English English Dictionary

The act or process of whitening, by removing color or stains; esp. the process of whitening fabrics by chemical agents.

Without color; pale; pallid.

Desolate and exposed; swept by cold winds.

Cold and cutting; cheerless; as, a bleak blast.

A small European river fish (Leuciscus alburnus), of the family Cyprinidae; the blay.

Bleak.

Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes.

Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim.

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.

Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear-eyed bigot.

Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.

of Blear

Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum.

A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.

The state of being blear-eyed.

of Blear

Somewhat blear.

To make the noise of, or one like that of, a sheep; to cry like a sheep or calf.

A plaintive cry of, or like that of, a sheep.

of Bleat