Lynx-eyed.

Having as keen a sight as a lynx. Some think the word lynx is a perversion of Lynceus. (See above.)

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

Lydian Poet (The)
Lying Traveller (The)
Lying by the Wall
Lying for the Whetstone
Lyme-hound
Lynceus
Lynch Law
Lynch-pin
Lynchnobians
Lynx
Lynx-eyed
Lyon King-of-Arms
Lyonnesse
Lyre (The)
Lysander and Rosicrucius
Lyttelton
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