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BLEARS
Verb
blears
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of blear
Anagrams
• Albers, Balser, Basler, Blaser, Brasel, Labers, Rabels, balers, belars, blares
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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