Words similar to eyelid

Example sentences for: eyelid

How can you use “eyelid” in a sentence? Here are some example sentences to help you improve your vocabulary:

Gaelic rosc (alternating with rasg ) means eyelid and eyelash, as well as eye.
Bauby, who was almost completely paralyzed by a stroke, dictated the book letter by letter, blinking his left eyelid as someone read through the alphabet over and over.
Welsh has a word for brow ( ael ) and a word for lid ( amrant ), but, although there is an expression meaning eyelash, it is a phrase: blew yr amrant (hair of the eyelid, reminiscent of Lat palpebrārum pilus ).
Latin had terms for eyebrow and eyelid that were the sources of the French ones (Lat supercilium and palebra ), but eyelash evidently caused trouble.
I am trying to find out whether they can say eyelid itself, sans upper or lower.