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Definition of Eyeshine
1. Noun. A visible effect of the tapetum lucidum, causing the pupil to appear to glow when a light is shone into the eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Eyeshine
1. a reflection from the eyes of some animals [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Eyeshine
Literary usage of Eyeshine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of Friedrich II. of Prussia, Called Frederick the Great: Called by Thomas Carlyle (1873)
"King soon to follow, as is thought,—' who himself sometimes deigns to take the
Regiments into highest own eyeshine, hochst-eigenen ..."
2. History of Friedrich II, of Prussia: Called Frederick the Great by Thomas Carlyle (1900)
"King soon to follow, as is thought,—' who himself sometimes deigns to take the
Regiments into highest own eyeshine hochst-eigenen ..."
3. The Works of Thomas Carlyle by Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (1897)
"... as is thought,—' who himself sometimes deigns to take the Regiments into
highest own eyeshine hochst-eigenen ..."
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