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Webster 1913 Edition
Wall-eye
1.
An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; – said usually of horses.
Booth.
☞ 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. 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
. Webster 1828 Edition
Wall-eye
WALL-EYE
,Noun.
1.
A disease in the crystaline humor of the eye; the glaucoma.2.
In horses, an eye in which the iris is of a very light gray color.