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Eyeless

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Eye´less`
a.1.Without eyes; blind.
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Adj.1.eyeless - lacking eyes or eyelike features; "eyeless fish that evolved in dark caves"; "an eyeless needle"
eyed - having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination; "a peacock's eyed feathers"; "red-eyed"
2.Eyelesseyeless - lacking sight; "blind as an eyeless beggar"
sightless, unseeing
blind, unsighted - unable to see; "a person is blind to the extent that he must devise alternative techniques to do efficiently those things he would do with sight if he had normal vision"--Kenneth Jernigan
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The countless dismal windows, vacant and forlorn, stared, sightless, from their marble walls; the whole sad city taking on the semblance of scattered mounds of dead men's sun-bleached skulls--the casements having the appearance of eyeless sockets, the portals, grinning jaws.
Thuvia, Maid of Mars by Burroughs, Edgar Rice View in context
I held out my hand, and the horrible, soft-spoken, eyeless creature gripped it in a moment like a vise.
Treasure Island by Stevenson, Robert Louis View in context
Or, to the unread, unsophisticated Protestant of the Middle American States, why does the passing mention of a White Friar or a White Nun, evoke such an eyeless statue in the soul?
Moby Dick I-LXVII by Melville, Herman View in context
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