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Definition of Glass eye
1. Noun. Prosthesis consisting of an artificial eye made of glass.
Definition of Glass eye
1. Noun. An artificial eye, not necessarily made from glass, intended to replace a missing eye. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Literary usage of Glass eye
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Transactions by Cambridge Philosophical Society (1830)
"With the old three-glass eye-piece we have found that at a given ... In the
four-glass eye-piece, the confusion is not by any means so great as if a single ..."
2. The Annual of Scientific Discovery, Or, Year-book of Facts in Science and Art by David Ames Wells, Charles Robert Cross, John Trowbridge, Samuel Kneeland, George Bliss (1852)
"glass eye-protector' which had been used with similar results. A small portion
of the surface of the glass, and to a slight depth below it, ..."
3. A Practical treatise on the diseases of the eye by William Mackenzie, Thomas Wharton Jones (1855)
"The protrusion of a portion of iris, or a staphyloma racemosum, sometimes renders
the wearing of a glass eye impossible, from the pain which is produced, ..."
4. Interesting Anecdotes, Memoirs, Allegories, Essays, and Poetical Fragments by Addison (1797)
"... and excited her alarms, was only an innocent glass eye, and therefore could
not convey any improper information, as it was immoveable all day, ..."
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