noun
- Rays of light that are imagined to stream from the eyes; a poetic or literary term for the gaze or look of a person.
Usage: archaic; literary; chiefly poetic
Examples
- Her eyebeams met his across the crowded room.
- The lover's eyebeams burned with passion in the Renaissance sonnet.
- His eyebeams were fixed upon the distant horizon.
- The poet described how her eyebeams could pierce the darkness.
- In old literature, eyebeams often symbolized the power of attraction between two people.