eyestrings

[ ahy-stringz ]

plural noun

, Obsolete.

1. the muscles, nerves, or tendons of the eye.

Word History and Origins

Origin of eyestrings¹

First recorded in 1595–1605; eye + string + -s ³

Example Sentences

But the Christian lyric maintains its life and inspiration through the vicissitudes of age and use, as all intrinsically superior things can and will,—and as in the twentieth line,— When my eyestrings break in death; —modernized to— When my eyelids close in death, —the hymn will ever adapt itself to the new exigencies of common speech, without losing its vitality and power.

From Project Gutenberg

Whilst I draw this fleeting breath, When my eyestrings break in death; When I soar through tracts unknown, See Thee on Thy judgment throne, Rock of ages, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in Thee.

From Project Gutenberg

I would have broke mine eyestrings, crack'd them but     To look upon him, till the diminution     Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;     Nay, followed him till he had melted from     The smallness of a gnat to air, and then     Have turn'd mine eye and wept.

From Project Gutenberg

I would have broke mine eyestrings, crack'd them but     To look upon him, till the diminution     Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;     Nay, followed him till he had melted from     The smallness of a gnat to air, and then     Have turn'd mine eye and wept.

From Project Gutenberg

I would have broke mine eyestrings, crack'd them but     To look upon him, till the diminution     Of space had pointed him sharp as my needle;     Nay, followed him till he had melted from     The smallness of a gnat to air, and then     Have turn'd mine eye and wept.

From Project Gutenberg