Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Blind or purblind; blinding: as, “bisson rheum, “
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Purblind; blinding.
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- adjective archaic
sandblind ,purblind - adjective archaic
blinding
Etymologies
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Examples
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'bisson' (_i. e._ purblind), a recognised Elizabethan word which
A Life of William Shakespeare with portraits and facsimiles Sidney Lee 1892
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I love my daughter (hannah leigh bisson) with unconditional love.
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If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? what barm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?
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What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood Drag to Playlist
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood
WN.com - Articles related to Stocks, baht surge as march abandoned 2010
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But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood Drag to Playlist
WN.com - Articles related to Stocks, baht surge as march abandoned 2010
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If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? what barm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?
Coriolanus 1607
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Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head,
super-rb commented on the word bisson
bisson-adj.shortsighted,purblind
October 17, 2008
super-rb commented on the word bisson
A word used by shakespeare
October 17, 2008
bilby commented on the word bisson
See citation on conspectuity.
August 28, 2009