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▪ I. blare, v.|blɛə(r)|
Forms: 5 bleren, 6 blear, Sc. bleir, 8–9 blair, 8– blare.
[Identical in form and sense with MDu. blaren, LG. blaren (blarren, blaeren), MHG. blêren, blerren (mod.G. plärren); not found in the older stages of Teutonic, and generally taken as an imitative word. Cf. blea.]
1. intr. To roar with prolonged sound in weeping, as a child; to bellow as a calf. Now chiefly dial.
c1440Promp. Parv. 40 Bloryyn, or wepyn [1499 bleren], ploro, fleo. 1535Coverdale Isa. xv. 4 The worthies also of Moab bleared and cried for very sorow. ― 1 Sam. vi. 12 The kyne..wente on blearynge. a1586R. Maitland New Year, Thoch all thair barnes suld bleir. 1677Littleton Lat. Dict., To blare, clamitare, muginari. 1783Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, To blare like a cow, mugio. 1791Cowper Odyss. x. 499 Blaring oft, With one consent all dance their dams around. 1862Barnes Rhymes Dorset Dial. I. 162 The calves did bleäry to be sar'd.
2. a. To sound a trumpet, to trumpet. (Now the ordinary word for this sound.)
1782Cowper Lett. 27 Apr., Blairing like trumpeters at a fair. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II, i. x. 60 Innumerable regimental bands blare off. 1865― Fredk. Gt. V. xiii. ix. 97 Those ‘subsidised 6,000,’ who go blaring about on English pay. 1863Tennyson Welcome to Alexandra 14 Warble O bugle and trumpet blare.
b. Of a gramophone, loudspeaker, etc.: to sound loudly and stridently. Also of the sound transmitted and with out.
1955B. Pym Very Private Eye (1984) iii. 194 We passed Westbourne Grove Baptist Church and heard records of hymns blaring out. 1956People 13 May 10/3 The record-player blaring, the liquor, gin punch and the vodka. 1969D. Acheson Present at Creation (1970) xv. 130 He would, his voice blared through powerful amplifiers, announce the speakers of the evening as they came to the platform. 1975R. P. Jhabvala Heat & Dust (1976) 66 Devotional songs blared from a loudspeaker. 1986P. Barker Century's Daughter xv. 271 The juke box blared.
3. a. trans. To utter in blaring.
1859Tennyson Elaine 939 A tongue To blare its own interpretation. 1863Tyneside Songs 4 He blaired oot his last Cuckoo.
b. Of a gramophone, loudspeaker, etc.: to utter (a sound) loudly and stridently. Freq. with out.
1939F. Thompson Lark Rise iv. 72 The wireless blares out variety and swing music. 1956R. Macaulay Towers of Trebizond viii. 76 From cafés and squares loud speakers blared across the water to us the eternal Turkish erotic whine. 1964E. Huxley Back Street New Worlds vi. 65 A radio blares out pop music at full blast. 1980B. Plain Random Winds xxviii. 394 A fat man got out of a taxi, fumbling in the pocket of his bulky overcoat, while traffic behind the taxi blared furious horns.
†4. ‘To sweal, or melt away, as a Candle does.’ Bailey 1721 [cf. flare]. Obs.—o
▪ II. blare, n.1|blɛə(r)|
[f. the vb.]
1. The weeping of a child, the bellowing of calves (dial.); the noise of trumpets and similar instruments. Also of loud music or other noise.
1809J. Barlow Columb. iii. 22 Sigh for battle's blare. 1855Tennyson Ode Wellington 115 With blare of bugle, clamour of men. 1861Lytton Str. Story II. 369 One cry alone more wild than their own savage blare [said of a herd of bisons]. 1924Wodehouse Bill the Conqueror xv. 242 The blare of the music and the restlessness of the chorus afflicted his nerves. 1953J. Cary Except the Lord xviii. 80, I drifted through the heat, the noise,..The ear-splitting blare of steam organs,..and the ground bass of voices. 1961A. Hopkins Talking about Symphonies iv. 63 With a great thump of timpani and a blare of brass, the whole band come sweeping in with the main theme.
2. transf. of ‘loudness’ of colour; cf. glare.
1880Tennyson Ballads & other Poems 149 Lured by the light from afar,..Lured by the glare and the blare. 1884G. H. Boughton in Harper's Mag. Sept. 530/2 The womenkind did not..put on much ‘blare’ of color. 1957C. Day Lewis Pegasus 18 A pure pale blare of distance.
▪ III. blare, n.2
A paste of hair and tar for caulking the seams of boats. Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 1867. |