Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An eye affected, or supposed to be affected, by the moon.
- noun A disease of the eye in horses.
- noun A name of several fishes.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
- noun Any species of American fresh-water fishes of the genus Hyodon, esp.
Hyodon tergisus of the Great Lakes and adjacent waters. - noun The cisco.
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- noun recurrent eye inflammation in horses; sometimes resulting in blindness
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Examples
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Many coloured shine the vapours: to the moon-eye far away
A Vision of Beauty A. E. 1913
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My lord with the moon-eye, making inquiries about the N'bosini, came to the Ochori and I told him much that he wrote down in a book.
Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903
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M'ilitani, that I am not to blame, because my lord with the moon-eye wrote down these things.
Bones Being Further Adventures in Mr. Commissioner Sanders' Country Edgar Wallace 1903
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(though George says that gar, moon-eye, and paddlefish are even lower -- piscine untouchables).
In the Monster's Maw 1997
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