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confused and uncertain, as by soiling; to smear; to make indistinct and confused; as, to blur manuscript by handling it while damp; to blur the impression of a woodcut by an excess of ink. But time hath nothing blurred those lines of favor Which then he wore. Shak.

Full of blurs; blurred.

vulge inconsiderately; to ejaculate; -- commonly with out. Others . . . can not hold, but blurt out, those words which afterward they forced to eat. Hakewill. To blurt at, to speak contemptuously of. [Obs.] Shak.

(Paleon.) The reflexed margin of the trilobite carapace.

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.

A spot or stain, as of ink on paper; a blur. "Inky blots and rotten parchment bonds." Shak.

To utter precipitately; to blurt or throw out. I hate when Vice can bolt her arguments. Milton.

te." Keble. -- To eat one's words, to retract what one has said. (See the Citation under Blurt.) -- To eat out, to consume completely. "Eat out the heart and comfort of it." Tillotson. -- To eat the wind out of a vessel (Naut.), to gain slowly to windward of her.

To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.

To spot; to stain; to blur. Maculate the honor of their people. Sir T. Elyot.

A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.

To blur or double, as an impression from type; to mackle.

The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred. C. A. Young.