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Wall-eye   /wɔl-aɪ/   Listen
noun
Wall-eye  n.  
1.
An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; said usually of horses. 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. 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.
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.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Wall-eye" Quotes from Famous Books



... trail was impassible for wagons beyond Toma's place, and ceased altogether at Caribou Lake. They counted on the boat to carry them as far as the lake; there, Pierre Toma had assured them, they might very likely overtake the Bishop, if he were delayed by contrary winds, or christenings. In any case Wall-eye Macgregor, said Pierre, had a strong boat at the lake that could take them the eighty miles across. According to the haphazard measurements of the breeds, Caribou Lake was twenty-five ...
— Two on the Trail - A Story of the Far Northwest • Hulbert Footner

... the hero of the TAIL. This was one of the ugliest and most ill-conditioned curs which had ever been produced: ugly in colour; for he was of a dirty yellow, like the paint served out to decorate our men-of-war by his Majesty's dockyards;—ugly in face; for he had one wall-eye, and was so far under-jawed as to prove that a bull-dog had had something to do with his creation;—ugly in shape; for although larger than a pointer, and strongly built, he was coarse and shambling in his make, with his fore legs bowed out. His ears and tail had never ...
— Snarley-yow - or The Dog Fiend • Frederick Marryat



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