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单词 walleye
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walleyen.

Brit. /ˈwɔːlʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈwɔlˌaɪ/, /ˈwɑlˌaɪ/
Forms: Also 1500s walowe yee, whal eie, 1600s whall, waled eye, 1900s walleye.
Etymology: Back-formation < wall-eyed adj. In sense 1 pronounced with level stress, the first element being apprehended as an adjective.
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 adj. 1.)
a. in human beings.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of eyes > eye
walleye1526
ringeyea1712
ringle eye1712
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > squinting or cross-eyes > squinting eye
walleye1526
cockeye1738
swivel eye1765
gimlet-eye1825
squinter1873
1526 Hundred 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.
1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iii, in Wks. I. 239 Two Wall-eyes, in a face forced.
1694 London Gaz. No. 2965/4 He had..one Eye bigger than the other, and divers in colour, being a Hazel or Wall Eye.
1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 236 Whose gaunt visage and wall-eyes assumed a most hostile aspect.
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. xi. 269 Desborough was a stout, bull-necked man, of middle size, with..bushy eyebrows, and wall-eyes.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Wall-een, white or grey eyes.
1850 R. Gordon-Cumming Five Years Hunter's Life S. Afr. I. xi. 239 A jolly-looking old warrior with a wall eye.
1893 F. C. Selous Trav. S.-E. Afr. 61 He was deeply pitted with smallpox, and had, too, a wall eye.
1899 S. Baring-Gould Bk. of West I. vii. 110 She was an ill-favoured person, with a wall-eye.
b. in horses, etc.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of horses > [noun] > disorders of eyes
walleye1523
lunacy1600
moon-eye1607
eyes of wall1611
dragon1639
moon blindnessc1720
moonc1721
glass eye1831
pink-eye1855
1523 Will of Richard Burton (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/21) f. 46 A blak mare with one walowe yee.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry iii. f. 115 A wall eye is very good, such as they say Alexanders Bucephalus had.
1607 G. Markham Cavelarice i. 16 They are for the most part pied, with white legges, and wall eyes.
1616 Maldon (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.
1667 London Gaz. No. 207/4 Lost..a Yorkshire Buck-hound, having black spots upon his back, red ears and a wall-eye.
1702 Post 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. Horsemen 6 A bald face, wall eyes, and white legs (if your horse is not a grey one) is to be perferr'd.
1822 J. M. Good Study Med. III. 201 In horses this want of pigment constitutes what is called a wall-eye.
1849 C. J. Lever Confessions Con Cregan I. xx. 316 ‘I know your mark.’ ‘My roan, with the wall-eye. You don't mind a wall-eye?’
c. Apparently misused for ‘blind eye’.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > blind eye
Hannibal eyea1652
walleye1866
1866 Sat. 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.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > deformity > deformities of specific parts > [noun] > of eyes
walleye1585
microphthalmy1721
microphthalmos1845
feather1847
cyclopia1849
heterophthalmy1854
irideremia1855
aniridia1860
aphakia1864
heterochromia1889
microphthalmia1890
anisocoria1902
hypertelorism1924
1585 J. Higgins tr. Junius Nomenclator 428/1 Glaucoma,..a disease in the eye,..some think it to be a whal eie.
3. An animal that is wall-eyed. In North America a name for various fishes, esp. the wall-eyed pike, Stizostedion vitreum: see wall-eyed adj. 3.
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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > family Percidae (perches) > [noun] > genus Stizostedion (pike-perches) > stizostedion vitreum (wall-eye)
pickerel1709
jack salmon1850
wall-eyed pike1869
walleye1888
spike-nose1891
blow-fish1893
13.. Names of Hare in MS. Digby 86, f. 168 b Þe purblinde..þe waldeneie, þe sidlokere.]
1888 G. B. Goode Amer. Fishes 17 The Wall-eye does not often exceed ten pounds in weight.
1968 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Feb. 40/1 They recaptured these previously marked fish: 13 walleyes, three smallmouth bass, 11 largemouth bass, but not one musky.
1982 Nature 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.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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