blearn.

Etymology: ? < blear adj. or blear v.¹

rare.

Blearing, blearness; in plural blearedness of eyes, bleared eyes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > bleariness

bleariness1398

blear-eyednessc1440

blearing1542

blearness1543

blear1603

lippitude1626

blearedness1678

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness

undistinction1647

shadowinessa1672

indistinctness1704

obscure1787

muzz1843

fogginess1853

blur1860

blurredness1864

veiling1864

fuzziness1866

blear1868

nebulousness1878

incertitude1883

velation1922

blurriness1937

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun]

staining1530

stain1563

besmearing1574

attainture1608

soilurea1616

smutting1621

sullying1629

macula1649

black wash1856

smirching1862

blear1868

smudging1873

1603 Philotus vi. sig. A3 ^v I think ane man sir, of ȝour ȝeiris, Sould not be blyndit with the bleiris.

1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 125 The blear of our sin.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018).

blearadj.

Brit.

/blɪə/, U.S.

/blɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Middle English–1500s blere, 1500s–1600s bleare, 1600s bleer(e, 1600s– blear.

Etymology: Middle English blere, an epithet of the eyes: this and the cognate verb are of uncertain origin. There are no corresponding words in Old English, and the only cognates in other Germanic languages are the modern German blerr soreness of the eyes, Low German blarr-oged, bleer-oged blear-eyed. Swedish plira, Danish plire to blink, leer, can hardly be connected. Though the verb appears in quotations before the adjective, the form of the words and general analogies make it probable that the verb was formed on the adjective.

1. Of the eyes or sight: Dim from water or other superficial affection.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bleary

bleared1362

bleary1393

blear1398

swimming1697

muggy1824

1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxi. 333 The syghte of a candyll is seen wythout lette of an eye that is hole, but of a blere eye it is nat seen wythout lykenesse and shape of a manere rayne bowe.

1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxiii Blere eyes whiche is whan the vnder lyd of the eye is subuerted.

1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xxi. 132 A medicine..to lay to sore and blere eies.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 95 It causeth bleare eies.

1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 117 Her tender blue eyes grew watery and blear.

1843 W. H. Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 47 His eyes were blear and glassy.

figurative.1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 37 If our understanding..be blear with gazing on other false glisterings.

2. transferred. Dim, misty, indistinct in outline.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct

dimc1000

blinda1398

undistingued1398

obscure?a1450

undistinct1495

shadowed1588

undistinguishable1600

shady1626

blear1637

filmed1637

indistinguishable1642

crepusculous1646

adumbrated1650

oblite1650

faint1660

monogrammous1678

blurred1701

faintish1712

wispya1717

adumbrant1727

muzzy1744

indistinct1764

fuzzy1778

misty1797

shadowy1797

undistinguished1814

woolly1815

vague1822

furzy1825

mystified1833

slurred1843

feeble1860

smudginga1861

filmy1864

smudgy1865

blurry1884

slurry1937

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective]

dima1000

darkOE

troublea1327

palec1385

dullc1430

unclearc1440

unbright1534

cloudy1556

unlight1570

muddy1600

wan1601

opacous1616

filmy1642

illuminous1656

crepuscular1668

dumb1720

rayless1754

opaque1794

veilya1802

turbid1811

unlucent1819

ineffulgent1824

blear1830

unrefulgent1856

subluminous1860

subaqueous1875

shineless1882

1637 J. Milton Comus 6 To cheate the eye with bleare illusion.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 49 The blear ice..sheds a dazzling glare.

1830 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 813 On the blear autumn eves, When small birds shriek adown the wind.

Derivatives

blear-witted adj. having the mental faculties dimmed.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [adjective]

thestera900

thestria900

blindc1000

blindfoldc1450

blinkard?1528

purblind1533

blinded1535

blear-eyed1561

obcaecate1568

unilluminated1579

fonda1592

blear-witted1600

short-sighted1622

baby-blind1627

obcaecated1641

misty-brained1649

twilighta1677

blindfolded1730

short-sighted1736

unpliable1769

misty1820

myopical1830

visionless1856

myopic1891

blinkered1897

1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. ii. sig. Oiv They were very bleare-witted yfaith that could not discerne the Gentleman in him.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blearv.¹

Brit.

/blɪə/, U.S.

/blɪ(ə)r/

Forms: Middle English bleri, Middle English–1500s blere, 1500s bler ( blirre), 1500s–1600s bleer(e, bleare, 1500s– blear.

Etymology: The Middle English forms point to an Old English *blerian or *blierian intransitive in sense 1, < blear adj.; but no such form is known: see blear adj. Compare also blur v.

†1.

a. intransitive. To have watery or inflamed eyes, to be blear-eyed. (Said also of an albino.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > of the eyes: be afflicted with disorder [verb (intransitive)] > be bleary > have bleary eyes

bleara1300

a1300 Old Age in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 149 I stunt i stomere, I stomble . i blind, i bleri.

1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. x For she..Unwarely can do blere a mannes eye.

1483 Cath. Angl. 34 To Blere, lippire, lippiscere.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii^v/1 To Bleare, lippire.

1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 63^v Quhat may ȝone fell freik be, [that] With the quhite berd and scarlat ene dois bleir?

b. with complemental object.

ΚΠ

a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 147 The new-raised morne (like Eyes ill-wak't) Blears through the Deaw faint Raies.

a. transitive. To dim (the eyes) with tears, rheum, or inflammation; to dim the vision of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > afflict with eye disorder [verb (transitive)] > make bleary

blearc1340

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim

dima1300

blemish1440

troublea1500

misten1599

perstringe1603

blear1605

tara1612

disgregatea1631

purblind1644

obfuscate1656

blast1757

blur1791

bedim1811

c1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 962 Þe tweyne yȝen were..sellyly blered.

1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A v. 109 Bitel-brouwed with twei blered [v.r. blerid(e] eiȝen.

1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxix. 17 Lya was with blerid eyen.

1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. x. 21 Kyng Robert of Scotlande..with a payre of reed blered eyen.

1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 206/2 The brightnesse blered myne eye.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 His eyes be so bleared with drinkyng that they be as reed as a fyrret.

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 55 The loud-roring Thunder..Sends forth those Flashes which so bleare our sight.

1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs iii. 45 I used to find out Ointments to blear my Eyes.

1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend i. 33 He..bleared his eyes with books.

b. To blur (the countenance) as with tears.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > make indistinct > the countenance

blearc1540

c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9132 The teris..blaknet with bleryng all hir ble qwite.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 78 The Earth smiles not on us, nor the Heaven; but weeps and blears itself, in sour rain.

1861 ‘N. Temple’ & ‘E. Trevor’ Tannhäuser 8 That tremendous Doom..Shatter'd the superstitious dome that blear'd Heaven's face to man.

a. (figurative) to blear the eyes: to deceive, blind, ‘hoodwink,’ ‘throw dust in the eyes.’ Very common in 16th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [phrase]

to blear the eyesc1325

to play mock-holiday with?1558

on a lock1598

to put the change upon (also on) (a person)1658

to play false1680

to draw (pull, spread) the wool over (a person's) eyes1839

to lead (a person) up the garden (path)1923

to pull a fastie1931

to take (someone) for a sleigh ride1931

to pull a swiftie1945

c1325 Coer de L. 3708 So queyntyly to blere myn eye.

c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 148 For al thy waytyng, blered is thin ye.

a1400 Octouian 1387 For to blere the Soudanes ye Queynte lesynges he gan to lye.

1537 T. Cromwell in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. III. 229 You have bleared my eyes once. Your credit shall never more serve you so far to deceive me the second time.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. i. 109 While counterfeit supposes bleer'd thine eine.

a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 220 To blear Mens Eyes with Fopperies.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 343 I want nane o' your siller..to make ye think I am blearing your e'e.

1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. iii. 91 Henry III was seeking to blear the eyes of the world.

†b. In the same sense the simple verb was used.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)]

aschrenchc885

blendc888

swikec950

belirtOE

beswike971

blencha1000

blenka1000

belieOE

becatchc1175

trokec1175

beguile?c1225

biwrench?c1225

guile?c1225

trechec1230

unordainc1300

blink1303

deceivec1320

feintc1330

trechetc1330

misusea1382

blind1382

forgo1382

beglose1393

troil1393

turnc1405

lirt?a1425

abuse?a1439

ludify1447

amuse1480

wilec1480

trump1487

delude?a1505

sile1508

betrumpa1522

blear1530

aveugle1543

mislippen1552

pot1560

disglose1565

oversile1568

blaze1570

blirre1570

bleck1573

overtake1581

fail1590

bafflea1592

blanch1592

geck?a1600

hallucinate1604

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intrigue1612

guggle1617

nigglea1625

nose-wipe1628

cog1629

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jilt1660

top1663

chaldese1664

bilk1672

bejuggle1680

nuzzlec1680

snub1694

bite1709

nebus1712

fugle1719

to take in1740

have?1780

quirk1791

rum1812

rattlesnake1818

chicane1835

to suck in1842

mogue1854

blinker1865

to have on1867

mag1869

sleight1876

bumfuzzle1878

swop1890

wool1890

spruce1917

jive1928

shit1934

smokescreen1950

dick1964

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 I bleare, I begyle by dissymulacyon.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Mi^v/1 To Blirre, fallere.]

1613 E. Hoby Counter-snarle 14 Blearing his Reader, that these are but worme-eaten sayings.

1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. xvii. 54 He was so besotted and bleared with them.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

† blearv.²

Forms: Middle English–1600s blere, Middle English bleere, 1500s bleare, 1500s– blear.

Etymology: apparently distinct from the blear v.¹: perhaps onomatopoeic, but naming a gesture rather than a sound, though some inarticulate sound may have originally been implied. Compare blare v.

Obsolete.

a. intransitive. To protrude the tongue in mockery. Also to blear with the tongue. transitive. to blear (out) the tongue (at, against, upon).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture

bleara1340

blabber1530

to shoot out1535

pot1549

sleak1674

to make a long nose1828

to thumb one's nose1854

a1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2226 And grymly gryn on hym and blere.

c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 60 While þou art a child, With þi tunge on folk þou bleere.

1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 81 The asse..bleryd grennyd and songe.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 I bleare with the tonge.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 The knave bleareth his tonge at me.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lvii. A Vpon whom gape ye with youre mouth, & bleare out youre tonge?

1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xxix. sig. Lv Not ones to blere or to open their mouthes agaynst it.

1605 L. Andrewes Serm. ii. 173 Wagging their heads, writhing their mouths, yea blearing out their tongues.

b. Cf. the following, and blare v.

ΚΠ

1616 T. Scott Christs Politician 7 All that the silly sheep can do, is only to bleare and bleate a little with his tongue.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

n.1603

adj.1398

v.¹a1300

v.²a1340

单词	blear
释义	blearn. Etymology: ? < blear adj. or blear v.¹ rare. Blearing, blearness; in plural blearedness of eyes, bleared eyes. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > bleariness bleariness1398 blear-eyednessc1440 blearing1542 blearness1543 blear1603 lippitude1626 blearedness1678 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [noun] > indistinctness undistinction1647 shadowinessa1672 indistinctness1704 obscure1787 muzz1843 fogginess1853 blur1860 blurredness1864 veiling1864 fuzziness1866 blear1868 nebulousness1878 incertitude1883 velation1922 blurriness1937 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] staining1530 stain1563 besmearing1574 attainture1608 soilurea1616 smutting1621 sullying1629 macula1649 black wash1856 smirching1862 blear1868 smudging1873 1603 Philotus vi. sig. A3 ^v I think ane man sir, of ȝour ȝeiris, Sould not be blyndit with the bleiris. 1868 H. Bushnell Serm. Living Subj. 125 The blear of our sin. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2018). blearadj. Brit. /blɪə/, U.S. /blɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Middle English–1500s blere, 1500s–1600s bleare, 1600s bleer(e, 1600s– blear. Etymology: Middle English blere, an epithet of the eyes: this and the cognate verb are of uncertain origin. There are no corresponding words in Old English, and the only cognates in other Germanic languages are the modern German blerr soreness of the eyes, Low German blarr-oged, bleer-oged blear-eyed. Swedish plira, Danish plire to blink, leer, can hardly be connected. Though the verb appears in quotations before the adjective, the form of the words and general analogies make it probable that the verb was formed on the adjective. 1. Of the eyes or sight: Dim from water or other superficial affection. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bleary bleared1362 bleary1393 blear1398 swimming1697 muggy1824 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) viii. xxi. 333 The syghte of a candyll is seen wythout lette of an eye that is hole, but of a blere eye it is nat seen wythout lykenesse and shape of a manere rayne bowe. 1547 A. Borde Breuiary of Helthe i. f. lxxxiii Blere eyes whiche is whan the vnder lyd of the eye is subuerted. 1561 J. Daus tr. H. Bullinger Hundred Serm. vpon Apocalips xxi. 132 A medicine..to lay to sore and blere eies. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 95 It causeth bleare eies. 1840 W. M. Thackeray Paris Sketch Bk. I. 117 Her tender blue eyes grew watery and blear. 1843 W. H. Ainsworth Tower of London (1864) 47 His eyes were blear and glassy. figurative.1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 37 If our understanding..be blear with gazing on other false glisterings. 2. transferred. Dim, misty, indistinct in outline. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] dima1000 darkOE troublea1327 palec1385 dullc1430 unclearc1440 unbright1534 cloudy1556 unlight1570 muddy1600 wan1601 opacous1616 filmy1642 illuminous1656 crepuscular1668 dumb1720 rayless1754 opaque1794 veilya1802 turbid1811 unlucent1819 ineffulgent1824 blear1830 unrefulgent1856 subluminous1860 subaqueous1875 shineless1882 1637 J. Milton Comus 6 To cheate the eye with bleare illusion. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad i. 49 The blear ice..sheds a dazzling glare. 1830 T. Aird in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Nov. 813 On the blear autumn eves, When small birds shriek adown the wind. Derivatives blear-witted adj. having the mental faculties dimmed. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [adjective] thestera900 thestria900 blindc1000 blindfoldc1450 blinkard?1528 purblind1533 blinded1535 blear-eyed1561 obcaecate1568 unilluminated1579 fonda1592 blear-witted1600 short-sighted1622 baby-blind1627 obcaecated1641 misty-brained1649 twilighta1677 blindfolded1730 short-sighted1736 unpliable1769 misty1820 myopical1830 visionless1856 myopic1891 blinkered1897 1600 B. Jonson Every Man out of his Humor v. ii. sig. Oiv They were very bleare-witted yfaith that could not discerne the Gentleman in him. View more context for this quotation This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blearv.¹ Brit. /blɪə/, U.S. /blɪ(ə)r/ Forms: Middle English bleri, Middle English–1500s blere, 1500s bler ( blirre), 1500s–1600s bleer(e, bleare, 1500s– blear. Etymology: The Middle English forms point to an Old English blerian or blierian intransitive in sense 1, < blear adj.; but no such form is known: see blear adj. Compare also blur v. †1. a. intransitive. To have watery or inflamed eyes, to be blear-eyed. (Said also of an albino.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > of the eyes: be afflicted with disorder [verb (intransitive)] > be bleary > have bleary eyes bleara1300 a1300 Old Age in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 149 I stunt i stomere, I stomble . i blind, i bleri. 1430 J. Lydgate tr. Hist. Troy i. x For she..Unwarely can do blere a mannes eye. 1483 Cath. Angl. 34 To Blere, lippire, lippiscere. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Rii^v/1 To Bleare, lippire. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iv. f. 63^v Quhat may ȝone fell freik be, [that] With the quhite berd and scarlat ene dois bleir? b. with complemental object. ΚΠ a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V clxxxvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 147 The new-raised morne (like Eyes ill-wak't) Blears through the Deaw faint Raies. 2. a. transitive. To dim (the eyes) with tears, rheum, or inflammation; to dim the vision of. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > afflict with eye disorder [verb (transitive)] > make bleary blearc1340 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim dima1300 blemish1440 troublea1500 misten1599 perstringe1603 blear1605 tara1612 disgregatea1631 purblind1644 obfuscate1656 blast1757 blur1791 bedim1811 c1340 Gaw. & Gr. Knt. 962 Þe tweyne yȝen were..sellyly blered. 1362 W. Langland Piers Plowman A v. 109 Bitel-brouwed with twei blered [v.r. blerid(e] eiȝen. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Gen. xxix. 17 Lya was with blerid eyen. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. x. 21 Kyng Robert of Scotlande..with a payre of reed blered eyen. 1528 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 206/2 The brightnesse blered myne eye. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 His eyes be so bleared with drinkyng that they be as reed as a fyrret. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. ii. 55 The loud-roring Thunder..Sends forth those Flashes which so bleare our sight. 1728 T. Sheridan tr. Persius Satyrs iii. 45 I used to find out Ointments to blear my Eyes. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend i. 33 He..bleared his eyes with books. b. To blur (the countenance) as with tears. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > make invisible [verb (transitive)] > make indistinct > the countenance blearc1540 c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy 9132 The teris..blaknet with bleryng all hir ble qwite. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. i. vii. 78 The Earth smiles not on us, nor the Heaven; but weeps and blears itself, in sour rain. 1861 ‘N. Temple’ & ‘E. Trevor’ Tannhäuser 8 That tremendous Doom..Shatter'd the superstitious dome that blear'd Heaven's face to man. 3. a. (figurative) to blear the eyes: to deceive, blind, ‘hoodwink,’ ‘throw dust in the eyes.’ Very common in 16th cent. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [phrase] to blear the eyesc1325 to play mock-holiday with?1558 on a lock1598 to put the change upon (also on) (a person)1658 to play false1680 to draw (pull, spread) the wool over (a person's) eyes1839 to lead (a person) up the garden (path)1923 to pull a fastie1931 to take (someone) for a sleigh ride1931 to pull a swiftie1945 c1325 Coer de L. 3708 So queyntyly to blere myn eye. c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 148 For al thy waytyng, blered is thin ye. a1400 Octouian 1387 For to blere the Soudanes ye Queynte lesynges he gan to lye. 1537 T. Cromwell in J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. III. 229 You have bleared my eyes once. Your credit shall never more serve you so far to deceive me the second time. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) v. i. 109 While counterfeit supposes bleer'd thine eine. View more context for this quotation a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1714) 220 To blear Mens Eyes with Fopperies. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 343 I want nane o' your siller..to make ye think I am blearing your e'e. 1860 J. L. Motley Hist. Netherlands (1868) I. iii. 91 Henry III was seeking to blear the eyes of the world. †b. In the same sense the simple verb was used. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)] aschrenchc885 blendc888 swikec950 belirtOE beswike971 blencha1000 blenka1000 belieOE becatchc1175 trokec1175 beguile?c1225 biwrench?c1225 guile?c1225 trechec1230 unordainc1300 blink1303 deceivec1320 feintc1330 trechetc1330 misusea1382 blind1382 forgo1382 beglose1393 troil1393 turnc1405 lirt?a1425 abuse?a1439 ludify1447 amuse1480 wilec1480 trump1487 delude?a1505 sile1508 betrumpa1522 blear1530 aveugle1543 mislippen1552 pot1560 disglose1565 oversile1568 blaze1570 blirre1570 bleck1573 overtake1581 fail1590 bafflea1592 blanch1592 geck?a1600 hallucinate1604 hoodwink1610 intrigue1612 guggle1617 nigglea1625 nose-wipe1628 cog1629 cheat1637 flam1637 nurse1639 jilt1660 top1663 chaldese1664 bilk1672 bejuggle1680 nuzzlec1680 snub1694 bite1709 nebus1712 fugle1719 to take in1740 have?1780 quirk1791 rum1812 rattlesnake1818 chicane1835 to suck in1842 mogue1854 blinker1865 to have on1867 mag1869 sleight1876 bumfuzzle1878 swop1890 wool1890 spruce1917 jive1928 shit1934 smokescreen1950 dick1964 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 I bleare, I begyle by dissymulacyon. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Mi^v/1 To Blirre, fallere.] 1613 E. Hoby Counter-snarle 14 Blearing his Reader, that these are but worme-eaten sayings. 1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. xvii. 54 He was so besotted and bleared with them. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † blearv.² Forms: Middle English–1600s blere, Middle English bleere, 1500s bleare, 1500s– blear. Etymology: apparently distinct from the blear v.¹: perhaps onomatopoeic, but naming a gesture rather than a sound, though some inarticulate sound may have originally been implied. Compare blare v. Obsolete. a. intransitive. To protrude the tongue in mockery. Also to blear with the tongue. transitive. to blear (out) the tongue (at, against, upon). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > derision, ridicule, or mockery > deride, ridicule, or mock [verb (intransitive)] > make derisive gesture bleara1340 blabber1530 to shoot out1535 pot1549 sleak1674 to make a long nose1828 to thumb one's nose1854 a1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 2226 And grymly gryn on hym and blere. c1430 Hymns Virg. (1867) 60 While þou art a child, With þi tunge on folk þou bleere. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Hist. Reynard Fox (1970) 81 The asse..bleryd grennyd and songe. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 I bleare with the tonge. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/2 The knave bleareth his tonge at me. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Isa. lvii. A Vpon whom gape ye with youre mouth, & bleare out youre tonge? 1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xxix. sig. Lv Not ones to blere or to open their mouthes agaynst it. 1605 L. Andrewes Serm. ii. 173 Wagging their heads, writhing their mouths, yea blearing out their tongues. b. Cf. the following, and blare v. ΚΠ 1616 T. Scott Christs Politician 7 All that the silly sheep can do, is only to bleare and bleate a little with his tongue. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1603adj.1398v.¹a1300v.²a1340
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