Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Watching in all directions; having keen sight.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective rare Having a deceitful look.
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Examples
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This double-eyed style makes it easy to add a stinger hook at the minnow's tail.
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(Foxhounds have a yellow spot over each eye which makes them seem double-eyed.)
Stories the Iroquois Tell Their Children Mabel Powers
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As the Candy Man watched, gleams of light presently began to pierce the mist, from a hundred windows, from passing street cars and cabs, from darting machines now transformed into strange, double-eyed demons.
The Little Red Chimney Being the Love Story of a Candy Man Mary Finley Leonard
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We have now obtained the double-eyed or twin pictures, or
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I went across the way, and began to barter for a pair of double-eyed green spectacles.
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The sword was of exact Phoenician mould; the double-eyed spear-head, formed at once for strength and lightness, might have served as the model for a sculptor in arming the hand of Minerva.
Handy Andy, Volume 2 — a Tale of Irish Life Samuel Lover 1832
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The spacecraft has revealed astonishing details of the planet's dynamic cloud system, including its striking double-eyed atmospheric vortex that dominates the south pole.
Spaceflight Now 2009
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The guru bead is a new double-eyed dZi (for harmony (primarily between husband and wife), a happy family, good relationships, and success).
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It has already shed light on Venusian features never seen before, such as the double-eyed vortex at the planet’s South Pole.
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