glasseye

See also: glass eye

English

Etymology

glass + eye

Noun

glasseye (plural glasseyes)

  1. A fish, the walleyed pike.
  2. A form of blindness in horses in which the eye is bright and the pupil dilated; a sort of amaurosis.
    • 1831-1850, William Youatt, On the Structure and the Diseases of the Horse
      Another species of blindness , and of which mention was made when describing the retina , is Gutta Serena , commonly called glass eye. The pupil is more than usually dilated : it is immovable , and bright , and glassy .

References

glasseye”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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