BLEARING

Verb

blearing

present participle of blear

Anagrams

• balinger, bearling, ringable

Source: Wiktionary


BLEAR

Blear, a. Etym: [See Blear, v.]

1. Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.

2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.

Blear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Blearing.] Etym: [OE. bleren; cf. Dan. plire to blink, Sw. plira to twinkle, wink, LG. plieren; perh. from the same root as E. blink. See Blink, and cf. Blur.]

Definition: To make somewhat sore or watery, as the eyes; to dim, or blur, as the sight. Figuratively: To obscure (mental or moral perception); to blind; to hoodwink. That tickling rheums Should ever tease the lungs and blear the sight. Cowper. To blear the eye of, to deceive; to impose upon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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