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eyne

English

Alternative forms

  • eyen

Etymology

From Old English ?agan, plural of ?age.

Noun

eyne

  1. (obsolete) plural of eye
    • 1605, The Trial of Chivalry (a play of uncertain unauthorship)
      Were it to search the furthest Northern clime / Where frosty Hyems with an ycie Mace / Strikes dead all living things, Ide find it out, / And borrowing fire from those fayre sunny eyne / Thaw Winters frost and warme that dead cold clime: []

Anagrams

  • eeny, eyen, yeen

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eyre

English

Etymology

From Old French erre (journey, march, way), from Latin iter, itineris (a going, way), from the root of ire (to go). Compare errant, itinerant, issue.

Pronunciation

  • (General American) enPR: âr, IPA(key): /???/, /??/
  • Rhymes: -??(?)
  • Homophones: air, Ayr, ere, heir, are (unit of measurement); err (one pronunciation); e'er (US)

Noun

eyre (plural eyres)

  1. (Britain, law, obsolete) A journey in circuit of certain itinerant judges called justices in eyre (or in itinere).

Anagrams

  • Eyer, Reye, eery, eyer, y'ere, ye're, yeer, yere

Middle English

Noun

eyre

  1. Alternative form of eere (ear of grain)

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