eyeing

Verb

eye (third-person singular simple present eyes, present participle eyeing or (rare) eying, simple past and past participle eyed)

1. (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
   • After eyeing the document for half an hour, she decided not to sign it.

   Synonyms:

   gaze

2. (transitive) To consider.
   • Mr. Smith is eyeing a departmental reorganization plan.
3. (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
   • My becomings kill me, when they do not eye well to you.c. 1606–1607 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Anthonie and Cleopatra”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard...
4. (transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
   • Once the potatoes have been rumbled they require 'eyeing' with a turning knife or hand peeler.1996, Food Preparation and Cooking, page 418
5. (transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
   • Eggs were collected from the Taylor Creek, Upper Truckee River, and Blackwood Creek traps and transported to this station to be eyed […]1927, Appendix to the Journals of the Senate and Assembly of the Forty-Seventh Session of the Legislature of the State of California

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