Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having a pearl-eye; afflicted with cataract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Having a pearly speck in the eye; afflicted with a cataract or cataracts.
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Examples
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She bucks and flops on the floor turning purple while Toto goes pearl-eyed, twists off the toilet in a slow slide and his big head hits the tile floor with a hollow thunk.
Gorgeous World 2009
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Five minutes afterwards the Americans found themselves seated at a table garlanded with red-berried holly, trailing ivy, and pearl-eyed mistletoe, and surrounded by a round dozen of Farrars, including several youngsters whose general place was in schoolroom or nursery, but who, even to a tot of three, were promoted to dine in splendor on Christmas
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