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

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 walleye
      n 1: strabismus in which one or both eyes are directed outward
           [syn: divergent strabismus, exotropia]
      2: pike-like freshwater perches [syn: walleyed pike, {jack
         salmon, Stizostedion vitreum]