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bleared, ppl. a.|blɪəd| Forms: 4 bleried, 4–5 blerid, 4–6 blered, 5 bleryd, bleryed, (Sc.) bleirit, 6 blerde, bleered, 6–7 bleard, 8 (Sc.) bleerit, 6– bleared. [f. blear v.1 + -ed.] 1. Of the eyes: Dimmed with tears, morbid matter, or inflammation. Also fig.; see blear v.1 3.
c1340Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 962 Þe tweyne yȝen were..sellyly blered. 1362Langl. P. Pl. A v. 109 Bitel-brouwed with twei blered [v.r. blerid(e] eiȝen. 1382Wyclif Gen. xxix. 17 Lya was with blerid eyen. 1525Ld. Berners Froiss. II. x. 21 Kyng Robert of Scotlande..with a payre of reed blered eyen. 1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 27 Searching for moats with a pair blearde eies. 1792Burns Duncan Gray, Duncan..Grat his een baith bleer't and blin'. 1848Lytton Harold i. 307 The witch..looking into her face with bleared and rheumy eyes. 2. Said of the face or person: Blurred with running from the eyes; blear-eyed.
1500Ort. Voc. in Promp. Parv. 39 note, Lippus dicitur..blered of the eye. 1596Shakes. Merch. V., iii. ii. 59 With bleared visages come forth to view The issue of th' exploit. 1793Burns Meg o' the Mill ii, The Laird was a widdiefu', bleerit knurl. 1863Kingsley Water Bab. viii. (1878) 369 Mr. Grimes so sooty and bleared and ugly. †3. fig. Mentally blinded, deceived. Obs.
1549Cheke Hurt Sedit. (1641) 31 So much blered, that you did think impossible things. |