Eye

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EY, EYE, see Ea.

EYE, sb.1 and v. Var. dial. forms and uses in Sc. Irel. and Eng. [ai, ī, oi.] I. sb. Dial. forms. 1. sing. (1) E, (2) Ee, (3) Eie, (4) Oye. [For further examples see II below.] (1) Sc. (Jam. Suppl.) Cum.1 (2) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 158. Cai.1, Nhb.1, Dur.1 Cum. Gl. (1851). Wm. A thowt a wed just oppm t'teea ee, Spec. Dial. (1885) pt. iii. 9. n.Yks.2 n.Yks.3, m.Yks.1, e.Yks.1, w.Yks.1 w.Yks.3, Lan.1, e.Lan.1, Chs.1, nw.Der.1 n.Dev. Cassent zee a sheen in thy reart ee, Exm. Scold. (1746) l. 128. (3) Bnff. Tho' floods o' tears gush frae their eie, Taylor Poems (1787) 13. Edb. Sic sorrow now maun sadden ilka eie, Fergusson Poems (1773) 110, ed. 1785. (4) Ess.1 2. pl. (1) Aies, (2) Een, (3) Ees, (4) Eien, (5) Ein, (6) Ene, (7) Eyen, (8) Eyn, (9) Eyne, (10) Heen, (11) Ieen, (12) In, (13) Uyn, (14) Yees. (1) e.Dev. Yer aies be laike ‘eud-culvers’ aies, Pulman Sng. Sol. (1860) i. 15. (2) Sc. To see motes in ilka other's een if other een see them no, Scott Rob Roy (1817) xxiii. Cai.1, N.I.1, Wxf.1 n.Cy. Grose (1790); N.Cy.1, Nhb.1, Dur.1 e.Dur.1 ‘Aa'll put thee een out!’ Only used in this single expression, and that by old people. Cum. Heedless I glim'd, nor could my een command, Relph Misc. Poems (1743) 4; Cum.1 Wm. Her sawcy een were ticing fools, Hutton Bran New Wark (1785) l. 145. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2 n.Yks.3, ne.Yks.1, e.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 w.Yks. Thoresby Lett. (1703); w.Yks.1 w.Yks.2 w.Yks.4; w.Yks.5 Roaring her een art ommast, 78. Lan.1, e.Lan.1, Chs.1 Chs.3, nw.Der.1, n.Lin.1 (3) n.Yks. He maks me e'es wi' tears te swim, Castillo Poems (1875) 21. e.Yks. His ees was reet blocked up, Nicholson Flk-Sp. (1889) 36; e.Yks.1, n.Lin.1 Dev. White C'yman's Conductor (1701) 136. (4) Bnff. Frae their eien gush'd tears o' bluid, Taylor Poems (1787) 38. (5) Sc. Murray Dial. (1873) 158. Edb. Nature has afore your ein A' things for your impruivement gien, Learmont Poems (1791) 3; The modest glances o' her ein, Fergusson Poems (1773) 107, ed. 1785. Wxf.1 (6) Sc. (Jam.) (7) Sc. (Jam.) Per. Afore ony man I hae e'er clappit me eyen on, Cleland Inchbracken (1883) 76, ed. 1887. Nhb.1 In common use as late as 1824, now scarce. n.Yks. Remmon [sic] thaan eyen frae mah, Robinson Whitby Sng. Sol. (1860) vi. 5; n.Yks.2 m.Yks.1 A refined and seldom used plural. w.Yks. On the evidence of his ‘own eyen,’ Banks Wooers (1880) I. 17. Shr.1 They'n the frummest tatoes as be, an' more'n that, they'n the ebbest eyen. (8) s.Chs.1 56. (9) n.Sc. There's black eyne in Carglen, Gordon Carglen (1891) 200. Fif. Uprose to Maggie's stounded eyne the sprite, Tennant Anster (1812) 10, ed. 1871. Nhb. With her eyne on an ancient book, Richardson Borderer's Table-bk. (1846) VIII. 73. Yks. His feyther's never clapt eyne on him yet, Gaskell Sylvia (1863) I. ii. Lan. His ballad mongering to these eyne alone, Roby Trad. (1872) I. 256. Chs.1, Der.1 Dev. If there mine eyne had not it zeene, Stroud Sng. (c. 1640) st. 4. (10) Lan. Come, dri thi heen, Ailse, Harland Lyrics (1866) 197; The printur meshurt mi wi iz heen, Scholes Tim Gamwattle (1857) 3. (11) Wxf.1 (12) m.Yks.1 On the part of old people, ih'n, i·h'n. w.Yks. Īn, Wright Gram. Wndhll. (1892) 108. (13) w.Som. Uyn... used in this district quite within ‘the memory of the oldest inhabitant,’ Elworthy Gram. (1877) 7. (14) n.Dev. Grose (1790). II. Dial. uses. 1. (a) sing. In comb. (1) Eye-band, a covering placed over the eyes so as to blindfold any one; (2) Eye-bite, obs., to bewitch or charm by the influence of the ‘evil eye’; (3) Eye-bree, (a) the eyebrow; also fig. (b) pl. eye-lashes; (4) Eye-brek crop, the third crop after lea; (5) Eye-brekes, see Eye-bree (b); (6) Eye-bright, (a) the germander speedwell, Veronica Chamaedrys; (b) the plant Euphrasia officinalis; (c) the cat's-eyes, Epilobium angustifolium; (d) the alkanet, Anchusa officinalis; (e) the great starwort, Stellaria Holostea; (7) Eye-bruff, see Eye-bree (a); (8) Eye-clout, a pocket-handkerchief; (9) Eye-feast, (a) a rarity, curiosity; (b) a satisfying glance, a long look; (10) Eye-ful, observant, intent, watchful, careful; (11) Eye-hole, a depression in a potato from which the buds spring; (12) Eye-leet or Eye-light, a bright look or glance; (13) Eye-list or Eye-last, (a) an eyesore, deformity, that which offends the eye; a flaw, fault, offence; (b) a cause of regret; (14) Eye-mote, a dust particle or atom in the eye; used fig.; (15) Eye-piece, (a) that part of a slaughtered pig's head which contains the eye; (b) to scrutinize, observe closely; (16) Eye-proof, ocular demonstration; (17) Eye-sconner, a dark look, glance from an ‘evil eye’; (18) Eye-seeds, a plant whose seeds, if blown into the eye, are said to remove bits of dust, cinders, or insects that may have lodged there; (19) Eye-servant, fig. a screw cheese-press which, if not constantly watched and turned, will not work; (20) Eye-sight, vision, sight; (21) Eye-sore, see Eye-list (a); (22) Eye-stone, a pierced ball of pebble, supposed to heal diseases of the eye; see below; (23) Eye-sweet, pleasing to the eye; also used fig.; (24) Eye-teeth, in phr. (24) to have all one's eye-teeth about one, to be shrewd, capable, wise; (25) Eye-tiller, the top of the handle of a spade; (26) Eye-vang, a strap or stay to which the girth of the saddle is buckled; (27) Eye-warrant, see Eye-proof; (28) Eye-water, (a) an eye-lotion; (b) fig. weak ale or beer; (29) Eye-wet, tears; (30) Eye-wharm, (31) Eye-winker, an eyelash. (1) Lan. Meh hewr war clottert wi' gore, boh t'eebond an t'gog wur gone, Ainsworth Witches (ed. 1849) Introd. iii. (2) n.Cy. (Hall.), w.Yks.1 (3, a) Frf. Heavy shaggy e'ebroos an' a lang moustache, Willock Rosetty Ends (ed. 1889) 113. Per. The gouden hair waved roon her classic e'e bree, Edwards Lyrics (1889) 52. Rnf. Her bonnie e'ebree's a holie arch Cast by nae earthlie han', Rnf. Harp (1819) 161. Ayr. Ye'll ken her by her dark e'ebree, Service Notandums (1890) 88. Lnk. The lane star that hings on the e'ebree o' morn Grew pale, Hamilton Poems (1865) 22. Lth. Twa three-neukit ee-brees aye loupin' wi' glee, Ballantine Poems (1856) 99. Edb. His e'e-bree... became as green as a docken leaf, Moir Mansie Wauch (1828) xxiv. Slk. Down comes a great... eagle... frae about the e'e-bree of the heavens, Hogg Tales (1838) 69, ed. 1866; Let's blacken his ee-brees and gie him mistashes, Chr. North Noctes (ed. 1856) III. 299. Dmf. Her bonnie eebree's a holie arch, Cromek Remains (1810) 12. Nhb.1 w.Yks. Lucas Stud. Nidderdale (c. 1882) Gl. Lan. Mee eebrees... wur dawbt un barckult wi it too, Paul Bobbin Sequel (1819) 19; Lan.1 He's a fause un, aw con tell bi his ee-brees. n.Lan. ∃ man wi' blak ai-brias (W.S.). e.Lan.1, nw.Der.1, s.Wor. (H.K.) (b) N.Cy.2 Wm. Thoo's swing'd o' thi e-breeas off wi' t'can'nle (B.K.). (4) n.Sc. (Jam.) (5) n.Cy. (Hall.) (6, a) Ant., Dwn., ne.Yks., Midl., Shr., w.Som.1 (b) n.Yks., Chs.1, w.Chs., Dev.4 (c) Dev.4 (d, e) w.Som.1 (7) n.Yks.2 (8) w.Yks. Theaze white ee-claats cud tell a fine tale abaht tears if they cud nobbat tawk, Tom Treddlehoyle Bairnsla Ann. (1873) 54. (9, a) Ayr. (Jam.) (b) Rnf., Ayr. (JAM.) (10) n.Yks.2 ‘He's varry eeful ower his brass.’ ‘Be eeful,’ mind what you are about. (11) Chs.1 Skerries is wasty taters, they'n getten sich deep eye-holes. s.Chs.1 (12) ne.Lan. ‘There's nought like sunleet in a woman's face.’ ‘Thaa means eye-leet,’ Mather Idylls (1895) 260. (13, a) Sc. I've outsight and insight and credit, And frae ony eelist I'm free, Chambers Sngs. (1829) II. 604. Fif. Such eyelists and offences... were the occasion of just discontentment to his majesty, Scot Apolog. (1642) 181, ed. 1846. Slg. The second eye-last that appeareth in this denunciation is this, it appeareth to be superfluous, Bruce Sermons (c. 1631) vi. (b) Dmf. (Jam.) (14) n.Yks.2 It isn't worth an ee-mooat. w.Yks. Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Jan. 15, 1893). (15, a) War.2 (b) War.2 Just eyepiece this sewing over, and see if the stitching's done well. (16) n.Yks.2 I had ee-preeaf on't. (17) n.Yks.2 (18) n.Lin.1 [Probably Salvia Verbenaca (B. & H.).] (19) Chs.1 (20) Lnk. Nor mune nor star Blink't on the eesicht near or far, Murdoch Doric Lyre (1873) II. e.Dur.1 Never abbreviated into ‘sight.’ We always ken folk by ‘eyesight.’ (21) N.I.1, Cum.1, n.Yks.2, w.Yks.1 w.Yks.4 Ken.1 A dissight; a detriment. ‘A sickly wife is a great eyesore to a man.’ (22) ne.Sc. A small perforated ball made of Scotch pebble which has been in the possession of the present family for at least six generations has the virtue of curing diseases of the eye. It goes by the name of the Eestehn, and is thought to contain all the colours of the eye. It must on no account be allowed to fall to the ground. When put into a mixture of milk and water a lotion is formed capable of curing every kind of disease of the eye, Gregor Flk-Lore (1881) 39. (23) Sc. It is not so soon made eye-sweet for Christ, Rutherford Lett. (1660) No. 178 (Jam.). n.Wm. Trim t'dike an' mak thi job eye-sweet (B.K.). (24) w.Wor. He seems to have all his eye-teeth about him, S. Beauchamp Grantley Grange (1874) I. 169. (25) Suf. Rainbird Agric. (1819) 294, ed. 1849. (26) Dev. Horae Subsecivae (1777) 146. (27) n.Yks.2 (28, a) Ayr. A flask of eye-water which she had herself distilled, Galt Gilhaize (1823) ix. (b) Lan. Brierley Waverlow (1884) 89. (29) Lan. A sympathisin hanketcherful ov e'e-weet, Clegg Sketches (1895) 376. (30) Sh.I. (Jam.), Sh.&Ork.1 (31) Sc. (Jam.) [Amer. I would prefer a Pitman without an eye-winker, or fuzz enough on him to make a camel's-hair pencil, Adeler Hurly-Burly (1878) xix.] (b) pl. (1) Een-bright, bright to the eyes, shining, luminous; (2) Een-holes, the sockets of the eyes; (3) Een-nointment, eye-salve or ointment. (1) Slk. Standing thick o' eenbright beaming drops like morning dew, Hogg Perils of Man (1822) II. 90. (2) Lnk. In their een-holes shin'd a licht That glinted thro' the gloom o' nicht, Thomson Musings (1881) 63. n.Yks.1 n.Yks.2, ne.Yks.1, m.Yks.1 (3) n.Yks.2 2. phr. (1) the Eye of Christ, the germander speedwell, Veronica Chamaedrys; (2) Eye of the day, noon, midday; (3) Eye of the needle, a name given to a tree which has a double trunk united; (4) Eye of summer, the middle of summer, midsummer; (5) ae or tae ee or eye, a darling, apple of the eye; (6) an eye! an exclamation; (7) what an eye! what a view! what a vista! (8) a clear eye, a clear road or passage; (9) a flowing eye, a mark, spot, or hole in a drinking-vessel, beyond which it could not be filled; (10) a light eye, a break in the clouds; (11) black is the eye or black is the white of the eye, see below; (12) within half an eye, almost right, not quite exact; (13) to have one's eye on, to approve of; (14) to judge by the rack of the eye, to measure anything with the eye; (15) to please the eye if it plagues one's heart, see below; (16) to put anything in the eye and yet see no worse for it, said of anything very small and insignificant; (17) to put out the eye, to get the advantage of; (18) to put an eye into drink of any kind, to put a small quantity of spirit into drink; (19) eyes and limbs, used constantly in imprecations; hence to eye and limb any one, to anathematize the eyes and limbs; (20) to bang among the eyes, to hit between the eyes; (21) to have the eyes in the mirligoes, to see things indistinctly or blurred; to imagine one sees something which is not there; (22) to have eyes like two burnt holes in a blanket, said in derision; (23) to see between the eyes, to set eyes on, see; (24) to wet both eyes, to take two glasses of wine, spirits, &c. (1) Wal. Welsh names of flowers are often pretty... Germander Speedwell has won for it the appellation of the Eye of Christ, Monthly Pkt. (Dec. 1863) 683. (2) Sc. How daur ye come at the ee o' day, To tread the fairy lea? Edb. Mag. (Oct. 1818) 327 (Jam.); An' ay we flew... In the glowan ee o' day, Edb. Mag. (July 1819) 526. Fif. It was the vera ee o' the day, what time the carefu' kimmers keek aneath the kail pat's lid to sey The boilin' o' the beef, Tennant Papistry (1827) 75. (3) Ker. In the island of Innisfallen, Killarney, is a tree called the eye of the needle. The name was given to the tree owing to its double trunk uniting, Black Flk-Medicine (1883) iv. (4) Sh.I. Dark! Man, doo's doitin'. As fir dark i' da e'e o' simmer, Sh. News (July 23, 1898). (5) Abd. (Jam.) Rnf. My lad was my mither's tae e'e, Neilson Poems (1877) 59. (6) Cor. Dancing... in an out... the now low burning tar-barrels, crying out, ‘An eye, an eye,’ Flk-Lore Jrn. (1886) IV. 236. (7) n.Yks.2 (8) n.Yks.1; n.Yks.2 ‘Go in when there is a clear eye,’ no crowd, but a ready dispatch. (9) Ayr. He took the glass from the dragoon's hand and held it to his wife, who again filled it to the flowing eye, Galt Gilhaize (1823) xxvi. (10) Hmp. (J.R.W.), Hmp.1 (11) Sc. No man should be a minister o' a parish if the folk jist say they'll no ha'e him, wi'oot gien rhyme or reason,.. wi'oot sayin' black's e'e or ought against him, Crack aboot Kirk (1843) 3. Per. I'll no say black's yer e'e [I'll say nothing] (G.W.). Dmb. Wad ye offer for to go for to insinuate onything against my character?.. I defy you to say black is the white o' my e'e, Cross Disruption (1844) xix. n.Cy. There is a vulgar saying in the North,.. ‘No one can say black is your eye,’ meaning that nobody can justly speak ill of you, Brand Pop. Antiq. (ed. 1813) II. 399. w.Yks.1 (12) n.Yks.2 ‘It's right within half an eye,’ that is, a little further observation would have hit the point exactly. (13) Sur. N. & Q. (1874) 5th S. i. 361; Sur.1 (s.v. Have). (14) w.Yks. He judged bi t'rack ov his ee wo'd be twelve feet high, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Jan. 15, 1893). (15) Oxf.1 A saying often used by young men who greatly admire beauty and yet are conscious that a pretty girl is not necessarily constant or wise, MS. add. (16) e.Yks.1 Aa cuod puot it i mi ee an see na' waas for't (Miss A.). w.Yks.1 Of a miser it is common to say, ‘You may put what he will give you in your ee, and see naa warse for't.’ (17) Lnk. A sailor's dear she'd been, But while he was at sea, Wee Mungo, who cam' on the scene, Put oot the sailor's e'e, Orr Laigh Flichts (1882) 30. (18) n.Lin.1 ‘It'll do... very well when I've just put an eye into it,’ and he took a flat bottle from his waistcoat pocket and poured the eye into his cup, M. Heron (1872) III. 13. (19) Sus.1 He eyed and limbed me. w.Som.1 Uy·z-n lúmz. (20) ne.Yks.1 Bang her amang her een. w.Yks.3 Chs.3 ‘Bang her amang her e'en,’ cried one drover to another driving a refractory or terrified cow. (21) s.Sc. Can it be you, Mary, or is my een in the mirligoes? Wilson Tales (1839) V. 308. (22) N.I.1 (23) Sc. I wish I had never seen them between the een, Scott Leg. Mont. (1818) iv. (24) Nhp.1 ‘Come, wet both eyes,’ is a common country invitation to take a second glass. 3. An orifice or opening in var. instruments, &c., esp. an opening or passage, from which water, &c., issues, or for the introduction or withdrawal of material; see below. Abd. He's trampet out the e'e O' mony dub, Keith Farmer's Ha' (1774) st. 25. n.Cy. Aspout (Hall.); N.Cy.1 The mill-ee. Nhb.1 Ee is also applied to an orifice, such as the hole in a pick or hammer, or a grindstone. The mill-ee, the orifice in the casing of millstones where the flour is conveyed into the spout; or the channel hole by which water passes on to the wheel of a water mill. ‘The mousey she cam to the mill ee,’ Nhb. Rhyme. Well-ee, the mouth of a well. Kiln-ee, the orifice in a lime kiln from which the lime is drawn. n.Yks.1 T'meeal fa's ower het fra t'mill-ee. Chs.1 A small cesspool built at the mouth of a drain to catch the sediment or wreck, which would otherwise choke up the drain. e.An. An outlet for water from a drain (Hall.). 4. Mining term: an opening into a shaft. Ayr. Laird Colville had opened twa new pits... There was an ingaun e'e at the Goldcraig, and so mony wild Eerish cam aboot the toon to work, Service Dr. Duguid (ed. 1887) 168. w.Yks. The top of a pit shaft is called the mouth, the bottom the eye, Leeds Merc. Suppl. (Feb. 25, 1893). [Opening into a shaft either at bottom or part way up, Reports Mines; The mouth or top of the shaft in coal mines (K.).] Hence Eye pillars, phr. coal left to support the shaft at a pit's ‘eye.’ w.Yks. (T.T.) 5. pl. Rabbit-holes, gen. in comb. Rabbit-eyes. Nrf. They say these birds [coney-suckers] enter the ‘rabbit eyes’ in the dunes and suck the milch-does, Emerson Birds (ed. 1895) 14; If a mouse-hunter gets into a sandpit full of rabbits' eyes, EMERSON Birds 349. [In warrens they trap rabbits at the mouths of the eyes, Mayer Sptsman's Direct. (1845) 114.] 6. A hole or hollow seen in bread or in badly-made cheese. Gen. in pl. Chs.1 Farm servants, when not satisfied with the food that is given to them, are accustomed to say ─ ‘Brown bread and mahley pies, Twiggen Dick full o' eyes, Buttermilk instead o' beer; So I'll be hanged if I stay here’; Chs.3, s.Chs.1, War.2 War.3 Shr.1 I like... bread full of eyes, cheese without any, an' ale as 'll make yore eyes star' out o' yore 'ead. Hrt. You may expect it to be full of holes and eyes, Ellis Mod. Husb. (1750) III. i. 7. pl. Holes made in the sand by cockles. Lan. The fish [cockle] is buried about an inch below the surface, and its place is known by two little holes in the sand called ‘eyes,’ Waugh Rambles in Lake Cy. (1861) 76. 8. The cavity beneath the arch of a bridge. s.Wil. (G.E.D.) Som. (W.F.R.); W. & J. Gl. (1873). 9. The centre of a wheel. w.Som.1 The wheel was a-tord limbless, there wadn on'y the eye o' un a-left. 10. pl. Spectacles, eye-glasses. e.An.1, Nrf. (E.M.), e.Suf. (F.H.) 11. Fig. A regard, liking; a desire, craving. Sc. A kindly ee, a lang ee, a constant ee (Jam. Suppl.). 12. v. To look at closely or minutely; to perceive, discern. n.Yks.2 ‘I was gleg at eeing on't,’ quick in perceiving it. w.Yks. (J.W.) Ess. Gl. (1851); Where toddlers ollis haut to eye The proper pritty wiew, Clark J. Noakes (1839) st. I; At length, our pair... Wor so nigh home,.. Ov loight they eyed a shimmer, CLARK J. Noakes st. 178. Som. They are coming... I thought they might when I eyed them out in street, Raymond Tryphena (1895) 13. 13. To glance at or over. s.Wor.1 Her on'y eyed the letter, and giv'd it me back. Hrf.2 Her only eyed the letter. Glo.1 Oxf.1 MS. add. 14. To regard with ill-will. s.Wor.1 15. To love, respect. n.Cy. (Hall.) 16. Fig. Of liquids: to ooze, well up. Bnff.1 The water's eein' out at that holie. [II. 1. (a) (2) Our English people in Ireland were much given to this idolatry in the Queen's time, insomuch that there being a disease in that country they did commonly execute people for it, calling them eye-biting witches, Ady Candle in the Dark (1656) 104; The Irishmen... affirme, that not onelie their children, but their cattle are... eye-bitten when they fall suddenlie sicke, Scott Discovery Witchcr. (1584) III. xv. 50; see Brand Pop. Antiq. (ed. 1813) II. 401; COTGR. (s.v. Ensorceler).]

EYE, sb.2 Chs. Der. Lin. Glo. Brks. e.An. Som. [ai.] A brood of pheasants. Chs.1 Chs.3, Der.2, nw.Der.1, n.Lin.1 Glo.1 ‘I never got an eye,’ used of a hen which has failed to hatch a sitting of eggs; Glo.2, Brks.1, e.An.1 w.Som.1 I zeed a fine eye o' pheasants, z'mornin. [When you have found an eye of pheasants, Worlidge Dict. Rust. (1681); Mayer Sptsman's Direct. (1845) 77.]Eye [of pheasants], the whole brood of young ones, the same as covey in partridges, Coles (1677); so E. K. Gloss. Spenser's Kal. (1579) Apr. 118.]

EYE, see Aye, adv.2

EYE, sb. Sc. Irel. Lakel. Nrf. Dev. Also in forms e'e, e'ea Lakel.2 1. In comb. (1) Eye-ful, in phr. to take an eyeful out of, to give a comprehensive or searching glance; (2) Eye-strings, eyelids; (3) Eye-water, lotion for the eyes; (4) Eyes-ful, all one can see. (1) Don. She took an eyeful out of Jack, an' right well plaised she was with his appearance, Macmanus Chim. Corners (1899) 248. (2) Sh.I. A'm no firgat... in [and] niver will, as lang as me e'e strings is open, Sh. News (Aug. 10, 1901). (3) Nrf. Emerson Wild Life (1890) 53. (4) n.Dev. Craned forward, curious as village folk, to see their eyes-ful, Zack Dunstable Weir (1901) 177. 2. Phr. a drap or drappie in the eye, a small amount of drink, not sufficient to make one intoxicated. Sh.I. Da drappie in my ee Maks rims aboot da collie [lamp], Stewart Tales (1892) 84. Ayr. Laing Poems (1894) 107. 3. The arch of a bridge; the outlet of a lime-kiln; an opening in a wall, &c. Cf. ea. Cum. Also used by miners in reference to the entrance to the coalpit.‘ It was i' t'boddom eye at t'park’ (E.W.P.). Lakel.2