Blear
Blear ({not transcribed}) , adjective
[See Blear, v.]
1.
Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.
His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
2.
Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.
Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.
Blear ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English bleren; compare Danish plire to blink, Swedish plira to twinkle, wink, LG. plieren; perh. from the same root as English blink. See Blink, and compare Blur.]
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.
Collocations (1)
To blear the eye of , to deceive; to impose upon. [Obsolete] — Chaucer