blear
verb
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L330962 on Wikidata ↗adjective
No English definition recorded for this entry.
L334907 on Wikidata ↗Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /blɪə/ / /blɪɹ/ / /bliə/
adj
Etymology: From Middle English blere, related to Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”), Middle High German blerre (“double vision”), German Blerre (“double vision”). Perhaps also related to blur.
- 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.”
- 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, […]”
verb
Etymology: From Middle English bleren, from Old English *blǣran, related to West Frisian blearje (“to bleat, shout”), Dutch bleren, blaren (“to bellow, bleat”), German Low German blaren, blarren (“to blare, howl, shriek”), German plärren (“to howl, shriek, blare”).
- Alternative form of blare