Definition of "eye" []

• An organ of vision or of light sensitivity. (noun)
• Either of a pair of hollow structures located in bony sockets of the skull, functioning together or independently, each having a lens capable of focusing incident light on an internal photosensitive retina from which nerve impulses are sent to the brain; the vertebrate organ of vision. (noun)
• The external, visible portion of this organ together with its associated structures, especially the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows. (noun)
• The pigmented iris of this organ. (noun)
• The faculty of seeing; vision. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "If 'and-éges' be accepted, the sentence will read: _No hero ... dared look upon her, eye to eye_."
• "I looked round, and the baboon caught my eye, which told him plainly that he'd soon catch what was not at all _my eye_; and he proved that he actually thought so, for he at once put the bread-and-butter back into the boy's hands!"
• ""If a man sell a horse which is lame, no action lyes for that, but _caveat emptor_; and when I sell a horse that has _no_ eye, there no action lies; otherwise where he has a counterfeit, false, and _bright eye_.""