eyed

Etymology

From Middle English eyed, eied, iȝed, y-yȝed, equivalent to eye + -ed.

adj

1. Having eyes.
   The familiar hatchery practice of agitating the eggs after they are eyed, called shocking or addling, ruptures the yolk membranes of the ever-tender sterile eggs. The result is a precipitation of the globulin and a whitening of the egg. 1980, Earl Leitritz, Robert C[onklin] Lewis, Trout and Salmon Culture (Hatchery Methods) [California Fish Bulletin; 164], Oakland, Calif.: University of California Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, page 24
2. Having eye-like spots.
   The back of the beetle was eyed to make it appear to be a snake to a predator.
3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
   Unseen descending weigh my light wings upon balmy flowers, / And court the fair eyed dew to take me to her shining tent. 1789, William Blake, The Book of Thel, II, lines 55-6
   That she had all the abstracted and nervous manner of one who is on the eve of some bold and hazardous step, which it has required no common struggle to resolve upon, would have been obvious to the lynx-eyed Fagin […] 1838, Charles Dickens, chapter 39, in Oliver Twist
   Gray and blue-eyed parents will tend to have either gray-eyed children only or an equal number of gray- and of blue-eyed children according as the gray-eyed parent is homozygous or heterozygous. 1901 November 7, Gertrude C. Davenport and Charles C. Davenport, “Heredity of Eye-color in Man”, in Science, New Series, MacMillan, Volume 26, Number 670, page 592
   Three victims in chains—and one of them, the little servant, the sad-eyed angel. 1960, Elie Wiesel, translated by Stella Rodway, Night, New York: Bantam, published 1986, page 61

verb

1. simple past and past participle of eye