WALLEYED

walleyed

(adjective) having divergent strabismus

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Adjective

walleyed (comparative more walleyed, superlative most walleyed)

having eyes with a pale-coloured iris

having eyes of different colours

suffering from exotropia

(of fish) having bulging eyes

Source: Wiktionary


Wall"-eyed`, a. Etym: [Icel. valdeygedhr, or vagleygr; fr. vagl a beam, a beam in the eye (akin to Sw. vagel a roost, a perch, a sty in the eye) + eygr having eyes (from auga eye). See Eye.]

Definition: Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. Booth.

Note: Shakespeare, in using wall-eyed as a term of reproach (as "wall-eyed rage," a "wall-eyed wretch"), alludes probably to the idea of unnatural or distorted vision. See the Note under Wall-eye. It is an eye which is utterly and incurably perverted, an eye that knows no pity.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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