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Definition of Film over
1. Verb. Become glassy; lose clear vision. "Her eyes glazed over from lack of sleep"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Film Over
Literary usage of Film over
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Sesame and Lilies by John Ruskin (1900)
"now had a film over his eyes. Five years ago deceased applied to the parish for
aid. The relieving officer gave him a 4 Ib. loaf, and told him if he came ..."
2. A Dictionary of Spanish Proverbs by John Collins (1823)
"Tuerto y no de nube, no hay maldad que no encubre. " A one-eyed man, who has not
a film over the eye, conceals any sort of villany. ..."
3. The New Sydenham Society's Lexicon of Medicine and the Allied Sciences ...by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society by Henry Power, Leonard William Sedgwick, New Sydenham Society (1882)
"It coagulates into a flocculent mass «hen water is added to it, and in this way
forms a pseudomembranous film over an inflamed eye to wbich water is applied ..."
4. A Compendium of Molesworth's Marathi and English Dictionary by Baba Padmanji, James Thomas Molesworth (1863)
"A dusky film over the eye—the web. 4 Ragged clouds. ^Sï/. A cowrie. 2 The cornea
of the eye. 3 A white spot (as on certain snakes, as arising in the nails, ..."
5. Report of the Bureau of Shell Fisheries by New Jersey, New Jersey Bureau of Shell Fisheries, Bureau of Shellfisheries (1920)
"By spreading a film over the surface of the water and preventing the ...
Laboratory experiments have shown that sufficient oil to form a film over the water ..."
6. American Medicine (1908)
"There is a grayish film over each cornea, thus obscuring the vision. ... Then her
condition seemed to change for the better; the film over the eyes ..."
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