blears

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
   • 18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403,
     Orpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian,
     The crowder of that barb’rous nation,
     Was ballad-singer by...
2. (transitive) To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.
   • your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:1584, Anonymous, Sonnet, in Clement Robinson et al., A Handefull of Pleasnt Delites, London: Richard Ihones, reprinted from the original edition for the Spenser Society, 1871, p. 52, I Smile to ſee...
3. (transitive) 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, Alfred Billings Street, “My Canoe”, in Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks, New York: Gregory, page 33

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