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 also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-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

  • 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

  • Camp in a quiet aspen grove, at the edge of one of the continent's best wall-eye, pike, and smallmouth fisheries.

    The 10 Best State Parks for Fishing in the USA 2004

  • Any firm-fleshed, coldwater fish, such as wall-eye and pike, will work well here. —

    A Recipe for Beer-Batter Walleye or Pike 2004

  • 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

  • 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

  • Calliopus even claimed Iddibal had had a wall-eye.

    Two For The Lions Davis, Lindsey 1998

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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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