| Wall-eye | n. [ See Wall-eyed. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. An eye in which the iris is of a very light gray or whitish color; -- said usually of horses. Booth. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| 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. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ 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. [ 1913 Webster ] |
| Valley | n.; pl. Valleys [ OE. vale, valeie, OF. valée, valede, F. vallée, LL. vallata, L. vallis, valles. See Vale. ] [ 1913 Webster ] 1. The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively. [ 1913 Webster ] The valley of the shadow of death. Ps. xxiii. 4. [ 1913 Webster ] Sweet interchange
Of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ] ☞ Deep and narrow valleys with abrupt sides are usually the results of erosion by water, and are called gorges, ravines, canyons, gulches, etc. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. (Arch.) (a) The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle. (b) The depression formed by the meeting of two slopes on a flat roof. [ 1913 Webster ]
Valley board (Arch.), a board for the reception of the lead gutter in the valley of a roof. The valley board and lead gutter are not usual in the United States. --
Valley rafter, or
Valley piece (Arch.), the rafter which supports the valley. --
Valley roof (Arch.), a roof having one or more valleys. See Valley, 2, above. [ 1913 Webster ]
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