Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various small greenish birds of the genus Zosterops of Africa, southern Asia, and the Pacific islands, having a narrow ring of white feathers around the eye.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In Great Britain, the white-eyed duck, Nyroca ferruginea or N. leucophthalma. See cut under
Nyroca . - noun In the United States, the white-eyed vireo or greenlet, Vireo noveboracensis. See cut under
Vireo . - noun Any bird of the genus Zosterops; a silver-eye: as, the Indian white-eye, Z. palpebrosus. See cut under
Zosterops . - noun Same as
wall-eyed pike (which. see, under pike).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small Old World singing of the genus Zosterops, as
Zosterops palpebrosus of India, andZosterops cœrulescens of Australia. The eyes are encircled by a ring of white feathers, whence the name. Called alsobush creeper , andwhite-eyed tit .
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Examples
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The Twilight Herald: Lord Bahl is dead and the young white-eye, Isak, stands in his place; less than a year after being plucked from obscurity and poverty the charismatic new Lord of the Farlan finds himself unprepared to deal with the attempt on his life that now spells war, and the possibility of rebellion waiting for him at home.
Archive 2009-02-01 Lou Anders 2009
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The Twilight Herald: Lord Bahl is dead and the young white-eye, Isak, stands in his place; less than a year after being plucked from obscurity and poverty the charismatic new Lord of the Farlan finds himself unprepared to deal with the attempt on his life that now spells war, and the possibility of rebellion waiting for him at home.
Two New Fantasy Novels Unleashed! Lou Anders 2009
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I can close my eyes and hear them tinkling yet, sixty years after, and feel the pine-needles under my knees, and smell the wood smoke mingling with the musky perfume of her hair and the scent of the wild flowers outside her bower ... the soft lips teasing my ear, murmuring "Make my bells ring again, pinda-lickoyee* (* Literally," white-eye "; a white man ....)"
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Some details here on the Togian white-eye and its discoverer.
Archive 2008-03-01 2008
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Was it true that she wanted to marry the brute, foreign white-eye and scalp-hunter that he was?
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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In the meantime, it was some slight reassurance to find that however unreal and terrifying my plight might seem to me, the tribe were ready to take it for granted, and even be quite hospitable about it, white-eye though I was.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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Worse, Isak is a white-eye, born with distinctive eyes, a large frame, unusual strength and an exceedingly quick temper.
Archive 2008-09-01 Lou Anders 2008
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Worse, Isak is a white-eye, born with distinctive eyes, a large frame, unusual strength and an exceedingly quick temper.
The Stormcaller, from Today's Publishers Weekly Lou Anders 2008
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Isak is interesting to follow in this mostly because of his white-eye temper.
Today in Fantasy: March 21, 2010 Jeff C 2010
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I suppose he was sick as mud that a despised white-eye looked like succeeding where he had failed, and while I understood no word, it was obvious he wasn't appearing as prisoner's friend; when he'd done bawling the odds he hurled his hatchet into the ground at my feet.
Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010
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