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EYELASH

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

Synonyms:

cilium; eyelash; lash

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Hypernyms ("eyelash" is a kind of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

Holonyms ("eyelash" is a part of...):

eyelid; lid; palpebra (either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye)

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 Context examples: 

I wish you could see him; he is very tall of his age, with sweet laughing blue eyes, dark eyelashes, and curling hair.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The expression of the eye is most correct, but Miss Smith has not those eyebrows and eyelashes. It is the fault of her face that she has them not.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

I lay quiet, looking out under my eyelashes in an agony of delightful anticipation.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Anything to equal the low cunning of his visage, and of his shadowless eyes without the ghost of an eyelash, I never saw.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Their eyelashes were frosted white, as were their muzzles, and they had all the seeming of decrepit old age, what of the frost-rime and exhaustion.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Eyelashes and cheeks and lips were so coated with the crystals from their frozen breath that their faces were not discernible.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Clinical signs at birth include recurrent respiratory infections, poor feeding, hypotonia, joint laxity and characteristic shortened fifth digits with hypoplastic or absent nails and craniofacial appearance: microcephaly, wide nose and lips, sparse scalp hair but thick eyebrows and eyelashes.

(Coffin-Siris Syndrome, NCI Thesaurus)

A drug used under the name Latisse to increase the length, thickness, and darkness of eyelashes.

(Bimatoprost, NCI Dictionary)

I had no reason to believe that Littimer understood such arts himself; he never led me to suppose anything of the kind, by so much as the vibration of one of his respectable eyelashes; yet whenever he was by, while we were practising, I felt myself the greenest and most inexperienced of mortals.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“She was at much pains at my upbringing, and, by my soul! I will uphold the curve of her eyelashes, for it tickleth my very heart-root to think of her. But who is here?”

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)