moon-eyedadj.

1610 G. Markham Maister-peece ii. xii. 239 I haue seene many a slothfull and heauy horse brought to be moone eyed by the folly of his rider.

1788 A. Young Jrnl. 9 Aug. in Trav. France (1792) i. 75 The English mare that carries me..is going rapidly blind. She is moon-eyed.

1821 Sporting Mag. 8 202 George Parker on his examination found that she was ‘moon-eyed’.

1889 ‘C. E. Craddock’ Despot Broomsedge Cove vi. 105 Do ye know ennything 'bout'n a horse's eyes? I be sort'n 'feard he's moon-eyed, or suthin'.

1905 A. Adams Outlet 21 Tolleston took the only blind horse in the herd... At the time of his purchase, no one could see anything in the eyeball which would indicate he was moon-eyed.

1972 Let. in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 651/2 [Georgia] A Blinker—a horse with poor eyesight also called ‘moon-eyed’.

1623 J. Webster Deuils Law-case i. ii. 53 Too much light makes you moon-eyed.

1688 J. Dryden Britannia Rediviva 4 So manifest, that ev'n the Moon-ey'd Sects See Whom and What this Providence protects.

1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I Moon eyed, lusciosus, luscitiosus.

1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Moon-eyed hen, a squinting wench.

1886 R. E. G. Cole Gloss. Words S.-W. Lincs. 93 Old Jane, his first wife, was moon-eyed. When folks are moon-eyed, they have to gleg at you (look askance) out of the corner of the eye.

1912 Dial. Notes 3 583 Moon-eyed, half-blind.

1699 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 21 51 From their seeing so clear as they do in a moon-shiny night, we used to call them moon-eyed.

1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Moon-eyed or Owl-eyed, that can see better at Night, than by Day.

1797 New Ann. Reg. 1796 Poetry 166 Or whether blinded by the solar glare, The moon-ey'd Indian..to balsam groves repair.

1817 G. Field Chromatics (1845) §335. 165 That kind of nyctalophia [sic] called moon-eyed, which is common to the Bushmen of Southern Africa, who sleep out the day, and are blind when the sun shines, but..see well in seeming darkness.

1934 M. K. Rawlings South Moon Under 287 I've got to where I'm moon-eyed, Kezzy. I cain't hardly see, day-times, but when the moon's bright I kin see mighty plain.

1940 Georgia: Guide to Towns & Countryside (Federal Writers' Project) 326 A Cherokee myth about the ‘moon-eyed folk’, a strange white people who could see only at night.

1790 J. Wolcot Compl. Epist. to Bruce in Wks. (1812) II. 358 Moon-eyed Wonder opes her lap to thee.

1799 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope & Other Poems ii. 265 Fly, like the moon-ey'd herald of Dismay, Chased on his night-steed by the star of day.

1873 J. Miller Life amongst Modocs v. 64 There was a little Chinaman, tawny, moon-eyed, and silent, sitting by the bed.

1972 G. Lucas et al. Amer. Graffiti (film script) 72 (stage direct.) Carol watches him, moon-eyed and obviously flipped about him.

1992 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) May 144/3 The apple-cheeked, moon-eyed wife of the governor, staggeringly poised, effortlessly articulate, primly silk-scarved.