[f. BLEAR v.1]

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  1.  The condition of being bleared, blearedness.

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1542.  Udall, Erasm. Apoph., 59 a. Lippitudo Atticae, that is, the bleryng of Attica.

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  2.  The action of making blear; fig. deception.

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c. 1386.  Chaucer, Reeves T., 11. Ful wel coude I the quyte With bleryng of a prowd mylleres ye.

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c. 1400.  Destr. Troy, 9134. The teris þat trickilt on her tryet chekes … blaknet with bleryng all hir ble qwite.

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  3.  transf. The guttering of a candle; as resembling the rheum which blears the eyes.

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1705.  Berkeley, in Fraser, Life (1871), 509. I know not what more fitly to compare it to than to the blearings of a candle.

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