单词 | bleared |
释义 | blearedadj. 1. Of the eyes: Dimmed with tears, morbid matter, or inflammation. Also figurative; see blear v.1 3. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bleary bleared1362 bleary1393 blear1398 swimming1697 muggy1824 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. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 963 Þe tweyne yȝen..were..sellyly blered. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. x. 21 Kyng Robert of Scotlande..with a payre of reed blered eyen. 1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 9v Serching for moats wt a paire of bleard eies. 1792 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 667 Duncan..Grat his een baith bleer't and blin'. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold II. viii. v. 267 The creature gazed hard upon the questioner, from its bleared but fiery eyes. 2. Said of the face or person: Blurred with running from the eyes; blear-eyed. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bleary > having bleary eyes blear-eyed1382 bleared1500 bleary-eyed1927 1500 Ort. Voc. in Promptorium Parvulorum 39 (note) Lippus dicitur..blered of the eye. 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice iii. ii. 59 With bleared visages come forth to view The issue of th'exploit. View more context for this quotation 1793 R. Burns Poems & Songs (1968) II. 689 The Laird was a widdiefu', bleerit knurl. 1863 C. Kingsley Water-babies viii. 331 Mr. Grimes; so sooty, and bleared, and ugly. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceived blindc1000 aguiledc1300 overseena1393 guiledc1400 bleared1549 fonded1566 siled1567 illuded1610 outwitted1766 sold1876 1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. D3 So muche blered that you dyd thinke impossible thinges. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1362 |
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