after-eye

English

Etymology

From after- +‎ eye.

Verb

after-eye (third-person singular simple present after-eyes, present participle after-eyeing or after-eying, simple past and past participle after-eyed)

(transitive, obsolete) To keep in view or sight.
- 1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene iii]:
  Thou shouldst have made him
  As little as a crow, or less, ere left
  To after-eye him.

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