Meanings
een1
- Northern EnglandScotlandarchaicpluralplural of eye
And eke with fatnesse swollen were his eyne
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 211 more example
But the sight of her eyes was not a thing to forget. John Dodds said they were the een of a deer with the Devil ahint them; and indeed, they would so appal an onlooker that a sudden unreasoning terror came into his heart, while his feet would impel him to flight.
1902, John Buchan, The Outgoing of the Tide
een2
- Northern Englanddialectalnot comparableeven.
een3
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een. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/een
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