EYE. A loop, ring, or hole through a sub stance; also direction, as in the wind's eye. The extreme forward part of a ship is called the eyes of the ship. Chinese junks and other native craft have blocks of wood shaped and painted to resemble human eyes placed on each side of the how, and the hawse-holes of ships of Europe and America are sometimes compared to eyes, and may at one time have been so called. The eyes of the rigging are loops formed in the shrouds or stays for fitting around the mastheads. A deadeye is a block of hard wood (usually lignum vita) pierced with several holes. Two deadeyes are made to form a sort of tackle by reeving a rope through them: in rigged ships of old type the lower ends of shrouds and stays were secured to such tackles, which were kept in place permanently. An eye-bolt is a bolt that has a projecting end formed in the shnpe of a ring for the purpose of hooking a tackle or at taching a rope. Eyelets, or eylet-holes, are small circular holes in sails, awnings, etc., through
which pass small ropes. An eye-splice is an eye formed at the end of a rope by separating the strands at the end and sticking them between the strands in a special manner at the proper place.
EYE, Ve, AUCUST VON (1825-96). A German art historian, born at Fiirstenan, Hanover, May 24, 1825, and educated at Gilttingen. He wrote valuable works on ancient and modern art and on philosophical subjects. Ile died at Nordhausen January 13, 1896. The best-known of his works is his Leben Werke?! Albrecht Diirers (N6rd lingen, ISCO). Ile also edited a number of inns trated works treating the history of art and cut lure, among which were: Galleric der Meister werke altdcutsrher Holzschneidckun•t (Nurem berg, 1858-6I ) ; Deutschland ror 9011 Jaren in Gcben vnd Kunst (Leipzig. 1857) ; Nuns( toy, Lawn der Vorz'cit (Nuremberg, 186S). His grin eipal philosophical work is Das Reich des Schonen (1878).