(ī) noun
1. The organ of vision in animals; especially, the human eye, a nearly spherical mass set in a cavity of the skull and consisting of the cornea, iris, pupil, lens, with associated muscles and optic nerve, also the eyelids, eyelashes, and eyebrows.
2. Ocular perception; sight.
3. Capacity for seeing or discerning.
4. Attentive observation; watchful care.
5. A particular look or expression; mien.
6. Mental or moral vision; estimation; also, regard; desire.
7. Anything that resembles the human organ of sight, or its socket, in shape, place, or office: the eye of a needle, the eye of a potato, apple, gooseberry, dahlia, etc.
8. Meteorol. The calm central area of an advancing hurricane or cyclone: also eye of the storm.
—to keep an eye out or peeled To watch for; keep alert.
—to lay eyes on To see.
—v.t. eyed, ey·ing or eye·ing
1. To look at carefully; scrutinize.
2. To make a hole in, like the eye of a needle. ♦ Homophones: aye, I. [OE ēage]
CROSS–SECTION OF THE HUMAN EYE

(ī) noun
A brood, as of pheasants. ♦ Homophones: aye, I. [ME nye <OF ni <L nidus a nest: in ME a nye was altered to an eye]