/wawl"uyd'/ , adj.
1. having eyes in which there is an abnormal amount of the white showing, because of divergent strabismus.
2. having large, staring eyes, as some fishes.
3. marked by excited or agitated staring of the eyes, as in fear, rage, frenzy, or the like: He stood there in walleyed astonishment.
4. having an eye or the eyes presenting little or no color, as the result of a light-colored or white iris or of white opacity of the cornea.
[ 1300-50; ME wawileghed, waugle eghed vagleygr, equiv. to vagl- (meaning uncert.; cf. Icel vagl film over the eye) + -eygr -eyed; see EYE; cf. OE waldenige ]