Noun
The fringe of hair that edges the eyelid; -- usually in the pl.
A hair of the fringe on the edge of the eyelid.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIn war, you win or lose, live or die - and the difference is just an eyelash. Douglas MacArthur
The password is a flicker of an eyelash. Adrienne Rich
We still name our military helicopter gunships after victims of genocide. Nobody bats an eyelash about that: Blackhawk. Apache. And Comanche. If the Luftwaffe named its military helicopters Jew and Gypsy, I suppose people would notice. Noam Chomsky
Wild air, world-mothering air, Nestling me everywhere, That each eyelash or hair Girdles; goes home betwixt The fleeciest, frailest-fixed Snowflake; that's fairly mixed With, riddles, and is rife In every least thing's life. Gerard Manley Hopkins
I had no desire to be an film actress, to always play somebody else, to be always beautiful with somebody constantly straightening out your every eyelash. It was always a big bother to me. Marlene Dietrich
He can't see the beam in his own, but he's looking for an eyelash in someone else's. Azerbaijani Proverb