If any speculative manager pretends that he has a better hypothetical cast in his eye than the present cast of the Lancers, let him be given to the surgical tormentors to be operated upon for malignant strabismus.

Breathes there a man so tortuously afflicted with Strabismus that he doesn't see it?

When, for any cause, the coördination is faulty, "cross eye," technically called strabismus, is produced.

[Fallacies of vision.] N. dim sight, dull sight half sight, short sight, near sight, long sight, double sight, astigmatic sight, failing sight; dimsightedness &c; purblindness, lippitude^; myopia, presbyopia^; confusion of vision; astigmatism; color blindness, chromato pseudo blepsis^, Daltonism; nyctalopia^; strabismus, strabism^, squint; blearedness^, day blindness, hemeralopia^, nystagmus; xanthocyanopia^, xanthopsia

Among other things the right of trial by his peers was granted to the freeman; and so, out of the mental and moral chaos and general strabismus of royal justice, everlasting truth and human rights arose.

He speaks of it as "strabismus," which sounds very learned of course, and he goes on to explain that in actual fact this is not a bad thing, for he can preach very directly at his congregation, and no one will think the preacher has him particularly in his eye.