clear-eye

[ kleer-ahy ]

noun

, plural clear-eyes.

1. the clary, Salvia sclarea.

Word History and Origins

Origin of clear-eye¹

First recorded in 1575–85; alteration by folk etymology of clary

Example Sentences

“I watch it because how he sets his runs up, how he develops things in his mind, and I kind of see it from a clear-eye view,” Cook said.

From Washington Times

“But with sitting out a year, I learned so much about myself as a man. Like I said, everything I do is with a clear-eye view. It’s a focused vision, a determined belief and earned dream. So it’s something that I live by and I walk with every single day.”

From Washington Times

Clary, or clear-eye, or Christ's-eye, which latter name makes the same writer indignantly say, "I could wish from my soul that blasphemy and ignorance were ceased among physicians"—as if the poor doctors gave these folk-names!

From Project Gutenberg