owly eied

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owly eied (comparative more owly eied, superlative most owly eied)

  1. Obsolete spelling of owly-eyed.
    • 1590, Philip Sidney, The Countess of Pembroke's Arcadia[1], Book III, Chapter 21:
      [] (for thus did their wicked mindes blind to the light of vertue, & owly eied in the night of wickedness interpret of it) []