Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun An old and disused genus of the Linnean class Insecta and order Aptera, having or seeming to have only one eye —that is, two eyes coalesced in one.
  • noun [lowercase] A one-eyed animal; a monocule or monocle.
  • noun [l. c] A bandage for one eye.

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Examples

  • The forms of it (the bandage?) are the simple, the slightly winding (called ascia), the sloping (sima), the monoculus, the rhombus, and the semi-rhombus.

    On The Surgery 2007

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