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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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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One-eyed person. (from Phrontistery)
May 25, 2008