one-eyed

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one-eyed

adj

1. having only one eye

2. (Anatomy) having only one eye

3. (Anatomy) myth having only one eye

4. (Classical Myth & Legend) myth having only one eye

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Adj.

one-eyed - having or showing only one eye; "one-eyed Jacks are wild"; "the three one-eyed Cyclopes of Greek myth"

eyed - having an eye or eyes or eyelike feature especially as specified; often used in combination; "a peacock's eyed feathers"; "red-eyed"

Translations

one-eyed

[ˈwʌnˈaɪd] ADJ → tuerto

Collins Spanish Dictionary - Complete and Unabridged 8th Edition 2005 © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1971, 1988 © HarperCollins Publishers 1992, 1993, 1996, 1997, 2000, 2003, 2005

one-eyed

[ˌwʌnˈaɪd] adj → con un occhio solo

Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995

one-eyed

n. tuerto-a.

English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012

one-eyed

adj tuerto

References in classic literature ?

Nevertheless, he ran with his head even with the shoulder of his one-eyed elder.

The she-wolf, the young leader on her left, and the one-eyed elder on her right, led their half of the pack down to the Mackenzie River and across into the lake country to the east.

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Couldn't have supposed it possible!' and other expressions of astonishment which burst spontaneously from his lips, as he returned the fixed gaze of the one-eyed man.

Pickwick was mixing his brandy-and-water, the one-eyed man looked round at him earnestly, from time to time, and at length said--

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How many wives this one-eyed potentate maintained we are not told, but he certainly possessed great sway, not merely over his own tribe, but over the neighborhood.

M'Dougal, who was somewhat vain of his official rank, had given it to be understood that they were two chiefs of a great trading company, about to be established here, and the quick-sighted, though one-eyed chief, who was somewhat practiced in traffic with white men, immediately perceived the policy of cultivating the friendship of two such important visitors.

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Quasimodo, the one-eyed! Quasimodo, the bandy-legged!

He looks at you; he's one-eyed. You speak to him; he's deaf.

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NEARLY three weeks had elapsed since the second visit of Marnoo, and it must have been more than four months since I entered the valley, when one day about noon, and whilst everything was in profound silence, Mow-Mow, the one-eyed chief, suddenly appeared at the door, and leaning towards me as I lay directly facing him, said in a low tone, 'Toby pemi ena' (Toby has arrived here).

To all his repeated assertions, that my companion had not been seen, I pretended to turn a deaf ear, while I urged my solicitations with an eloquence of gesture which the one-eyed chief appeared unable to resist.

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"Are you Masr-ed-Deen, the merchant of Alexandria, or is it from far Bagdad that you bring your goods, O, my uncle; and yonder one-eyed youth, do I see in him one of the three kings of whom Scheherazade told stories to her lord?"

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"She distils nothing of the kind, vile rabble," said Don Quixote, burning with rage, "nothing of the kind, I say, only ambergris and civet in cotton; nor is she one-eyed or humpbacked, but straighter than a Guadarrama spindle: but ye must pay for the blasphemy ye have uttered against beauty like that of my lady."