Word Study
Wall-eye
CIDE DICTIONARY
Wall-eye, n. [See Wall-eyed.].
- An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth. [1913 Webster]" 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." [1913 Webster] - An American fresh-water food fish (
Stizostedion vitreum ) having large and prominent eyes; -- called alsoglasseye ,pike perch ,yellow pike , andwall-eyed perch . [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
Wall-eye, n.
1 a an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris. b an eye squinting outwards.
2 an American perch, Stizostedion vitreum, with large prominent eyes.
1 a an eye with a streaked or opaque white iris. b an eye squinting outwards.
2 an American perch, Stizostedion vitreum, with large prominent eyes.
Derivative
wall-eyed adj.
Etymology
back-form. f. wall-eyed: ME f. ON vagleygr f. vagl (unrecorded: cf. Icel. vagl film over the eye) + auga EYE
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