Crossword-Solution: MYOPE 5 letters, 23 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

His face, which was clean shaven, was the face of a hawk, with the contracted myope vision characteristic of that bird.

See Myope.] (Med.) Defn: Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image.

The ordinary man--that tame myope who gratefully accepts life as it is--contentedly exists in squares, crescents and straight lines; breathing the common air and never worrying at all whether his house, which may be number 246, has individuality or not.

But I can vouch for one case where a slight absolute divergent squint, with crossed diplopia, which I treated shortly after its origin in a youthful myope, with prismatic spectacles, soon disappeared, and remained permanently cured.

And since the perception of details depends vastly upon the quality of eyesight, a landscape necessarily suggests less to the keen-sighted man than to the myope.