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Found 2 hits - Term: wall-eyed, Database: *, Strategy: exact
[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
wall-eyed \wall"-eyed`\, a. icel. valdeygethr, 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.
   having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. --booth.
   1913 webster

   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.
         1913 webster
see also:
eye wall-eye 
[2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
walleyed
     adj : having divergent strabismus ant: cross-eyed
see also:
cross-eyed 

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