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wall-eyed
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Wall-eyed
(gcide) | Wall-eyed \Wall"-eyed`\, a. [Icel. valdeyg[eth]r, or vagleygr;
fr. vagl a beam, a beam in the eye (akin to Sw. vagel a
roost, a perch, a sty in the eye) + eygr having eyes (from
auga eye). See Eye.]
Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. --Booth.
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Note: Shakespeare, in using wall-eyed as a term of reproach
(as "wall-eyed rage," a "wall-eyed wretch"), alludes
probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision.
See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is
utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no
pity.
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wall-eyed
(encz) | wall-eyed, |
wall-eyed herring
(gcide) | Wall-eye \Wall"-eye`\, n. [See Wall-eyed.]
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1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or
whitish color; -- said usually of horses. --Booth.
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Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the
crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma
is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is
wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural
blemish. --Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett
states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white
of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) An American fresh-water food fish ({Stizostedion
vitreum}) having large and prominent eyes; -- called
also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and
wall-eyed perch.
(b) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).
(c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
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wall-eyed perch
(gcide) | Wall-eye \Wall"-eye`\, n. [See Wall-eyed.]
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1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or
whitish color; -- said usually of horses. --Booth.
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Note: Jonson has defined wall-eye to be "a disease in the
crystalline humor of the eye; glaucoma." But glaucoma
is not a disease of the crystalline humor, nor is
wall-eye a disease at all, but merely a natural
blemish. --Tully. In the north of England, as Brockett
states, persons are said to be wall-eyed when the white
of the eye is very large and distorted, or on one side.
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2. (Zool.)
(a) An American fresh-water food fish ({Stizostedion
vitreum}) having large and prominent eyes; -- called
also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and
wall-eyed perch.
(b) A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).
(c) The alewife; -- called also wall-eyed herring.
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