BLEAR

a. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
a.

Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.

2.
a.

Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.

3.
v.

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.

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