EYELASH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does eyelash mean? 

• EYELASH (noun)
  The noun EYELASH has 1 sense:

1. any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

  Familiarity information: EYELASH used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• EYELASH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of the short curved hairs that grow from the edges of the eyelids

Classified under:

Nouns denoting body parts

Synonyms:

cilium; eyelash; lash

Hypernyms ("eyelash" is a kind of...):

hair (a covering for the body (or parts of it) consisting of a dense growth of threadlike structures (as on the human head); helps to prevent heat loss)

Holonyms ("eyelash" is a part of...):

eyelid; lid; palpebra (either of two folds of skin that can be moved to cover or open the eye)

 Context examples 

It is being studied as a way to increase the growth of eyelashes and eyebrows in patients given chemotherapy for cancer.

(Bimatoprost, NCI Dictionary)

It would not be easy, indeed, to catch their expression, but their colour and shape, and the eyelashes, so remarkably fine, might be copied.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

By increasing the numbers of hair follicles in and duration of anagen phase, bimatoprost may help increase eyebrow and eyelash growth and appearance, including their length, thickness and darkness.

(Bimatoprost Ophthalmic Solution, NCI Thesaurus)

Inflammation of the eyelids near the eyelashes.

(Blepharitis, NCI Thesaurus)

Why, John, so strong and strange a tilter must fight for the brightness of his lady's eyes or the curve of her eyelash, even as Sir Nigel does for the Lady Loring.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The drug bimatoprost used to increase the length, thickness, and darkness of eyelashes.

(Latisse, NCI Dictionary)

He was a strange little ferret-like man, with white eyelashes, and when I looked up at him I found his keen grey eyes fixed upon me with an amused expression.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I drew them large; I shaped them well: the eyelashes I traced long and sombre; the irids lustrous and large.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Two common eye infections are: • Conjunctivitis - also known as pinkeye • Stye - a bump on the eyelid that happens when bacteria from your skin get into the hair follicle of an eyelash.

(Eye Infections, NIH)

A gland in the margins of the eyelids that opens into the follicles of the eyelashes and produces secretions that lubricate the eyeball.

(Gland of Moll, NCI Thesaurus)