Word Meanings - EYELASH - Book Publishers vocabulary database

1. The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl. 2. A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.

Related words: (words related to EYELASH)

• EYELID
  The cover of the eye; that portion of movable skin with which an animal covers or uncovers the eyeball at pleasure.
• FRINGENT
  Encircling like a fringe; bordering. "The fringent air." Emerson.
• FRINGE TREE
  A small oleaceous tree , of the southern United States, having clusters of white flowers with slender petals. It is often cultivated.
• FRINGED
  Furnished with a fringe. Fringed lear , a leaf edged with soft parallel hairs.
• FRINGELESS
  Having no fringe.
• EDGESHOT
  Having an edge planed, -- said of a board. Knight.
• FRINGE
  One of a number of light or dark bands, produced by the interference of light; a diffraction band; -- called also interference fringe. (more info) 1. An ornamental appendage to the border of a piece of stuff, originally consisting of the ends of
• INFRINGER
  One who infringes or violates; a violator. Strype.
• UNDERFRINGE
  A lower fringe; a fringe underneath something. Broad-faced, with underfringe of russet beard. Tennyson.
• INFRINGE
  1. To break; to violate; to transgress; to neglect to fulfill or obey; as, to infringe a law or contract. If the first that did the edict infringe, Had answered for his deed. Shak. The peace . . . was infringed by Appius Claudius. Golding. 2. To
• BEFRINGE
  To furnish with a fringe; to form a fringe upon; to adorn as with fringe. Fuller.
• REFRINGENCY
  The power possessed by a substance to refract a ray; as, different substances have different refringencies. Nichol.
• INFRINGEMENT
  1. The act of infringing; breach; violation; nonfulfillment; as, the infringement of a treaty, compact, law, or constitution. The punishing of this infringement is proper to that jurisdiction against which the contempt is. Clarendon.
• REFRINGENT
  Pertaining to, or possessing, refringency; refractive; refracting; as, a refringent prism of spar. Nichol.
• VORTEX FRINGE
  The region immediately surrounding a disk moving flatwise through air; -- so called because the air has a cyclic motion as in vortex ring.