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Wall v.4. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1928, rev. 2024. Wall v.4 Now only U.S. Also 5–9 Sc. waul(e, wawl(e, 5–6 Sc. (? erron.) waill. [MSc. wawle:—*waȝle, related to waȝl- in WALL-EYED a.] trans. To roll (the eyes). Also absol., and intr. of the eyes. Hence Walling ppl. a. (Sc. waulen’).

1 c. 1480.  Henryson, Cock & Fox, 469. The Cok … Vnwarlie winkand, wawland vp and doun.

2 c. 1500.  in Makculloch MS. (S.T.S.), iv. 27. Cuttis for þi cot þai kest … out throw þi harnis þe pykis of thorne apliit, wawland [MS. Arundel wailland] þi ene.

3 1513.  Douglas, Æneis, VIII. vii. 154. In the breist of the goddes graif thai Gorgones heid,… Wyth ene wauland [L. vertentem lumina].

4 1818.  Edin. Mag., Oct., 328/2. The sicht forhow’t her waulen’ een, Sho lay in the deadthraws.

5 1821.  Scott, Pirate, xxx. But presently recovering himself, he wawls on me with his gray een, like a wild-cat.

6 1817.  Hogg, Gude Greye Katt, xxvii. in Poetic Mirror (1817), 196. Quhill ilken bosome byrnit with lufe, And waulit ilken ee.

7 1876.  ‘Mark Twain,’ Tom Sawyer, v. The ladies would lift up their hands,… and ‘wall’ their eyes, and shake their heads.

8 1883.  Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc., 55. Wall the eyes, that is, ‘to roll the eyes so as to show the white.’ I can remember this as a very common way among the little negroes in South Carolina of showing displeasure.

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