eyed

English Online Dictionary. What means eyed‎? What does eyed mean?

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /aɪd/
• Homophone: I'd
• Rhymes: -aɪd

Adjective

eyed (not comparable)

1. Having eyes.
2. Having eye-like spots.

3. (in compounds) Having the specified kind or number of eyes.
   • 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:

     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.

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Verb

eyed

1. simple past and past participle of eye

Anagrams

• yede, yeed

Middle English

Alternative forms

• iȝed, yhed, eiȝede, y-yȝed, eied

Etymology

From eie +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɛi̯id/, /ˈiːid/, /ˈɛi̯ɛd/, /ˈiːɛd/

Adjective

eyed

1. eyed; having (a certain type of) eye.
2. (of cheese, rare) Having holes.

Descendants

• English: eyed

References

• “eied, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-12-22.