Emily Dickinson Lexicon

eye (-s, e'e.), n. [OE, *oq-, to see.] (webplay: advantage, apple, attention, ball, blue, Booksellers, Christ, color, consequently, contemplation, cordage, countenance, direct, enlightened, evidently, face, fastenings, favor, feather, figure, fixed, flies, form, front, glance, hands, hear, inspection, jealousy, Jesus, look, lower, man, master, mind, morning's, movable, narrowly, nature's, notice, observation, opposition, parts, peacock's, plant, power, printed, purple, received, red, regard, resembling, sail, set, ships, sight, small, understanding, view, vision, walks, watch, wind's, work, observe, watch).

1. Oculus; organ of sight; two round globes used for seeing in the center of the human face; [fig.] organ of consciousness; life force; window to the soul.
2. Distrust; envy; suspicion; supervision; alert.
3. View; glance; gaze; range of vision; [fig.] observation; attention; perception; discernment; evaluation; examination; inspection; point of view; instrument of analysis.
4. [Personification] transition zone; cusp of energy; center of activity; collision of currents; merger of fronts.
5. Watcher; viewer; scout; sentry; sentinel; scanner; lookout; person who searches for lost souls.
6. Instrument of faith; organ of spiritual vision; capacity to withstand divine glory.
7. Source of tears; wellspring of emotion; organ of expressing sorrow in the human face.
8. Orb; eyeball; ocular globe.

eyelid (-s), n. [see eye, n. + lid n.]

Closed organ of sight; cover over the oculus; moveable upper protective flap of skin above the orbs of vision; [fig.] corpse; remains; dead one; deceased person.