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