
"The family includes chiefly brown butterflies whose markings consist almost entirely of eyelike spots. Some of the western species are brightly colored. ..."

7. Foundation English: The Expression of Ideas by Alice B. Macdonald (1911)
"I looked upon the scene before me — upon the mere house, and the simple landscape features of the domain — upon the bleak walls — upon the vacant, eyelike ..."

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