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wall eye, wall-eye|ˈwɔːlˈaɪ, ˈwɔːlaɪ|
Also 6 walowe yee, whal eie, 7 whall, waled eye, 20 walleye.
[Back-formation from wall-eyed a. In sense 1 pronounced with level stress, the first element being apprehended as an adj.]
1. An eye the iris of which is whitish, streaked, particoloured, or different in hue from the other eye, or which has a divergent squint. (See wall-eyed a. 1.)
a. in human beings.
1526Hundred Merry Tales (1866) 91, I haue a wall eye in my hed, for I neuer loke ouer my sholder this wyse but I lyghtly espye a knaue. 1599B. Jonson Cynthia's Rev. v. ii, Two Wall-eyes, in a face forced. 1694Lond. Gaz. No. 2965/4 He had..one Eye bigger than the other, and divers in colour, being a Hazel or Wall Eye. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxv, Whose gaunt visage and wall-eyes assumed a most hostile aspect. 1826― Woodst. xi, Desborough was a stout bull-necked man, of middle size, with..bushy eyebrows, and wall-eyes. 1828Craven Gloss., Wall-een, white or grey eyes. 1850R. G. Cumming Hunter's Life S. Afr. (ed. 2) I. 239 A jolly-looking old warrior with a wall eye. 1893F. C. Selous Trav. S.E. Africa 61 He was deeply pitted with smallpox, and had, too, a wall eye. 1899Baring-Gould Bk. of West I. vii. 110 She was an ill-favoured person, with a wall-eye.
b. in horses, etc.
1523Will of Burton (Somerset Ho.) A blak mare with one walowe yee. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iii. 115 A wall eye is very good, such as they say Alexanders Bucephalus had. 1607Markham Cavel. i. 16 They are for the most part pied, with white legges, and wall eyes. 1616Maldon (Essex) Borough Deeds Bundle 147, no. 6 A hewen [= hue and] cry sent out from Colchester [for] two randed geldings one of them with a waled eye. 1667Lond. Gaz. No. 207/4 Lost..a Yorkshire Buck-hound, having black spots upon his back, red ears and a wall-eye. 1702Post Man 6–8 Jan. 2/2 Stoln out of a Stable,..a black Gelding,..a white face, Wall Eyes, and 4 white Feet. 1787‘G. Gambado’ Acad. Horsem. (1809) 23 A bald face, wall eyes, and white legs (if your horse is not a grey one) is to be perferr'd. 1822–9Good Study Med. IV. 202 In horses, this want of pigment constitutes what is called a wall-eye. 1849Lever Con Cregan xx, ‘I know your mark.’ ‘My roan, with the wall-eye. You don't mind a wall-eye?’
¶c. App. misused for ‘blind eye’.
1866Sat. Rev. 25 Aug. 229/2 Honour..never goes about apparently without one wall-eye, and it is a chance and an accident on which side of the road the wall-eye may be fixed.
2. The condition of being wall-eyed.
1585Higins Junius' Nomencl. 428/1 Glaucoma,..a disease in the eye,..some think it to be a whal eie.
3. An animal that is wall-eyed. In N. Amer. a name for various fishes, esp. the wall-eyed pike, Stizostedion vitreum: see wall-eyed 3.
[13..: see waldeneie.] 1876Fur, Fin & Feather Sept. 163/1 All along the Minnesota Division are numerous clear lakes and ponds, teeming with..‘wall-eyes’ or pike-perch. 1888Goode Amer. Fishes 17 The Wall-eye does not often exceed ten pounds in weight. 1968[see musky n.2]. 1982Nature 16 Sept. 202/2 Walleye fish, Stizostedion, eat each other ‘tail first’, and chains of up to four fish engaged in simultaneous cannibalism have been seen. |