Usually means: Looking at with interest, suspicion.
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We found 15 dictionaries that define the word eying:

General (11 matching dictionaries)
  1. eying: Merriam-Webster
  2. eying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. eying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. eying: Vocabulary.com
  5. Eying, eying: Wordnik
  6. eying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. eying: Wiktionary
  8. eying: Dictionary.com
  9. eying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. eying: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. eying: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eying: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eying: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. eying: Medical dictionary

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  1. eying: Idioms

(Note: See eye as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (eye)

noun:  An organ through which animals see (“perceive surroundings via light”).
noun:  The visual sense.
noun:  The iris of the eye, being of a specified colour.
noun:  Attention, notice.
noun:  The ability to notice what others might miss.
noun:  A meaningful look or stare.
noun:  A hole at the blunt end of a needle through which thread is passed.
noun:  The oval hole of an axehead through which the axehandle is fitted.
noun:  A fitting consisting of a loop of metal or other material, suitable for receiving a hook or the passage of a cord or line.
noun:  A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a hook, pin, rope, shaft, etc.; for example, at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss, through a crank, at the end of a rope, or through a millstone.
noun:  (US) A burner on a kitchen stove.
noun:  The relatively calm and clear centre of a hurricane or other cyclonic storm.
noun:  A mark on an animal, such as a butterfly or peacock, resembling a human eye.
noun:  The dark spot on a black-eyed pea.
noun:  A reproductive bud in a potato.
noun:  (informal) The dark brown centre of a black-eyed Susan flower.
noun:  That which resembles the eye in relative beauty or importance.
noun:  A shade of colour; a tinge.
noun:  One of the holes in certain kinds of cheese.
noun:  (architecture) The circle in the centre of a volute.
noun:  (nautical, in the plural) The foremost part of a ship's bows; the hawseholes.
noun:  (typography) The enclosed counter (“negative space”) of the lower-case letter e.
noun:  (go) An empty point or group of points surrounded by one player's stones.
noun:  (usually in the plural) Opinion, view.
noun:  (mining) Synonym of pit-eye
verb:  (transitive) To carefully or appraisingly observe (someone or something).
verb:  (intransitive, obsolete) To appear; to look.
verb:  (transitive) To remove the reproductive buds from (potatoes).
verb:  (transitive) To allow (fish eggs) to develop so that the black eye spots are visible.
noun:  The name of the Latin-script letter I/i.
noun:  A brood.
noun:  A place name:
noun:  A large village and civil parish in the City of Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England (OS grid ref TF2202).
noun:  A small village in Eye, Moreton and Ashton parish, north Herefordshire, England (OS grid ref SO4963).
noun:  A small town and civil parish with a town council in Mid Suffolk district, Suffolk, England (OS grid ref TM1473).
noun:  A short river in Cotswold district, Gloucestershire, England, which joins the River Dikler.
noun:  A river in Melton borough, Leicestershire, England, which becomes the River Wreake.
noun:  A former unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States.
noun:  (UK, colloquial, "the Eye") the comedic magazine Private Eye.
noun:  (UK, "the Eye") The London Eye, a tourist attraction in London.
noun:  Short for private eye. [(idiomatic) A private personal detective, employed to gather information about someone.]
▸ Also see eye


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