EYELIDS

"EYELIDS" is a plural of: eyelid.

Date "EYELIDS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Mechanical Engineering

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Inactivity

Sleep, slumber, be asleep; hibernate; oversleep; sleep like a top, sleep like a log, sleep like a dormouse; sleep soundly, heavily; doze, drowze, snooze, nap; take a nap; Noun: dream; snore one's best; settle to sleep, go to sleep, go off to sleep; doze off, drop off; fall asleep; drop asleep; close the eyes, seal up the eyes, seal up eyelids; weigh down the eyelids; get sleep, nod, yawn; go to bed, turn; get some z's, stack z's.

Dullness; Adjective: languor; segnity, segnitude; lentor; sluggishness; (slowness); procrastination; (delay); torpor, torpidity, torpescence; stupor; (insensibility); somnolence; drowsiness; Adjective: nodding; Verb: oscitation, oscitancy; pandiculation, hypnotism, lethargy; statuvolence heaviness, heavy eyelids.

Crosswords: EYELIDS

Come along, Dexter, I know a formula that's said to pop the pennies off the eyelids of dead Irishmen. (The Philadelphia Story; writing credit: Donald Ogden Stewart. Based on the play by Philip Barry.)

Open them or I'll staple your eyelids to your forehead! (Red Dragon; writing credit: Ted Tally)

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Books

• Eyelids of Morning: The Mingled Destinies of Crocodiles and Men (reference)

• Eyelids of morning; the mingled destinies of crocodiles and men Being a description of the origins, history, and prospects of Lake Rudolf, its peoples, deserts, rivers, mountains, and weather (reference)

• Orbit, Eyelids and Lacrimal System: Section Seven (reference)

• External Diseases: Cornea, Conjunctiva, Sclera, Eyelids, Lacrimal System (reference)

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Two soft hands on his eyelids press : a laughing voice, who am I? -- guess!. Credit: Library of Congress.

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As a duck with his eyelids, so he with his nose Trims his belt and his buttons, and turns out his toes.

They saw only her sweet face, her hair was in charming disorder, her eyelids were still swollen with sleep.

He moved a thin shrunken brown hand gently in the air in time to his praise and his thin quick eyelids beat often over his sad eyes.

Tommy, looking at her, gradually dropped his eyelids, until just a short glitter showed through his lashes.

Like the marmots in the surrounding hills, it closes its eyelids and becomes dormant for three months or more.

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Health

Sarcoidosis of the nose and eyelids. (references)

In some cases, an eye patch may be used to immobilize the eyelids. (references)

Blepharospasm, the second most common focal dystonia, is the involuntary, forcible closure of the eyelids. (references)

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Expressions using "EYELIDS": heavy eyelids ♦ To hang by the eyelids. Additional references.

Chinese 

眢 (inflamed eyelids, parched). (various references)

Danish

øjenlågsklapper (clamshell shutters, eyelid reverser). (various references)

Dutch

straalpijpkleppen (clamshell shutters). (various references)

Finnish

suihkukaihtimet (clamshell shutters). (various references)

French

paupières (eyelash), déflecteurs mobiles. (various references)

German

Schubdüsenstellklappen (clamshell shutters), Schubdüsenkalotten (clamshell shutters), Augenlid-Verstellklappen (clamshell shutters). (various references)

Greek 

φλεγμονή του ταρσού των βλεφάρων (inflammation of tarsus of the eyelids). (various references)

Hungarian

szemhéj (eyelid, lid). (various references)

Italian

palpebre (clamshell shutters). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

瞼 . (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まぶた (eyelid). (various references)

Pig Latin

eyelidsay

Portuguese

deflectores articulados em forma de pálpebras (clamshell shutters). (various references)

Romany

klepachì. (various references)

Spanish

persianas pálpebras (clamshell shutters). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Misspellings

"EYELIDS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ayyubids, edelrid, eelis, eyepits, seyyids, Syledis, yelid. (additional references)

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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: seedily.

-1 letter: diesel, ediles, elides, eyelid, sedile, seidel, yields.

-2 letters: deils, deles, delis, edile, elide, idles, idyls, isled, lysed, seedy, seely, sidle, slide, yield.

-3 letters: dees, deil, dele, deli, dels, deys, diel, dies, dyes, eels, eely, eide, elds, else, eyed, eyes, ides, idle, idly, idyl, isle, lees, leis, leys, lids, lied, lies, lyes, lyse, seed.

+1 letter: speedily, yielders.

+2 letters: diversely, serriedly, yuletides.

+3 letters: adhesively, decisively, defensibly, delusively, derisively, designedly, discreetly, discretely, glycerides, myelitides, resignedly.

+4 letters: cyclodienes, defensively, dictyostele, digestively, dispersedly, lysogenised, lysogenized, misemployed, polymerised, psychedelia, psychedelic, redisplayed, seductively, vinylidenes.

+5 letters: decreasingly, degressively, depressingly, depressively, despitefully, despiteously, dictyosteles, diglycerides, digressively, disagreeably, disorderedly, dispersively, drysalteries, dyeabilities, etymologised, hemodialyses, indecisively, indefeasibly, indefensibly, indiscreetly, interestedly, iridescently, molybdenites, polydisperse, polypeptides, postdelivery, proselytised, proselytized, psychedelias, psychedelics, restrainedly, restrictedly.