Sekirov Dictionary

blear

UK /blɪə/US /blɪɹ/

verb 3
adjective 2
forms 6

verb3

•
To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.
- your self you cannot so disguise: — 1584
•
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. — 1865
•
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. — 1886

adjective2

•
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. — 1693
•
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, […] — 1634

forms

bleared · blearing · blears · more blear · blearest · most blear

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