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Marked with spots resembling bird's eyes; as, bird's-eye diaper; bird's-eye maple.

or, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! Shak.

Having black eyes. Dryden.

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

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant.

on; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64.

is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

To see with the eyes half shut, or indistinctly and with frequent winking, as a person with weak eyes. Show me thy chink, to blink through with mine eyne. Shak.

One who blinks with, or as with, weak eyes. Among the blind the one-eyed blinkard reigns. Marvell.

A kind of goggles, used to protect the eyes form glare, etc.

A person of very fair complexion, with light hair and light blue eyes. [Written also blond.]

ing the vessels turgid with blood, as when the conjunctiva is inflamed or irritated. His eyes were bloodshot, . . . and his hair disheveled. Dickens.

Having blue eyes.

To cause imperfection of vision in; to dim; to darken. Her eyes are blurred with the lightning's glare. J. R. Drake.

A boaster. O, I could play the woman with mine eyes, And braggart with my tongue. Shak.

n of brambles growing together. He jumped into a bramble bush And scratched out both his eyes. Mother Goose.

Finely; gaudily; gayly; showily. And [she] decked herself bravely to allure the eyes of all men that should see her. Judith. x. 4.