eyestring
nounEtymology From eye + string.
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Anatomy, Medicine, Sciences In plural, Obsolete One of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.
- Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII:
- I would have broke mine eyestrings, cracked them, but / To look upon him,a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 4: