Eyelash
['aɪlæʃ] or ['aɪ'læʃ]
Definition
(noun.) any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids.
Inputed by Jeff--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.
(n.) A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.
Typed by Gladys
Examples
- She pursued her embroidery carefully and quickly, but her eyelash twinkled, and then it glittered, and then a drop fell. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I see the secret tear drop quietly from her eyelash. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- While obeying my directions, he glanced at me now and then suspiciously from under his frost-white eyelashes. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- She has long eyelashes. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- She looked rosy, happy, half smiling, but her eyelashes were wet. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- The expression of the eye is most correct, but Miss Smith has not those eyebrows and eyelashes. Jane Austen. Emma.
- The crystallized snow was in his eyelashes, in his hair, lying in ridges on his dress. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Though Bessy's eyes were shut, she was listening for some time, for the moisture of tears gathered heavy on her eyelashes. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
Edited by Harold