eye socket

the socket or orbit of the eye.

Origin of eye socket

First recorded in 1835–45

I dubbed him the King of the Eye-Socket school, and instead of getting angry he actually thanked me for it.

The Prairie Wife |Arthur Stringer
He walked with cautious steps, feeling his way with a staff, down to the seaside, to wash his eye-socket in the waves.

The Classic Myths in English Literature and in Art (2nd ed.) (1911) |Charles Mills Gayley
That thumb, feeling eagerly for his eye-socket, woke Bob to a new world.

The Rules of the Game |Stewart Edward White
Shaped like an eye-socket, and shut in on every side by precipitous rock walls, the gulf looked at first sight inaccessible.

Renshaw Fanning's Quest |Bertram Mitford

Muzzle shorter than the diameter of the eye-socket; the bony palate not extending past the hinder end of the median molar.

A Hand-book to the Primates, Volume 1 (of 2) |Henry O. Forbes

eye socket

the nontechnical name for orbit (def. 3)

eye socket

orbital cavity