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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 3

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A strained or affected rolling of the eye.

2. A kind of spectacles with short, projecting eye tubes, in the front end of which are fixed plain glasses for protecting the eyes from cold, dust, etc.

3. Colored glasses for relief from intense light.

4. A disk with a small aperture, to direct the sight forward, and cure squinting.

5. Any screen or cover for the eyes, with or without a slit for seeing through.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 3

Part of speech: verb (v.)

To roll the eyes; to stare. And wink and goggle like an owl. Hudibras.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 3 of 3

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Full and rolling, or staring; -- said of the eyes. The long, sallow vissage, the goggle eyes. Sir W. Scott.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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