Meaning of eye-lash | Babel Free

Definitions

Noun. [B2]

Examples

“Mr. Thomas assured me he has more than once put⟳ his finger upon the cornea itself, which then appeared insensible; but when he touched the eye-lid or eye-lash, she was instantly sensible of it.”

“You will not confound that mal-position of the eye-lash arising from an improper obliquity in its direction, with those cases where the capsule of the cilium is situated at the innermost edge of the tarsal border⟳, or within and beneath the mucous membrane in some other situation (where, when the hair grows it must of necessity project against the eye-ball,) because they will generally require⟳ very different methods of cure;”

“In the twenty minutes that he had been intently watching the stranger, Gordon would have⟳ sworn that the other's face⟳ had not moved by so much as the twitch of an eye-lash.”

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