Eye-pit

[f. EYE sb.¹ + PIT.] a. The pit or socket of the eye. b. The depression between the eye and the orbit.

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c. 1275. Death, 241 (Cotton), in O. E. Misc., 182. Also beoð his eȝe-puttes ase a bruþen led.

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1774. Goldsm., Nat. Hist., III. iii. 78. This animal [Antelope] … has deeper eyepits than the former.

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1846. J. Baxter, Libr. Pract. Agric., I. 412. By the depth of the eye-pit we are enabled to form some idea of the age of the horse.

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1879. E. Arnold, Lt. Asia, 58. His eyepits red with rust of ancient tears.

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