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eyestring en · NOUN

Etymology

From eye + string.

Meanings

1. (in-plural, obsolete) One of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.
   • Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye 1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII:
   • I would have broke mine eyestrings, cracked them, but / To look upon him, a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 4:

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