Definition of Eyelashes

1. Noun. (plural of eyelash) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Eyelashes

1. eyelash [n] - See also: eyelash

Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyelashes

eyeground
eyegrounds
eyehole
eyeholes
eyehook
eyehooks
eyeing
eyelash
eyelash-curler
eyelash curler
eyelash sign
eyelashed
eyelashes (current term)
eyeless
eyelessly
eyelessness
eyeleted
eyeleteer
eyeleteers
eyelets
eyeletted
eyeletting
eyeliad
eyeliads
eyelid
eyelidded

Literary usage of Eyelashes

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"He was anxious to regain chiefly the eyebrows and eyelashes, as he found his eyes much weakened by the want of them. He was inclined to attribute his ..."

2. The Woman Beautiful: A Practical Treatise on the Development and by Ella Adelia Fletcher (1899)
"THE eyelashes. Who hasn't bumped into the woman who is woefully wandering ... If eyelashes are cut in infancy they will grow longer, but when one gets big ..."

3. Anatomy: Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray, Thomas Pickering Pick (1897)
"The eyelashes (cilia) are attached to the free edges of the eyelids ... Near the attachment of the eyelashes are the openings of a number of glands, ..."

4. Anatomy, Descriptive and Surgical by Henry Gray (1893)
"The eyelashes (cilia) are attached to the free edges of the eyelids ... Near the attachment of the eyelashes are the openings of a number of glands, ..."

5. A Treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Lawrence (1854)
"In this state, or in aggravated cases of tinea, where the eyelashes are ... The latter observation was exemplified in a lady, in whom the eyelashes had ..."

6. The Principles and Practice of Ophthalmic Medicine and Surgery by Thomas Wharton Jones (1863)
"After as many of the eyelashes have been plucked out as are loose enough to yield to the force exerted by means of the finger and thumb, the eyebrows and ..."

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