Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having sore eyes; having the eyes dimmed or inflamed by flowing tears or rheum; dim-sighted.
  • Wanting in perception or understanding; short-sighted.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted.
  • adjective Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted.

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  • adjective tired to the point of exhaustion

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Examples

  • The chief was alone with his blear-eyed wife, but a glance sufficed to tell Mackenzie that the news was already told.

    The Sun of the Wolf 2010

  • He remembered the days when some of the old men, still alive, had been born; and, unlike him, they were now decrepit, shaken with palsy, blear-eyed, toothless of mouth, deaf of ear, or paralysed.

    CHAPTER XI 2010

  • (London received $530 for this story on August 14, 1905.) "TO cook by your fire and to sleep under your roof for the night," I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.

    The White Man's Way 2010

  • They sat down together on the floor, and she patted Frona's hand lovingly, peering, meanwhile, blear-eyed and misty, into her face.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • The Emperor grew more weak-legged and blear-eyed what of the ingenious deviltries devised for him by

    Chapter 15 2010

  • The chief was alone with his blear-eyed wife, but a glance sufficed to tell Mackenzie that the news was already told.

    The Son of the Wolf 2010

  • I had announced on entering old Ebbits's cabin; and he had looked at me blear-eyed and vacuous, while Zilla had favored me with a sour face and a contemptuous grunt.

    THE WHITE MAN'S WAY 2010

  • A blear-eyed ancient stood before him, balancing on a single crutch.

    CHAPTER 2 2010

  • In "The White Man's Way" (New York Tribune Sunday Magazine, November 4, 1906), Old Ebbits, "blear-eyed and vacuous," and his wife Zilla ( "no more bitter-tongued, implacable old squaw dwelt on the Yukon") are visited by a white man who shares his moose meat, tea and tobacco with them.

    “I ain't never goin' to work again. . . . I'm plum tired out.” 2008

  • Sleepy grooms rose, blear-eyed, to take the horses of their English guests, a company of twenty men.

    A Caregiver's Homage To The Very Old 2010

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