Meanings
noun
- alternativeAlternative form of eyen: plural of eye.
To vvhat, my loue, ſhall I compare thine eyne? / Chriſtall is muddy.
c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]1 more example
A night as dense as honey, peaceful, dreamy and enticing / Bringing to thine eyne tears of deep emotion / The weary she-parrot slumbers / As does the fading narcissus; […]
2013, Farrukh Ahmad, translated by Yasmin Faruque, “The Celestial Captain”, in The Sailor of the Seven Seas, Trafford Publishing, →ISBN, page 15
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eyne. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eyne
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“eyne.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eyne. Accessed November 3, 2026.
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WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “eyne,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/eyne.
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