eyestring

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English

Alternative forms

eye-string

Etymology

From eye +‎ string.

Noun

eyestring (plural eyestrings)

(obsolete, anatomy, chiefly in the plural) One of the fibres of the eye, such as a tendon, nerve or muscle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “The Cave of Mammon”, in The Faerie Queene, Book 2, Canto VII:
  Or euer sleepe his eye-strings did vntye
  Or ever sleep his eye-strings did untie
- a. 1611, William Shakespeare, Cymbeline, act 1, scene 4:
  I would have broke mine eyestrings, cracked them, but / To look upon him,

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