eyestrings

eyestrings
noun plural
obsolete : organic eye attachments (as muscles of the eye) once popularly viewed as causing blindness by breaking or as breaking at death

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/uy"stringz'/, n.pl. Obs.
the muscles, nerves, or tendons of the eye.
[1595-1605; EYE + STRING + -S3]

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