see n.
(UK Und.) in pl., the eyes.
![]() | implied in sew someone’s sees | |
, , | ![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. |
![]() | Lex. Balatronicum. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Pelham III 291: Ah, Bess, my covess, strike me blind if my sees don’t tout your bingo muns in spite of the darkmans. | |
![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. | |
![]() | Vocabulum. |
In phrases
to give someone a black eye.
![]() | Muses Delight 177: I darken’d his daylights, and sew’d up his sees, / And up with my dew-beaters tript him. | ‘A Cant Song’|
![]() | Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: [...] sow [sic] up his sees, to close up a man’s eyes in boxing. | |
![]() | New Dict. Cant (1795) n.p.: seem-up the seas [sic] to give two black eyes. | |
![]() | Dict. Sl. and Cant n.p.: sew up the seas [sic] to give a person two black eyes. | |
![]() | Tom Crib’s Memorial to Congress 3: To close up their eyes – alias, to sow up their sees. | |
![]() | Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue. | |
![]() | Modern Flash Dict. | |
![]() | Flash Dict. in Sinks of London Laid Open. | |
![]() | New and Improved Flash Dict. |