sheep's-eye

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sheep's-eye - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sheep's-eye \Sheep's"-eye`\, n.
     A modest, diffident look; a loving glance; -- commonly in the
     plural.
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           I saw her just now give him the languishing eye, as
           they call it; . . . of old called the sheep's-eye.
                                                    --Wycherley.
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