Note: The silvery pigment lining the scales of the bleak is used in the manufacture of artificial pearls. Baird.
BLEAKY
Bleak"y, a.
Defn: Bleak. [Obs.] Dryden.
BLEAR
Blear, a. Etym: [See Blear, v.]
1. Dim or sore with water or rheum; — said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden.
2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.
BLEAR
Blear, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Bleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Blearing.] Etym:
[OE. bleren; cf. Dan. plire to blink, Sw. plira to twinkle, wink, LG.
plieren; perh. from the same root as E. blink. See Blink, and cf.
Blur.]
Defn: 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.
BLEARED
Bleared, a.
Defn: Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.
— Blear"ed*ness (, n.
Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue
of the exploit. Shak.