Wall'-eye, n.

(waw'l), n. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color;—said usually of horses. Booth.

Johnson 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. Richardson derives wall in this case, and also whall, whally, whally-eyed, from the Anglo-Saxon hwelan, to wither, to pine away—in allusion to the faded color or unnatural appearance of such eyes.