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Webster 1913 Edition
Wall-eyed
Wall′-eyedˊ
,Adj.
[Icel.
valdeygðr
, 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.
☞ 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. Webster 1828 Edition
Wall-eyed
WALL-EYED
,Adj.