Other forms: eyelids
An eyelid is the fold of skin that closes over your eye. Heavy eyelids, a drooping eyelid, close your eyelids.
The skin there is the thinnest on the body, which is why it shows tiredness first. Blinking spreads tears across the eye and takes a third of a second, and the eyelid does it perhaps fifteen thousand times a day without your noticing once.
1nouneyelidThe fold of skin that closes over your eye.
“Her eyelids grew heavy, and soon she was fast asleep.”
eyelid is a body part.
From an unrecorded Old English compound of eye and lid, from a Germanic root meaning a cover.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱley-
Proto-West Germanic
*augahlid — eyelid
Old English
*ēaghlid — eyelid
Middle English
eyelidd
English, today
eyelid
From Middle English eyelidd, eye-led, eiȝelid, eghe-lydd, yȝe-lydd, ehlid, yhelidd, from an unrecorded Old English ēaghlid (“eyelid”), from Proto-West Germanic augahlid (“eyelid”), equivalent to eye + lid. Cognate with stq Oogenlid (“eyelid”), West Frisian eachlid (“eyelid”), Dutch ooglid (“eyelid”), German Low German Ooglidd (“eyelid”), German Augenlid (“eyelid”). Generally superseded non-native Middle English palpebre (“eyelid”), borrowed from Latin palpebra (“eyelid”) (see Modern English palpebra).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA