Obs. [Used erroneously for NYE, neye; a neye = an eye. Cf. ADDER, EYAS, etc.] A brood (of pheasants).
c. 1430. Bk. Hawkyng, in Rel. Ant., I. 296. I have founde a covey of pertrich … and eye of fesaunts.
1579. E. K., Gloss. Spenser’s Sheph. Cal., April, 118.
1669. Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 252. When you have found an Eye of Pheasants … place your Nets hollow, loose, and circular-wise.
1725. in Bradley, Fam. Dict., s.v. Pheasant.
