To
Blea'rness.
Also To
in mockery.
protrude the tongue
-id,
1812
.
.
th
'.
blered of the eye. 1596 SHAKS. Merch. I'., in. n. 59
bleared visages come forth to view The issue of th exploit.
a widdiefu
was
The
Laird
Mill
the
o'
ii,
BURNS
Meg
1793
viii. (1878' 369
bleerit knurl.
1863 KINGSLEY ll'ater Bab.
Mr. Grimes so sooty and bleared and ugly.
,
'
3. fig. Mentally blinded, deceived. Obs.
So much blered, that
1549 CHEKE Hurt. Scdit. (1641! 31
you did think impossible things.
+ -NEBS. ]
[f. prec.
(bli-*mes).
Bleared condition.
clxxxv.
R. xvn.
(14951 726 The
1398 TREVISA Earth. DeP.
dronklew mannes
eyen ben full of whelkes and pymples
Blearedness
bleat her.
2. transf.
voice.
.
b. trans.
Bleat
blate.
or calf.
blear eyes.
or bleereyed
1382 WYCLIF Lev. xxi. 20 If crokid-rigge
smoke
1393 LANGL. P. PI. C. xx. 306 porw
[1388 blereijed].
1526
Til he be bier-eyed ober blynde.
and smorbre
&
Piter. Per/. (\i. de W. 1531' 153 b, Lya was Here-eyed,
iuice [of
Aygrene]
ii.
Those who. .bem t
2. fig. Having the mental vision
of perception, short-sighted.
1561
T NORTON
God
Calvin's Inst.
farre
dimmed
;
dull
11634) 395
The
[1499 Were iyednesse],
a run;
Chacie, bleare-eyednesse
the
of
1653 GAUDEN Hierasp.
eyes.
ning, or waterishnesse
which prejudice and
96 That darkness and bleareyedness,
them. 1877 WRAXELL I'. Hugo s
perverseness carry with
Miserable! I. Contemporary admiration is blear-eyedness.
a,
Bleariness (bli*>-rines).
= BLEAREDNESS.
[f.
BLEARY + -SMS.]
xxi. (14951 211 wyne.
1398 TREVISA Earth. De P. R. vi.
Medulla
dooth awaye webbes and blerines of eyen. 1468
Gram, in Cath. Angl. 34 Lipfihida, blerynes off the eye.
118 The small bleanness of
XXXI.
Blackw.
Mag.
1831
their opaque optics.
1
.
Blearing
(bli^rin), vol.
sl>.^
[f.
BLEAK
.
w. ]
condition of being bleared, blearedness.
that
1541 UDALL Erastn. Apoph. 59 a, Lippitudo Atticae,
1.
is,
L-f.
prec. vb.]
Also 4 blet, 6 Sc. bleit, 8
The
cry of a sheep, goat,
.
.
Of the
thick-fleeced sheep.
b. transf. Any similar cry spec, that of a snipe.
The owl's hoot and the
1863 KINGSLEY Water-Bab. 131
snipe's bleat and the fox's bark.
similar sound made by the human voice.
C.
;
in. xvii.
surmounteth the bleare-eyed sight
l6jl COTGR.,
111
OTGR.,
(b\X,sb.
[f.
long bleat
Hence Blear-eye'dness.
c 1440 Promp. Pan: 39 Blerydnesse
,,-^.j.
babble, prate.
to,
Lowings,
their
Occas Pieces iii, His barkings loud and quick Amid
livetremulous bleat. 1842 TENNYSON Ode Memory v, The
judgement of
Amw. Osor. UI That
of men.
1581 J. BELL It'addon's
bleare eyed dulnes.
1663 J. SPENCER Prodigies (1665) 340
Men quickly hated this blear-ey'd Religion.
Mtiifa.
mouth
A
1
3
1642 T. TAYLOR God's Judgcm.
dimmed
bleare eyed and tender sighted are ratherdazled and
(P. Pindar) Wks.
by the Sunnes beames. 1787 WOLCOTT
old
Granny.
wrinkled
good
The
blear-eyed,
1812 I. 458
I.
give
Ps. lxxvii[i], 70 Fro the aftir berende Wet he
[1382
it
toe hym [1388 fro bihynde scheep with lambren; Vulg.
postfatantes accepit </].]
to
like
Much
Calfe
1590 SHAKS. Much Ado v. iv. 51
you for you haue iust his bleat. 1697 DRYDEN Virg. Georg.
\\
ith
in 826 The Rivers, and their Banks, and Hills around,
and with dying Bleats resound. 1798 SOUTHEY
he
good for them that are blare eyed.
I.
t.
WYCLIF
.
is
To
bleating everywhere.
Having
.
Nourishing
BLATE.
Milton's Def. Pop. vi. (1851) 165 \ on,
1692 WASHINGTON tr.
who bleat what you know nothing of [Lat. qlii ea tlatis}.
of a sheep.
0. Used of sounds likened to the cry
1880 HOWELLS I'ndisc. Country viii. 123 Their bells were
Blear-eyed
.
Used contemptuously of the human
Balamites. 1869 HEAVVSEGE Saul 3 12 Jf she bleats now,
'tis her nature, and the gift of women.
Why,
insinuation,
401 Will unkindness, fraducement,
bleardness never cease?
-t-ED.]
(bll-Tisi-d), a. [f. blear eye
n. 133
.
.
(18441 4*9
The
the bleryng of Attica.
action of making blear ; fig. deception.
I the quyte
ci-$6 CHAUCER Reeves T. n Ful wel coude
With bleryng of a prowd mylleres ye. c 1400 Destr Troy
trickilt on her tryet chekes .. blaknet
bat
teris
The
9134
with bleryng all hir ble qwite.
as re8. trans/. The guttering of a candle ;
the eyes.
sembling the rheum which blears
I know not what
1-05 BERKELEY in Fraser Life (18711 509,
mote fitly to compare it to than to the bleanngs of a candle.
BLEAR p.* +
06s.
st.*
vel.
[f.
t Blearing,
The protruding of the tongue or making
-ING'.]
2 The
of mouths in mockery.
the
e 1440 Promp. Pan: 39 Bleryngc or mowynge wythe
mowthe, valgio..
A
rieosDuNBAR/Tv^ 204 Thaybickerit the with monybae
and bleit. 1799 Month. Re-.: XXIX. 142 The inarticulate
vulgarity, the calf's blate of those speakers.
Bleat e, obs. form of BLATE Sc.
Bleater blf tw). [f. BLEAT v. + -EB'.]
1. An animal that bleats, as a sheep, calf,
v
etc.
VII. 536 Some
1567 MORTON Gl. Bull in Harl.Misc.(iSu\
fellowes
and
soule
blacke
as
blacke
hys
with
calves
faces,
common bleaters. 1755 Gentl. Mag. XXV. 568 Swift o er
bound. t8o8 JAVIESON, Bleater,,
e bleaters
a
e little
awns the
te
the lawns
the cock snipe, Ettr. For. ; denominated from its bleating
flock of
/
SINGLETON
sound. 1855
'irgil 1 87 Plunge the
bleaters in the healthful stream.
.
kind of tunic or upper garment also a rich
used for this garment.
he curf, his
c HI4 Guy Warn: (Turnb.) 208 His blihant
A
;
stuff or fabric
many idle singing-men to bleat in their chapels.the1569
Popish
HAKE Nevies J'mules Churchy. F vj, Thus bleate
HI. (1871)
TURNER Herbal
ffiattt.]
.
BECON Jewel of Joy Wks.
,71563
i.
and of bleryednesse. c 1475 Found. St. Barthol Hasp. n.
of yen.
1563
(1886) 8 1 This man putte a syde bleriednes
and
T. GALE Antidot. n. 36 It amendeth the blearednes,
consumeth the teares.
I. v. 195 There
transf. 1881 W. RUSSELL Ocean Free L.
was a haziness about the azure, a blearedness resembling
the film on a sick man's eyes.
2 fig Affection of the mental or moral vision.
21. 165 The Bleared1678 R. BARCLAY Apol. Quakers \.
ness of the Eyes of our Minds. 1831 S. JUDD Margaret
,
I. xxxviii, In o robe Tristrem
a blihand broun The richest that was
was he cledde. c 1325,.
blehand
In
xli,
wrought.
whyt watz hyr
E At/it P. A. 163 A mayden Blysnande
.Ot
Knt.
Gr.
Can:
c
879 A mere niantyle.
bleaunt.
e,
1340
Alexander
a broun bleeaunt enbrouded ful ryche. a 1400
all over.
him
brade
obove
bleaunt
blewe
(Stev 167 A
like
Blel) (bleb), ib. Also 7 blebb. [app.
schert also, c 1320 Sir Tristr.
was boun
Thieves' slang: (see qnot.) Obs.
III. 290 They that
1609 DEKKER Lantharne Wks. 1884-5
are Cheated by lacke in a Boxe, are called Bleaters.
l
as
prec. + -ING .J
Bleating (blrtirj^, vbl. sb. [f.
The crying of a sheep, goat, or calf; also
contemptuously said of human utterances.
xvn. xlvi. (1495) 807 A kydde
1398 THEVISA Barth. De P. R.
Glide
knowyth and sekyth his moder wyth bletyng. 1578
on guk, guk, the Mating
(1868)
Ballates
Godlie
Sing
163
f,
bleatthe
1611 BIBLE Judges v. 16 To heare
of zour queir.
Convert. 588 Known by
ings of the flocks. 1781 COWPER
SCOTT F. M. Perth
thy bleating, Ignorance thy name. 1828
III. 343 The brute beasts in their lowing and bleating.
b. attrib. passing into the ///. a.)
f2.
i
time the cock'773 G WHITE Seloorne xxxix, In breeding
s
noise.
1834 J. FORBES Laennrc
snipes make a bleating
Dis. Chest 429 The voice, having the bleating character
marked.
strongly
inat
[ f- as P rec - + -TNG^.J
ppl- <*
Bleating,
c 1380
WYCLIF Sena.
Sel.
Wks.
I.
139 Bletyng sheep.
tJ9S
.
WTUof
.
Ibid.
\.
.
.
)
action of making a
In relation to blob, b/cb
BLOB and BLUBBER, from the
bubble with the
lips.
cf. top, tip, etc.]
expresses a smaller swelling
also
blister or small swelling on the skin
1.
a similar swelling on plants.
swell.be little
1607 TOPSEI.L Fmir-f. Beasts 319 Wingals.
side the joynt.
1677
ings like blebs or bladders, on either
on the
PLOT Oxfordsh. 174 The blebs or blisters we find
Skin
Dis.
DUHRING
Trees and Shrubs. 1876
;
A
;
leaves of many
228 Blebs may occur in the place of vesicles.
180
1651 MORE Enthns. Triumph (1656)
fig.
of venery, you bags of filth
bubble of air in water, glass,
2.
\ou
blebs
!
A
or
other
substance at some time fluid.
Notes 165/2 Dancing blebs
1647 H. T&OKK Smg of Soul
thil.
and bubbles in the water. 1716 DESAGULIERS in
without Veins
Trans. XXIX. 4 47 The Lens ought to be
8
1861 FURNIVALL San Groat (Roxb.) Pref.
or Blebs.
A green vessel showing by a Web in it that it was of
.
.
.
glass.
.
A
vesicular body.
Trans. LXVI. 15 note, The cell-like
.775 ELLIS in Phil.
LLA *:
divisions are only a row of single blebs of pith.
in round
TON ibid. 105 From the surface oozes out a gum
E. BURTON Handbk. MidwKxs\ 38. 25 Ihe
1880
3.
.
.
blebs.
J.
a little bladder, or bleb.
To furnish with blebs.
prec. sb.]
..bleb
1821 CLARE Vill. Minstr. II. 84 While big drops
the withering hay with pearly gems.
Bleberry, obs. form of BLAEBEBRY.
ovum, or egg,
Bleb,
is
v-
at first
[f-
of blebs or bubbles.
(ble'bi), a. Full
*.>
** w/7 The
mass, when
XLVIII.6S
J ran*. --*.*-.
nil. Trans.
LEWIS in tPhil.
I7tA
,754 LEWIS
of a dull grey colour.
Webby,
rold appeared very porous,
white
a
Webby glass.
1880 DANA Mineral. 431 lit] fuses to
1
en, obs. f. BLESS v.
BleTjbV
Blec(c
Blecere,
m
var.
form of BLECHURE.
north.F. blechier^OY.
Obs.
[a.
the later BLESS v?)
(mod. blcsscr, whence
trans. To wound, hurt, injure.
to wound.]
ober bleche)),
IMO A yenb 40 Sacrilege is huanne me brecb,
Ibid. 147 Huanne me smit bane uot
jie holy binges.
be moub zayb, bou me blechest.
-ER.
Bleche, -er, obs. forms of BLEACH,
Obs. Also 5 blecere. [a.ONF.
t
Bleche,
blecier
:
.
.
tBlechure.
OF. bleceiirc, (modF. blcssure), wound,
see
from bitchier, blecier, blcsser to wound:
BLECHE.] A wound.
of
blechure
hurte
and
1483 CAXTON Gold. Leg. 109/4 Thys
and
blecheiire,
al cure hurtes, blechures
thys peple. Itid. 303/4 In
hurt or blecere any.
sores, c 1500 I'artcnay 3572 Without
blecke.
sb. Obs. exc. dial. Also blek(e,
OE. blttc looks like the adj. blsc, BLACK,
Bleck
[The
used subst. If so, ME. blek(e must be unrepreON. MB* ink
sented in OE., and correspond to
OTeut. type *blakjo,m,
(Sw. black. Da. blxk ink),
.
bleats; also jig.
is unaccounted for. Bleaimt
be compared with ME. geaunt=-
MLG.
may
for *bliant,
:
.
1362
the English and
MHG.
.
1.
.
:
:
t
se clerely.
Of uncertain origin
for clothes, bed-covers, etc.
The appearance of the n in
see Diez and Mahn.
3 Omt.
.
Blurred with run-
bliaut,
MLG.
;
bleate,
4-5 blete, 6 Sc. blait, 6-7
[Com. \VGer. OE.
bleet, 7- bleat.
:blaten
bluzcn, mod.Du.
.
OF.
[ad.
found also in other
;
MHG.
;
.
blialt
bliaut, blizaut,
langs., Pr. blial, bliau,
medL. blialdns, bliaudus, blisaiidiis.
Sp., I'g. Mai,
and
an article of dress, a tunic worn both by men
women often richly embroidered also in
blialt, bliat a silk gold-stuff
bliant, blyant.
cf. mod.G.
bl&tan, of imitative origin
bloken also OSlav. bhjati to bleat, and see ELBA.]
1. intr. To cry. as a sheep, goat, or calf.
blate swa gat. ciooo
a 1000 Riddles (Gr.) xxv. 2 Ic
Itt
/ELI-RIC Gram. xxii. 129 Seep blit. c 1200 ORMIN 1315
ba;r ;ho btete)>t>.
moderr
Hiss
wel
swibe
[lamb] cann cnawenn
bat blete.
litgCfrnfl.
,11300 f: E Psalterlxn-.n Schepe
1611 SHAKS. Hint.
Scat. vi. 39 The scheip began to blait.
bleat
T. I. ii. 68 We were as twyn'd Lambs, that did
The
the one at th' other. 1735 SOMERVILLF. Chase in. 30
in
mournful Ewe Wanders perplex'd, and darkling bleats
calves
the
friends
Our
60
vain.
1859 GEO. ELIOT A. liedc
are bleating from the home croft.
b. trans, (with cognate object.) Also Jo bleat
out to give forth with a bleat.
The tender Flocks their
1719 LVURFEY/W&(i872> IV. 337
Pasture mourn, and bleat a sadder Moan. 1864 SWINBURNE
her
throat for a knife, Bleat
A talanta 936 Let her .. stretch
out her spirit and die. 1871 Ii. TAYLOR Faust I. v. (Chandos)
Should his good-night in lustful gallop
61 An old he-goat
;
myght not
blsetan,
i
WGer.
.
1. lit.
7
= OHG.,
blivtan
i
.
Forms:
earlier
bliat,
Romanic
but
;
:
blate),
with a payre
of Scotlande
1579 GOSSON Sell. Abuse (Arb. 27 Searching
eies.
blearde
1792 BURNS Duncan
for moats with a pair
Grat his een baith bleer't and Win . 1848
Gray, Duncan
.
witch
The
looking into her face
LYTTON Harold i. 307
with bleared and rheumy eyes.
dicitur.
bl/t), v.
bleetenn,
ttt-ei blered {-'.
blerid.e] eisen.
1382 WYCLIF Gen. xxix. 17
Froiss. II.
Lya was with blerid eyen. 1525 Ln. BERNERS
of reed
ning from the eyes blear-eyed.
1500 Ort. I'oc. in Promp. Pan: 39 note, Lippus
of slight authority
HENRY Camp.
J.
Bleat
r.
:
-and,
.
(See quot.)
(bll--ri), sb. rarea bleary,
agst. Quebec 65 Boiling
flour and water.
Bleary
;
Said of the face or person
is
which was no other than
:
2.
:
blehand. bleaunt, bleeaunt.
1
:
see BLEAR v. 1 3.
matter, or inflammation. Alsoyf^.
c 1340 Ga'.u. * Gr. Knt. 962 pe tweyne yjen were, .sellyly
Bitel-brouwed with
blered
1362 LANGL. P. PI. A v. 109
.
quot.
4th
-yd so that blery
:
Col. Clout 955
rest.
the eyes.
BLEAKNESS.] More or less blear of
and
1307 LANGL. P. PI. C. vn. 198 He was bytelbrowed
Francion
24 The
with
two
1655
blery eyen.
baBerlupped
1770 ARMSTRONG
glutinous quality of that blearie humour.
own disImitat (1859) 82 He with bleary eye Blazons his
were
1810 TANNAHILL Poems (1846) 117 The comers
grace
Blackw.
Mag.
blearie.
were
1830
cheery, the gangers
XXVII. 436 His little red bleary eyes.
-t-
.
To draw their bleating flocks to
i6siCALDERWoOD///.A7rA(i843ni.i57 Ihequeene
and her bleeting preests. 1884 BLACK Jlid. Sluiks. xxxi,
dams comfort.
Lambs, with bleating oratory, craved the
t Bleaunt. Obs. Forms 4 blihant, -and,
+ -NESS.]
a.
cf.
4 bleried,
Bleared (blljd), ///. a.
4-5 blerid, 4-6 blered, 5 bleryd, bleryed, (Sc.)
8 (Sc.)
bleirit, 6 blerde, bleered, 6-7 bleard,
BLEAR v.'1 -ED.]
[f.
bleerit, 6- bleared,
Dimmed with tears, morbid
1. Of the eyes
Kyng Robert
BLEAK
Bleary
. .
blered eyen.
[f.
n. ii. 50 Blerenes of the
1543 TRAHERON Vigo's Chirurg.
There shal
IS8S LLOYD Treas. Health A),
eyflfddes.
many be troubled with blernesse. 1748 legetms Distemp.
the
of
Blearness
Eyes.
Horses 157 A great
BLEAR a. (or ? sb.) + -i '.
[f.
(bli^-ri), a.
all MSS. save one read blered,
c.
In the 1
>
Forms
arch, or Obs.
SPENSER
Blearedness (of the eyes).
trans. To blear (out) the
blear with the tongue,
tongue (at, against, upon).
a 1340 HAMPOLE Pr. Consc. 2226 And grymly gryn on hym
and Were, c 1430 Hymns Virg. (1867 60 While bou art a
A eychild With bi tunge on folk bou bleere. 1481 CAXTON
<j/(Arb.) 86 The asse bleryd, grennyd and songe. 1530
knave
The
Ibid.
PALSGR. 457/2, I bleare with the tonge.
\ pon
bleareth his tonge at me. 1535 COVERDALF Isa. Ivn. 4
whom gape ye with youre mouth, & bleare out youre
once to
Not
xxix.
Perlc
115881
279
Spir.
tonge? ISSO
blear or to open their mouths against it. 1605 Br. ANDREWES
Serm. ii. 173 Wagging their heads, writhing their mouths,
yea blearing out their tongues.
v.
*I Cf. the following, and BLARE
1616 T SCOTT Christ's Polit. 7 All that the silly sheep
can do, is only to bleare and bleate a little with his tongue.
x 21
BLECK.
912
BLEARED.
(.
*blak- BLACK.]
re a Black fluid substance spec, ink (flto.) < a P P
for blackration used by curriers and shoemakers
blatch, bleach)
ing leather (also called bletch,
black grease round an axle or other re(obs.) ;
volving part, north, dial.
Laws II. 244) V e laerao
\cyjo K. EADGAR Canons (Anc.
habban btec and bocfell to heora jerxdnessum.
bit hi
hicaust-um vel
oo ^ELFR.C Gloss. Wr.-Wiilcker Voc. 164
1.
;
.
. .
I0
btec.)
ri44 /''"'/./"' 39 Bleke[H99
att >a
1483 Cat/,. Angl. 34 Blek
blecke], atramcntuni.
in
a,et,, m
,
my
This Nycht
c 1503 DUNBAR
'thou [sowttar] sains
'Fy' quod the Feynd,
LEVINS
me.'
to
cum
and
1570
of blek, Go clenge the clene,
U'hitby Gloss.,
Manit. 47 Blecke, bleche, atramentnm. 1855axle
of a cartor grease at the
Bleck, the dirty-looking oil
in Holderness
wheel. 1876 in Mid. Yorhsh. Gloss. 1877
'
men attrammtimi.
Sl-i't>'
vii
Glass., etc.
2
.
Soot or smut, a particle of soot,
c ,590 A. HUME Ef. C. Moncrief,
to correck, That in himself has ony
blackamoor, b.
3 a.
A
A
n
.
(btill sc.)
The Censor is impropre
kmde of bleck.
blackguard, motive.