See blear on Wiktionary
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"text": "18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403,\nOrpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian,\nThe crowder of that barb’rous nation,\nWas ballad-singer by vocation;"
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"text": "1917, Madge Morris, The “Red Wind Blows” in The Lure of the Desert Land and Other Poems, San Francisco: Har Wagner, p. 83,\nLet loose thy snow-winged dove, to rise\nAnd fly across the seething blood-mad world.\nTo flutter over fields where that dread Silence is!\nTo light on upturned faces blearing at the skies\nAnd curiously peck at dead men’s eyes."
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"ref": "1584, Anonymous, Sonnet, in Clement Robinson et al., A Handefull of Pleasnt Delites, London: Richard Ihones, reprinted from the original edition for the Spenser Society, 1871, p. 52, I Smile to ſee how you deuiſe, New maſking nets my eies to bleare",
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"ref": "c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 227, columns 1–2:",
"text": "Here’s Lucentio, right ſonne to the right Vincentio,\nThat haue by marriage made thy daughter mine,\nWhile counterfeit ſuppoſes bleer’d thine eine.",
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"ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 37:",
"text": "[…] if it come to prohibiting, there is not ought more likely to be prohibited then truth it ſelf; whoſe firſt appearance to our eyes blear’d and dimm’d with prejudice and cuſtom, is more unſightly and unplauſible then many errors, ev’n as the perſon is of many a great man ſlight and contemptible to ſee to.",
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"ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 7:",
"text": "[…] I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.",
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"ref": "1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter III (The Lauriston Gardens Mystery), page 17:",
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"ref": "1928, Frank Parker Day, chapter 1, in Rockbound:",
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"ref": "1865, Alfred Billings Street, “My Canoe”, in Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks, New York: Gregory, page 33:",
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"text": "1888, David Atwood Wasson, “Babes of God” Part II in Poems, Boston: Lee & Shepard, p. 36,\nNow, one among the foremost, looking up\nBy chance, with horror saw, in farthest sky\nFronting their course, a troublous film of cloud,—\nA strange, dark, troublous film of cloud,—\nBlearing the beauty of the crystal wall."
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zamǎglen",
"sense": "dim",
"word": "замъглен"
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"roman": "nejasen",
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"word": "неясен"
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"word": "mętny"
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"sense": "dim",
"word": "kaprawy"
}
],
"word": "blear"
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"text": "18th c., attributed to Jonathan Swift, “The Story of Orpheus, Burlesqued,” in Walter Scott (ed.), The Works of Jonathan Swift, Boston: Houghton, Mifflin & Co., 2nd edition, 1883, Volume 10, p. 403,\nOrpheus, a one-eyed blearing Thracian,\nThe crowder of that barb’rous nation,\nWas ballad-singer by vocation;"
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{
"ref": "1886, John Grosvenor Wilson, “A Rainy Day in Town”, in Lyrics of Life, New York: Caxton Book Concern, page 146:",
"text": "The street-lamps blearing thro’ the rainy rout,\nEach like a winking, sickly evil-eye.",
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"text": "1917, Madge Morris, The “Red Wind Blows” in The Lure of the Desert Land and Other Poems, San Francisco: Har Wagner, p. 83,\nLet loose thy snow-winged dove, to rise\nAnd fly across the seething blood-mad world.\nTo flutter over fields where that dread Silence is!\nTo light on upturned faces blearing at the skies\nAnd curiously peck at dead men’s eyes."
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"ref": "1584, Anonymous, Sonnet, in Clement Robinson et al., A Handefull of Pleasnt Delites, London: Richard Ihones, reprinted from the original edition for the Spenser Society, 1871, p. 52, I Smile to ſee how you deuiſe, New maſking nets my eies to bleare",
"roman": "But as you are, you muſt appeare.",
"text": "your ſelf you cannot ſo diſguiſe:"
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"ref": "c. 1590–1592 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Taming of the Shrew”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act V, scene i], page 227, columns 1–2:",
"text": "Here’s Lucentio, right ſonne to the right Vincentio,\nThat haue by marriage made thy daughter mine,\nWhile counterfeit ſuppoſes bleer’d thine eine.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 37:",
"text": "[…] if it come to prohibiting, there is not ought more likely to be prohibited then truth it ſelf; whoſe firſt appearance to our eyes blear’d and dimm’d with prejudice and cuſtom, is more unſightly and unplauſible then many errors, ev’n as the perſon is of many a great man ſlight and contemptible to ſee to.",
"type": "quote"
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{
"ref": "1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, chapter I, in Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, →OCLC, part I (The Old Buccaneer), page 7:",
"text": "[…] I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow, and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, bleared scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting far gone in rum, with his arms on the table.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1887, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “A Study in Scarlet”, in Beeton’s Christmas Annual, London, New York, N.Y., Melbourne, Vic.: Ward, Lock & Co., part I (Being a reprint from the reminiscences of John H. Watson, M.D., […]), chapter III (The Lauriston Gardens Mystery), page 17:",
"text": "The latter looked out with three tiers of vacant melancholy windows, which were blank and dreary, save that here and there a “To Let” card had developed like a cataract upon the bleared panes.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1928, Frank Parker Day, chapter 1, in Rockbound:",
"text": "He was useful to the man, for his sharp young eyes could pick up net or trawl buoys, white with a stripe of scarlet, far quicker than the rum-bleared eyes of his stepfather.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1865, Alfred Billings Street, “My Canoe”, in Forest Pictures in the Adirondacks, New York: Gregory, page 33:",
"text": "When winter blears bleakly the forest,\nAnd the water binds gray to its blue,\nSafe and sound in her covert I leave her,\nTill spring calls again my canoe.",
"type": "quote"
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"text": "1888, David Atwood Wasson, “Babes of God” Part II in Poems, Boston: Lee & Shepard, p. 36,\nNow, one among the foremost, looking up\nBy chance, with horror saw, in farthest sky\nFronting their course, a troublous film of cloud,—\nA strange, dark, troublous film of cloud,—\nBlearing the beauty of the crystal wall."
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"ref": "1946, Mervyn Peake, “Here and There”, in Titus Groan, London: Eyre & Spottiswoode:",
"text": "He stared at but did not see the bleared reflection of the flanking cherubs a hundred feet above the steel-grey veneer of water.",
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"lang": "Bulgarian",
"roman": "zamǎgljavam",
"sense": "make blurred or dim",
"word": "замъглявам"
},
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"code": "mi",
"lang": "Maori",
"sense": "make blurred or dim",
"word": "whakamakaro"
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"sense": "make blurred or dim",
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