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Walleye - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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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.
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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Walleye : Walleye: 1. A dense white opacity (leukoma) of the eye turns outward away from the nose. 3. Large staring eyes, like those of certain fish such as the pike.
All of these meanings relate to the walleyed pike, a freshwater perch. When the walleyed pike is dead, its large divergent eyes quickly become opaquely white. Based on the Old Norse "vagl-eygr," from
"vagl" (beam) and "eygr" (eyed).
Based on Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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