Sheep's-eye

Sheep's-eye
Sheep's-eye Sheep's"-eye`, n. A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the plural. [1913 Webster]

I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye. --Wycherley. [1913 Webster]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English. 2000.

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