Crossword clues for bleared
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blear \Blear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Blearing.] [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.] 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.
Bleared \Bleared\, a. Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness, n.
Dardanian wives,
With bleared visages, come forth to view
The issue of the exploit.
--Shak.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: blear)
Usage examples of "bleared".
As I passed a hand over my bleared vision, I sat that my palm bore imprinted on it the pattern of the rattan chair arm.
Yet Argustal passed a bird sitting on a cairn, its hooded eye bleared with a million years of danger.
His eyes bleared and troubled him as tears of exhausted rage collected in the rims and gave a misty view.
If his eyes are not too bleared to see me, I fancy the sight of me will sober him.
Now I found myself upon an apparently abandoned road which I had chosen as the shortest cut to Arkham, overtaken by the storm at a point far from any town, and confronted with no refuge save the antique and repellent wooden building which blinked with bleared windows from between two huge leafless elms near the foot of a rocky hill.
I listened to the rain, and to the rattling of the bleared, small-paned windows, and marked a rumbling of approaching thunder quite unusual for the season.
Skardon had aged twenty years, gained a dignified limp, eyes bleared with very dilute vinegar and the slight tremor of the hands signaling approaching parkinsonism.
Through bleared eyes, he saw that he was alone on the bridge with Jax and Lon.
He turns away, gazes at his face in the night window, hollow-eyed, framed by his wet-looking hair, the skin greenish black, bleared with soot and the dark shapes of trees rushing past behind it.