whally
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whally (comparative more whally, superlative most whally)
- (of horses) Having a light-coloured iris of the eye.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And next to him rode lustfull Lechery,
Vpon a bearded Goat , whose rugged haire ,
And whally eyes ( the signe of gelosy )
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “whally”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)