ROGET'S THESAURUS OF ENGLISH WORDS AND PHRASES ...

look full in the face, look hard at, look intently; strain one's eyes; fix the eyes upon,
rivet the eyes upon; stare, gaze; pore over, gloat on; leer, ogle, glare; goggle; cock the
eye, squint, gloat, look askance.
Adj. seeing &c v.; visual, ocular; optic, optical; ophthalmic.
clear-eyesighted &c n.; eagle-eyed, hawk-eyed, lynx-eyed, keen-eyed, Argus-eyed.
visible &c 446.
Adv. visibly &c 446; in sight of, with one's eyes open at sight, at first sight, at a glance,
at the first blush; prima facie [Lat.].
Int. look!, &c (attention) 457.
Phr. the scales falling from one's eyes; an eye like Mars to threaten or command
[Hamlet]; her eyes are homes of silent prayer [Tennyson]; looking before and after
[Hamlet]; thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes [Milton].
442. Blindness -- N. blindness, cecity † , excecation † , amaurosis † , cataract, ablepsy † ,
ablepsia † , prestriction † ; dim-sightedness &c 443; Braille, Braille-type; guttaserena (drop
serene), noctograph † , teichopsia † .
V. be blind &c adj.; not see; lose sight of; have the eyes bandaged; grope in the dark.
not look; close the eyes, shut the eyes-, turn away the eyes, avert the eyes; look
another way; wink &c (limited vision) 443; shut the eyes to, be blind to, wink at, blink at.
render blind &c adj.; blind, blindfold; hoodwink, dazzle, put one's eyes out; throw
dust into one's eyes, pull the wool over one's eyes; jeter de la poudre aux yeux [Fr.];
screen from sight &c (hide) 528.
Adj. blind; eyeless, sightless, visionless; dark; stone-blind, sand-blind, stark-blind;
undiscerning † ; dimsighted &c 443.
blind as a bat, blind as a buzzard, blind as a beetle, blind as a mole, blind as an owl;
wall-eyed.
blinded &c v..
Adv. blindly, blindfold, blindfolded; darkly.
Phr. O dark, dark, dark, amid the blaze of noon [Milton].
443. [Imperfect vision.] Dimsightedness [Fallacies of vision.] -- N. dim sight, dull sight
half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight;
dimsightedness &c; purblindness, lippitude † ; myopia, presbyopia † ; confusion of vision;
astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis † , Daltonism; nyctalopia † ;
strabismus, strabism † , squint; blearedness † , day blindness, hemeralopia † , nystagmus;
xanthocyanopia † , xanthopsia [Med.]; cast in the eye, swivel eye, goggle-eyes; obliquity
of vision.
winking &c v.; nictitation; blinkard † , albino.
dizziness, swimming, scotomy † ; cataract; ophthalmia.
[Limitation of vision] blinker; screen &c (hider) 530.
[Fallacies of vision] deceptio visus [Lat.]; refraction, distortion, illusion, false light,
anamorphosis † , virtual image, spectrum, mirage, looming, phasma † ; phantasm,
phantasma † , phantom; vision; specter, apparition, ghost; ignis fatuus [Lat.] &c (luminary)
423; specter of the Brocken; magic mirror; magic lantern &c (show) 448; mirror lens &c
(instrument) 445.