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blear-eyed, a.|ˈblɪərˈaɪd|
[f. blear eye + -ed.]
1. lit. Having blear eyes.
1382Wyclif Lev. xxi. 20 If crokid-rigge or bleereyed [1388 blereiȝed]. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 306 Þorw smoke and smorþre..Til he be bler-eyed oþer blynde. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 153 b, Lya was blere-eyed, & myght not se clerely. 1562Turner Herbal ii. 133 The iuice [of Aygrene]..is good for them that are blare eyed. 1642T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. ii. 3 Those who..being bleare eyed and tender sighted are rather dazled and dimmed by the Sunnes beames. 1787Wolcott (P. Pindar) Wks. 1812 I. 458 The wrinkled blear-eyed, good old Granny. 1798[see collier-woman s.v. collier III]. 1935W. S. Maugham Don Fernando xi. 232 You have painted me ugly and blear-eyed.
2. fig. Having the mental vision dimmed; dull of perception, short-sighted.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iii. xvii. (1634) 395 The judgement of God farre surmounteth the bleare-eyed sight of men. 1581J. Bell Haddon's Answ. Osor. 221 Their bleare eyed dulnes. 1663J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 340 Men quickly hated this blear-ey'd Religion. 1687Dryden Hind & Panther ii. 61 That ev'n the blear⁓ey'd sects may find her out. 1927Yeats October Blast 15 Nor blear-eyed wisdom out of midnight oil.
Hence blear-ˈeyedness.
c1440Promp. Parv. 39 Blerydnesse [1499 blere iyednesse], lippitudo. 1611Cotgr., Chacie, bleare-eyednesse; a running, or waterishnesse of the eyes. 1653Gauden Hierasp. 96 That darkness and bleareyednesse, which prejudice and perverseness carry with them. 1877F. C. L. Wraxall V. Hugo's Miserables i. Contemporary admiration is blear-eyedness. |