EXTREMITY, in its primary sense, signifies the utmost point or border of a t hung. it also denotes the highest or fur thest degree; as the extremity of pain or suffering; or the Greeks have endured oppression in its utmost extremity.—in painting and sculpture, the extremities of the body, are the held, hands, and feet.
EYE. the eye is the most active feature in the countenance, the first of our organs to awake, and the last to cease motion. It is indicative of the higher and holier einotions, of all those feelings which dis tinguish man from the brute. In the eye we look for meaning, sentiment, and reproof ; it is the chief feature of expres sion. A large eye is not only consistent with beauty, hut essential to it. Homer describes Juno as " ox-eyed." The eye of the gazelle illustrates the Arab's idea of woman's beauty, when ho comparee the eye of his beloved to that of this ani mal. The timidity, gentleness, and inno cent fear in the eyes of all the deer tribe, are compared with the modesty of a young girl. in a well-formed face the
eye ought to be sunk, relatively to the forehead, but not in reference to the face; that would impart a very mean expres sion. It is the strong shadow produced by the projecting eyebrow which gives powerful effect to the eye in sculpture.— The word eye is used in a great variety of senses, both literal and figurative.— Eye, in architecture, is used to signify any round window, made in a pediment, an attic, the reins of a vault, tte. —Eye of a dome, an aperture at the top of a dome, as that of the Pantheon at Rome, or of St. Paul's at London ; it is usually covered with a lantern.—Eye of the vo lute, is the centre of the volute, or that point in which the helix, or spiral of which it is formed, commences.