Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An eye in a condition in which it presents little or no color, the iris being light-colored or white, or opacity of the cornea being present; also, this condition itself.
- noun Divergent strabismus, in which the white of the eye is conspicuous.
- noun A large staring eye, as of some fishes.
- noun A wall-eyed fish.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses.
- noun An American fresh-water food fish (
Stizostedion vitreum ) having large and prominent eyes; -- called alsoglasseye ,pike perch ,yellow pike , andwall-eyed perch . - noun A California surf fish (
Holconotus argenteus ). - noun The alewife; -- called also
wall-eyed herring .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun pike-like freshwater perches
- noun strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward
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Examples
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The only good time was naptime and the rough-haired girl with one wall-eye and no other friends but me—
Memoir Matt Dennison 2012
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Camp in a quiet aspen grove, at the edge of one of the continent's best wall-eye, pike, and smallmouth fisheries.
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Any firm-fleshed, coldwater fish, such as wall-eye and pike, will work well here. —
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So I stood up, not knowing what was coming next and surely expecting some pitiful country girl with at least one wall-eye and buck teeth parallel to the ground.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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So I stood up, not knowing what was coming next and surely expecting some pitiful country girl with at least one wall-eye and buck teeth parallel to the ground.
Noble Norfleet Reynolds Price 2002
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Calliopus even claimed Iddibal had had a wall-eye.
Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998
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He kicked at Loup's knee, but the deep water impeded him and he almost fell and opened himself to a scything swing of Loup's straight sword, but Sharpe recovered at the last moment and deflected the blow with the hilt of his sword which he rammed forward at Loup's wall-eye.
Sharpe's Battle Cornwell, Bernard 1995
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He had a wall-eye — immobile and paler than the other, almost transparent; it made you feel embarrassed when he looked at you.
Maigret and the Lazy Burglar Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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Allied to the perches is the pike-perch, of which two species are of some importance to the angler, one the wall-eye of eastern
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1 Various
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It wasn't the eye he lost saving Campbell -- it was the old wall-eye he used to use in the days before he was called 'One-eyed Bogan.'
Children of the Bush Henry Lawson 1894
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