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blear eye

blear eye noun: a disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.

Noun

blear eye (uncountable)

  1. A disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
    • LIPPITU′DO, Ophthal′mia chron′ica of some. Lippitude, Blear eye, Lappa, Lipa, Xerophthal′mia, Lema, Lemē, Glama, Gramia.[1839, Robley Dunglison, “LIPPITUDO”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 362

Origin of blear eye

From blear + eye.

Questions about blear eye

What does blear eye mean?
Blear eye means a disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
What part of speech is blear eye?
Blear eye is a noun.

Words near blear eye in the dictionary

  1. bleaks
  2. bleaksome
  3. bleaky
  4. Blean
  5. blear
  6. blear eye
  7. bleared
  8. blearedness
  9. blearest
  10. bleareyed
  11. bleareyedness

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