Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A scleroskeletal ossification in the sclerotic coat of the eyeball of some animals, as birds and reptiles; a sclerotal. See
eyeball and eye.
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November 15, 2008 at 1:57 pm eye-bone is conneks to teh hed-bone!
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At the moment his eyes, almost opaque from the thickness of their blue, were dull under the shadow of the eye-bone.
The Divine Fire May Sinclair 1904
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