Category:Wall-eye

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.