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Definition: WALL-EYED |
WALL-EYEDAdjective1. Having an eye of a very light gray or whitish color. |
Date "WALL-EYED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1861. (references) |
Etymology: Wall-eyed \Wall"-eyed`\, adjective. [Icel. valdeyg[eth]r, or vagleygr; from vagl beam, beam in the eye (akin to Swedish vagel roost, perch, sty in the eye) eygr having eyes (from auga eye). See Eye.]. (Websters 1913) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Wall-eyed properly means "withered-eyed." Persons are wall-eyed when the white is unusually large, and the sight defective; hence Shakespeare has wall-eyed wrath, wall-eyed slave, etc. When King John says, "My rage was blind, " he virtually says his "wrath was wall-eyed." (Saxon, hwelan, to wither. The word is often written whall-eyed, or whallied, from the verb whally.). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: WALL-EYED |
| English words defined with "WALL-EYED": Glasseye ♦ jack salmon ♦ Wall-eye. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "WALL-EYED": Wall-eye. (references) |
| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Plate 169. The Wall-Eyed Pike or Dory. Stizostedium vitreum (Mitch.), Jordan and Copeland. The Sauger or Land Pike. Stizostedium canadense (Smith), Jordan.Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection. |
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| "WALL-EYED" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WALL-EYED" is used about 2 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 100% | 2 | 245,945 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "WALL-EYED"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||
Manx | breck-hooillagh (spotty-eyed). (various references) | ||||||||||
Pig Latin | all-eyedway có vảy cá ở mắt. (various references) | ||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | Stizostedion vitreum vitreum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: walleyed. | |
| Words within the letters "a-d-e-e-l-l-w-y" | |
-1 letter: walleye. | |
-2 letters: leeway, lewdly, walled, welled, yawled, yelled. | |
-3 letters: allee, alley, dally, delay, delly, dwell, ladle, lawed, layed, leady, waled, wally, weald, wedel, weedy, welly, wyled, yawed. | |
-4 letters: alee, ally, awed, awee, dale, deal, dele, dell, dewy, eely, eyed, lade, lady, lead, leal, lewd, wade, wady, wale, wall, waly, weal, weed, weel, weld, well. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-d-e-e-l-l-w-y" | |
+5 letters: knowledgeably. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)57 41 4C 4C 2D 45 59 45 44 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010111 01000001 01001100 01001100 00101101 01000101 01011001 01000101 01000100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)W A L L - E Y E D |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0057 0041 004C 004C 002D 0045 0059 0045 0044 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)573546461539593938 |
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