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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

pl.

Eyes.

[Obs.]

Chaucer.

Spenser.

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Noun.

Plural of eye; – now obsolete, or used only in poetry.

Shak.

With such a plaintive gaze their

eyne

Are fastened upwardly on mine.

Mrs. Browning.

eyen

(dialectal or obsolete) plural of eye
- So mote I brouke wel myne eyen tweye, Saue ye I herde neuere man so synge. — Chaucer, 1390
- While flashing beams do daze his feeble eyen. — Spenser, The Fairie Queen
- 1897, William Morris, “Chapter VII. Birdalone Hath an Adventure in the Wood”, in The Water of the Wondrous Isles (Fantasy), Project Gutenberg, published 2005:
  But well are thine eyen set in thy head, wide apart, well opened, ...