a. Having a quick eye (see QUICK a. 20). Also fig.

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a. 1616.  Beaum. & Fl., Bonduca, IV. iii. Care, counsel, Quick-eyed experience, and victory.

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1647.  H. More, Song of Soul, II. iii. III. xli. The cheerfull children of the quick-ey’d Morn.

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1727–46.  Thomson, Summer, 253. The quick-eyed trout Or darting salmon.

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1809–10.  Coleridge, Friend (1865), 214. Brissot … was rather a sublime visionary than a quick-eyed politician.

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1876.  T. Hardy, Ethelberta (1890), 215. A quick-eyed, light-haired, slight-built woman.

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