1. Furnished with eyes.
c. 1374. Chaucer, Troylus, IV. 1459. Youre father is in sleighte as Argus eyed.
c. 1430. Lydg., Bochas, Prol. (1544), 54. A prince … Eyed as a tigre with reason and foresight.
1553. Eden, Treat. Newe Ind. (Arb.), 15. An Elephant … is … eyed lyke a swine.
1579. Spenser, Sheph. Cal., Sept., 203. For Roffy is wise, and as Argus eyed.
1643. Prynne, Sov. Power Parl., App. 154. He who even now seemed eyed, eared, strong and flourishing; will suddenly wax blind, deafe, and fall to nothing.
1832. Tennyson, Œnone, 196. A wild and wanton pard, Eyed like the evening star.
fig. 1869. R. Lytton, Orval, 117. The eyed air Sees not.
† c. Gifted with sight, clear-sighted, sharp-sighted. Also fig. Wide awake to. Obs.
1584. T. Bastard, Chrestoleros (1880), 82. Men … Eyde to their profit, but blinde to their paine.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 7. They were both so watchfull and well eyde, That [etc.].
1618. Rowlands, Sacred Mem., 45. Borne blind they knew … And most miraculous, now perfect ey’d.
1632. J. Hayward, trans. Biondi’s Eromena, 87. A god, though blinde, yet eyed sufficiently to spie out two spirits.
2. Furnished with an eye. Cf. EYE 20, 21.
1804. Abernethy, Surg. Obs., 215. By means of an eyed probe two ligatures were conveyed round the vessel.
1886. Academy, 22 May, 358/2. Mr. Hall invented eyed-hooks [in fly-fishing].
3. Marked or ornamented as with eyes; dappled, spotted. Eyed Hawk-Moth (Smerinthus Ocellatus): a moth of the family Sphingidæ.
1815. Shelley, Alastor, 450. Soft mossy lawns … eyed with blooms.
1821. Keats, Lamia, 50. Eyed like a peacock.
1825. Berry, Encycl. Herald., I., Eyed … a term used in speaking of the variegated spots in the peacock’s tail.
1843. Westwood, Brit. Moths, I. 7. Smerinthus Ocellatus. The Eyed Hawk-Moth.
1878. Browning, Poets Croisic, 53. That which perks and preens The eyed wing.
1889. in Elvin, Dict. Heraldry.
