Wall-eye: Definition and part of speech

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Wall-eye

  1. n. The alewife; — called also wall-eyed herring.
  2. n. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; — said usually of horses.
  3. n. An American fresh-water food fish (Stizostedion vitreum) having large and prominent eyes; — called also glasseye, pike perch, yellow pike, and wall-eyed perch.
  4. n. A California surf fish (Holconotus argenteus).

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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