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chance. To keep constantly in view the profit to arise; to act from motives of policy. (See Main Chance.)
   To see eye to eye. To be of precisely the same opinion; to think both alike.

Eye - service Superficial service. "Service qu'on rend sous les yeux du maître."

"Servants, be obedient to them that are your masters ...; not with eye-service, as men pleasers; but as the servants of Christ." - Eph. vi. 5, 6.

Eye-sore Something that is offensive to the sight. Sore is the Anglo-Saxon sar (painful) or swær (grievous). It is painful or grievous to the eye.

"Mordecai was an eye-sore to Haman." -
D'Estrange.

Eye-teeth The canine teeth are so called because their fangs extend upwards nearly to the orbits of the eyes.
   To draw one's eye-teeth. To take the conceit out of a person; to fleece one without mercy; to make one suffer loss without seeing the manoeuvre by which it was effected.

"I guess these Yanks will get their eye-teeth drawn if they don't look sharp." - W. Hepworth Dixon: New America, vol. i.

Eye of a Needle Lady Duff Gordon, writing from Cairo, says: "Yesterday I saw a camel go through the eye of a needle - i.e. a low arched door of an enclosure. He must kneel and bow his head to go through, and thus the rich man must humble himself" (Wood: Bible Animals, p. 243). Lord Nugent, in his Travels, informs us that when at Hebron he was directed to go out by the Needle's Eye, or small gate of the city.

Eye of Greece (The). Athens.

"Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts."
Milton: Paradise Regained, book iv. 240.

Eye of the Baltic (The). Gottland, in the Baltic.

Eye of the Storm An opening between the storm clouds. (See Bull's Eye .)

Eyes
   The Almond Eyes. The Chinese.

"He will not receive a very warm welcome from the Almond Eyes." - F. Millar: On the Central Saints' Rest (1891).

   Eyes to the blind. A staff. So called in allusion to the staff given to Tiresias by Athena, to serve him for the eyes of which she had deprived him. (See Tiresias.)
   To cast sheep's eyes at one. To look askant with shyness or diffidence.
   To make eyes at one. To look wantonly at a person; to look lovingly at another.
   To rent the eyes with paint (Jer. iv. 30). The ladies of the East tinge the edge of their eyelids with the powder of lead-ore. They dip into the powder a small wooden bodkin, which they draw "through the eyelids over the ball of the eye." Jezebel is said "to have adjusted her eyes with kohol" (a powder of lead-ore), 2 Kings ix. 30. N.B. - The word "face" in our translation should in both these cases be rendered "eyes." (Shaw: Travels.)
   Your eyes are bigger than your stomach. You fancied you could eat more, but found your appetite satisfied with less than you expected. "Oculi plus devorbant quam capit venter."

Eyed
   One-eyed people. (See Arimaspians, Cyclops.)

Eyre Justices in Eyre. A corruption of "Justices in itinere." At first they made the circuit of the kingdom every seven years, but Magna Charta provided that it should be done annually.

Eyre (Jane). The heroine of Charlotte Bronte's novel so called. Jane Eyre is a governess, who stoutly copes with adverse circumstances, and ultimately wins the love of a man of fortune. (`Eyre' pronounce air.)

Ezour Veda or Yajûr Veda. The second of the sacred books of the Hindûs. The four are: -
   (1) The Rig Veda (prayers and hymns in verse);
   (2) The Ezour Veda (prayers in prose);
   (3) The Sama' (prayers to be chanted); and
   (4) The Atharvan Veda (formulas of consecration, imprecation, expiation, etc.).

Ezzelin (3 syl.). Sir Ezzelin recognised count Lara at the table of Lord Otho, and charged him with being Conrad the corsair. A duel was arranged, and Ezzelin was never heard of more. A serf used to tell