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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Sheep's-eye

· Sheep'sĀ·-eye · IPA
01 n. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
  1. 1.
    A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural.
    “I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye.” — Wycherley.