[f. BLEAR a. (or ? sb.) + -Y1.]. In the 14th c. quot. all MSS. save one read blered, -id, -yd: so that blery is of slight authority; but cf. BLEARINESS.] More or less blear of the eyes.
1393. Langl., P. Pl., C. VII. 198. He was bytelbrowed and baberlupped · with two blery eyen.
1655. Francion, 24. The glutinous quality of that blearie humour.
1770. Armstrong, Imitat. (1859), 82. He with bleary eye Blazons his own disgrace.
1810. Tannahill, Poems (1846), 117. The comers were cheery, the gangers were blearie.
1830. Blackw. Mag., XXVII. 436. His little red bleary eyes.
