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Webster 1913 Edition

Blear

Blear

,
Adj.
[See
Blear
,
Verb.
]
1.
Dim or sore with water or rheum; – said of the eyes.
His
blear
eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
Dryden.
2.
Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
Power to cheat the eye with
blear
illusion.
Milton.

Blear

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Bleared
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Blearing
.]
[OE.
bleren
; cf. Dan.
plire
to blink, Sw.
plira
to twinkle, wink, LG.
plieren
; perh. from the same root as E.
blink
. See
Blink
, and cf.
Blur
.]
To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink.
That tickling rheums
Should ever tease the lungs and
blear
the sight.
Cowper.
To blear the eye of
,
to deceive; to impose upon.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Webster 1828 Edition

Blear

BLEAR

,
Adj.
Sore, with a watery rheum; applied only to the eyes; as the blear-eyed owl.

BLEAR

,
Verb.
T.
To make sore; to affect with soreness of eyes,or a watery humor; to make dim or partially obscure the sight.

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