subs. (common).—Eyes: spec. large, wide-opened eyes: also SAUCER-EYES.
1599. JOSEPH HALL, Satires, VI. i. Her eyes like silver SAUCERS faire beset.
1636. SUCKLING, The Goblins, iv.
| Pellegrin. Had we no walking fire, | |
| Nor SAUCER-EYED devil of these woods | |
| That led us. |
1655. MASSINGER, A Very Woman, or The Prince of Tarent, ii. 3.
| Upon my conscience, she would see the devil first, | |
| With eyes AS BIG AS SAUCERS; when I but named you. |
1697. VANBRUGH, The Relapse, v. 3. Stare you in the face with huge SAUCER-EYES.
1751. SMOLLETT, Peregrine Pickle, xiii. Damn’d if it was not Davy Jones himself. I know him by his SAUCER-EYES.
1864. MARK LEMON, The Jest Book, 185. I always know when he has been in his cups by the state of his SAUCERS.
