[f. EYE sb.1 + LASH.] a. The row or line of hairs fringing the edge of the eye-lid. b. A single hair from the same.
1752. Sir J. Hill, Hist. Anim., 535. Even the eyelashes [of the Simia] are like ours.
1777. Robertson, Hist. Amer. (1783), II. IV. 68. Their … eye-lashes, are of the same hue.
1813. Scott, Rokeby, IV. v. The eye-lash dark, and downcast eye.
1836. Todd, Cycl. Anat., I. 306/2. Few birds … possess eye-lashes.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., II. i. 235. Looking through their fingers or their eyelashes.
1883. Harper’s Mag., Sept., 646/2. She fought him [sleep] to the last eyelash.
Hence Eye-lashed ppl. a., provided with eye-lashes; in quot. transf.
1854. Syd. Dobell, Balder, i. 5. Little window in the wall, Eye-lashed with balmy sprays of honeysuckle.
