blear

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Dim

   Dim; unclear from water or rheum.

   • A Promontory Wen, with grieſly grace, Stood high, upon the Handle of his Face: His blear Eyes ran in gutters to his Chin: His Beard was stubble, and his Cheeks were thin.
   • The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren’s left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
2. 2

   Causing or caused by dimness of sight.

   • Thus I hurle My dazling spells into the ſpungie aire Of power to cheate the eye with bleare illuſion, And give it falſe preſentments, […]
3. 3

   To be blear

   To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.

   • The street-lamps blearing thro’ the rainy rout, Each like a winking, sickly evil-eye.
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   1. 4

      To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.

      • your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:
      • Here’s Lucentio, right ſonne to the right Vincentio, That haue by marriage made thy daughter mine, While counterfeit ſuppoſes bleer’d thine eine.
   2. 5

      To blur, make blurry.

      • When winter blears bleakly the forest, And the water binds gray to its blue, Safe and sound in her covert I leave her, Till spring calls again my canoe.
      • He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.
   3. 6

      Alternative form of blare

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