Blear

Definition of Blear

a.

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.

v. t.

1.

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.

[imp. & p. p. Bleared ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Blearing.]

That tickling rheums
Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight.

- Cowper.

To blear the eye of
to deceive; to impose upon. - Chaucer.

Related Words

blear-eyed, bleary, bleary-eyed, tired

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