after-eye

verb

To keep in view or sight.

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Meanings

verbafter-eye (third-person singular simple present after-eyes, present participle after-eyeing or (rare) after-eying, simple past and past participle after-eyed)

present singular third person after-eyes · participle present after-eyeing · participle present rare after-eying · participle past after-eyed · past after-eyed

  1. obsoletetransitiveTo keep in view or sight.

    Thou shouldst have made him As little as a crow, or less, ere left To after-eye him.

    1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]

Origin

From after- + eye.

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