The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
WALLEYE
walleye, walleyed pike, jack salmon, dory, Stizostedion vitreum
(noun) pike-like freshwater perches
walleye, divergent strabismus, exotropia
(noun) strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward
Source: WordNet® 3.1
Noun
walleye (plural walleyes or walleye)
(plural "walleyes") One or a pair of sideways-looking misaligned eyes.
(plural "walleyes") An unusually pale eye.
(plural "walleye" or "walleyes") A species of gamefish, Sander vitreus, native to the Northern U.S. and Canada with pale, reflective eyes.
Synonyms
• (Sander vitreus): walleyed pike colored pike, yellow pike, pickerel, Stizostedion vitreum
Anagrams
• eyewall
Source: Wiktionary
Wall"-eye`, n. Etym: [See Wall-eyed.]
1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color;
– said usually of horses. Booth.
Note: 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. (Zoöl.) (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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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