The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blear-eyed \Blear"-eyed`\, a.
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Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
The blear-eyed Crispin.
--Drant. Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot.
WordNet
adj. tired to the point of exhaustion [syn: bleary, blear, bleary-eyed]
Usage examples of "blear-eyed".
Robert Koch in post-mortems and blear-eyed peerings through the microscope.
To hear it aright you must stand in the darkness of such a by-street as this, and for the moment be at one with those who dwell around, in the blear-eyed houses, in the dim burrows of poverty, in the unmapped haunts of the semi-human.
So into the nervous night, blear-eyed, he waited on their presence, and ultimately at the moment which said a well-measured time-candle, and no visible stars corresponded with the time of full moon, he rose expectantly from his discomfortable posture on the floor in the middle of his cracked mirror.
Timoleus, the gay satirist of the first two acts, who scoffed at the pious hypocrisies and money-grubbing ways of the great Roman lords, is grown old and fat and blear-eyed and racked with disease in the third, has lost his stately purities, and watered the acid of his wit.