blearyl (bleri)

[ and blur a, blink (ef. dial. blirra fojr augu, bleary2, n. Oh give me back my native hills, If bleak or bleary, grim or gray. See bleery . Cumber land Ballad. quiver before the eyes, of summer heat), = LG. plüren, plyren, pliren (also bleerin bleer- bleat (blet), v. i. [ IMG:content-2169.png:[merged small][ocr errors][merged small] blazan, MHG. blazen , G. dial. blä en , blätzen , bleat; cf. G. blöken , bleat, bellow (see balk2 , bolk ), L. balare , bleat (see balant ), Gr. βλη- χᾶσθαι , bleat, βληχή , Dor. βλαχά , a bleating: all perhaps ult. of imitative origin, like baa , q. v.] To cry as a sheep, goat, or calf; also, as a snipe. Then suddenly was heard along the main To low the ox, to bleat the woolly train. Pope, Ody ey, xii. bleat (blēt), n. [ 2. To blur, as the face with weeping; obscure; sheep, goat, or calf; also, of a snipe. obfuscate. Stern faces bleared with immemorial watch. Lowell, Cathedral. To blear one's eyest, figuratively, to deceive; hood- wink; blind. They wenen that no man may hem bigile, But by my thrift, yet shal I blere her eye. Chaucer, Reeve's Tale, 1. 129. Entising dames my patience still did proue, The bleat of flocks, the breath of flowers. Moir, Harebell. And got a calf.. Much like to you, for you have just his bleat . Shak., Much Ado, v. 4. bleater (blē'tér), n. An animal that bleats; specifically, a sheep. In cold, stiff soils the bleaters oft complain Of gouty ails. John Dyer, Fleece, i. And blear'd mine eyes. Gas coigne , The Fruits of Fetters. bleauntt, n. [ME., also written bleeaunt , bleII. in trans . To have bleared or inflamed hand, bliand, blihand; MLG. bliant (with term. eyes; be blear-eyed. blear1 (bler), a. and n. [Not an orig. adj., but a umed from blear - eyed, where blear is directly from the verb. See blear -eyed.] I. a. 1. Sore or dim from a watery discharge or other superficial affection: applied only to the eyes. A wit that can make your perfections so transparent, that every blear eye may look through them. ) B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, iv. 1. Half blind he peered at me through his blear eyes. Layard, Nineveh and Babylon, i. varied from orig.) = MHG. blialt, bliat, 2. Producing dimne of vision; blinding. placed it. For mounted men it was divided nearly to the [Obsolete or poetical.] IMG:content-2170.png:[blocks in formation] Arsenic abounds with air blebs .