Category:Wall-eyed

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.]

Defn: 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.