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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.

Definition 2024


blear

blear

English

Adjective

blear (comparative more blear, superlative most blear)

  1. (of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
    • Charles Dickens
      His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
    • 1981, John Gardner, Freddy's Book, Abacus 1982, p. 74:
      The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren's left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
  2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
    • Milton
      Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.

Translations

See also

Verb

blear (third-person singular simple present blears, present participle blearing, simple past and past participle bleared)

  1. To make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.

Translations

Anagrams


Romansch

Alternative forms

  • (Rumantsch Grischun, Surmiran, Vallader) bler
  • (Sursilvan, Sutsilvan) bia
  • (Puter) bger

Etymology

From Latin valde.

Adjective

blear m (feminine singular bleara, masculine plural blears, feminine plural blearas)

  1. (Sutsilvan) much, a lot of