Definition of "eye socket" []

• The bony cavity which contains the eyeball and its associated muscles, vessels, and nerves. In humans, seven bones make up each bony orbit: (noun)

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• "He began to rub his cheek against hers, his stubble rasping her skin like sandpaper, pressing her again and again with the smoothness of a scar that ran from his eye socket to his jawbone, all the while panting heavily, grinning obscenely at the carnage on the floor."
• "If Spider had been diagnosed as schizophrenic twenty years before 1968, he might have been treated with an icepick thrust through the eye socket into the brain: transorbital lobotomy."
• "Noching an arrow to her bow, she took careful aim and sent a black shaft slashing through the air to bury itself in the eye socket of a glittering bronze helmet."