Wall"-eyed` (?), a. [Icel.
valdeygðr, 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.
&fist; 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.
Wall"-eyed` (?), a. [Icel.
valdeygðr, 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.
&fist; 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.