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glasseye |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Wall-eye \Wall"-eye`\, n. [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. (Zo["o]l.) 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}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Glasseye \Glass"eye`\, n. 1. (Zo["o]l.) A fish of the great lakes; the wall-eyed pike. 2. (Far.) A species of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis. --Youatt.
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