How to pronounce“blear”in English
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Definitions of “blear”
Dim; unclear from water or rheum.
“A Promontory Wen, with grieſly grace, Stood high, upon the Handle of his Face: His blear Eyes ran in gutters to his Chin: His Beard was stubble, and his Cheeks were thin.”
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
“Thus I hurle My dazling spells into the ſpungie aire Of power to cheate the eye with bleare illuſion, And give it falſe preſentments, […]”
To be blear; to have blear eyes; to look or gaze with blear eyes.
“18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403, Orpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian, The crowder of that barb’rous nation, Was ballad-singer by vocation;”
To make (usually the eyes or eyesight) blurred or dim.
“your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:”
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