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Definition of Give the eye
1. Verb. Look at with a critical eye. "Sam cannot give the eye Sue "; "When the movie star entered, all the women gave him the once over"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Give The Eye
Literary usage of Give the eye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Remarks on Forest Scenery and Other Woodland Views by William Gilpin (1834)
"adjunct of an effect, the beauty of which does not give the eye leisure to attend
to the deformity of the instrument through which the effect is produced. ..."
2. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1912)
"To break the monotony of the thread and to give the eye something to rest upon;
and the same office is performed in the same way by the ornamentation at the ..."
3. A Manual on Diseases of the Eye and Ear: For the Use of Students and by William F. Mittendorf (1881)
"It is not advisable to give the eye with the largest amount of myopia a little
weaker and that of the lower degree a little stronger glass and thus to ..."
4. Indoors and Out: The Homebuilders' Magazine (1905)
"give the eye a chance to rest itself on the blank wall spaces between the pictures.
In many drawing-rooms there is an effect of not being able to see the ..."
5. A Text Book of Physiology by Michael Foster (1893)
"... the other straight pair acting alone would move the eye up and down, while
the oblique muscles acting alone would give the eye an oblique movement. ..."
6. The British and Foreign Medico-chirurgical Review, Or, Quarterly Journal of (1852)
"... or when the patient is unable to give the eye the necessary direction.
Especially is it valuable in the operation of ..."
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