whally

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈʍɔːlɪ/, /ˈwɔːlɪ/

Adjective

whally (comparative more whally, superlative most whally)

  1. (possibly obsolete) 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) […]
    • 1627(?), Richard Niccols, The beggers ape, page 14:
      Yet he with whally eyes and shaggy beard
    • 1970 [????], Henry Williamson, Collected Nature Stories, page 206:
      One of her eyes was whally, the other was inscrutable.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

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