oculus

[ UK /ˈɒkjʊləs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the organ of sight
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  • Epicharis, when questioned and confronted with Proculus, resolutely denied that she had ever held any such conversation with Proculus as he alledged, and feigned the utmost astonishment at what she termed the impudence of his accusation. Nero Makers of History Series
  • But he is most jazzed by the atmospheric breakfast parlor, a domed lair that's dramatically lit by concealed skylights and a stained-glass oculus. The Lived-In Look
  • An author who says that _paganus_ means village, who makes _ocula_ the plural of _oculus_, and who supposes that _in petto_ means _in little_, is not qualified to settle Dr. Webster's claims as a philologer, much less to treat him with contempt. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 25, November, 1859
  • At the top of these lancets is a small quatrefoil oculus or rose. Sensual Encounters: Monastic Women and Spirituality in Medieval Germany
  • I evoked the oculus in the coffered dome, an engineering feat as well as a symbolic gesture of colossal proportions. Alla Kazovsky: Orchestrating Experience
  • Test consists of a spherical proloculus followed by a uniserial arrangement of three-lobed chambers.
  • What you notice as you approach Centra from the Metropark train station, a five- minute walk down the road, is its new fourth floor, which cantilevers out over a plaza and completes the square of the "L", leaving an oculus in the center. Transforming an Ugly Duckling
  • Page 132 or unburnt bricks, paving and roofing tiles, gas retorts, and roofing slates; coal, coke, and culm of coal; cochineal; cocoa nuts, cocoa and cocoa shells; coculus indicus; coir yarn; codilla, or tow of hemp or flax; cowhage down; cream of tartar; cudbear. The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, from the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive. Arranged in Chronological Order. Together with the Consti
  • Skidmore, Owings & Merrill/John Blaustein An almond-shaped skylight or "oculus" is at the top of the building, through which sunlight shines in different patterns throughout the day. Inside Oakland's Cathedral of Christ the Light
  • The light entering through the oculus at the top floods the space with hypnotic patterns of light and shadow.
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