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blear-eyed
blear-eyed, a. (ˈblɪərˈaɪd) [f. blear eye + -ed.] 1. lit. Having blear eyes.1382 Wyclif Lev. xxi. 20 If crokid-rigge or bleereyed [1388 blereiȝed]. 1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. xx. 306 Þorw smoke and smorþre..Til he be bler-eyed oþer blynde. 1526 Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 153 b, Lya was blere-eyed, & my... Oxford English Dictionary
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Archedemus of Athens
Both Aristophanes and Lysias call him "blear-eyed" (). Notes 5th-century BC Athenians wikipedia.org
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bleary
▪ I. bleary, a. (ˈblɪərɪ) [f. blear a. (or ? n.) + -y1. In the 14th c. quot. all MSS. save one read blered, -id, -yd: so that blery is of slight authority; but cf. bleariness.] a. More or less blear of the eyes.1393 Langl. P. Pl. C. vii. 198 He was bytelbrowed and baberlupped · with two blery eyen. ... Oxford English Dictionary
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flabby
flabby, a. (ˈflæbɪ) [An onomatopœic modification of the earlier flappy; the voiced ending in flab- as compared with flap- gives to the syllable a feebler effect suited to the meaning. Cf. Du. flabberen (of a breeze) to flutter; Sw. dial. fläbb the hanging underlip of an animal. With sense 2 cf. slab... Oxford English Dictionary
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History of Keyser, West Virginia
One eyewitness complained of the rebels' behavior: [T]he chief thief among the rebels was a drunken, blear-eyed, pug nosed Major Mason, son of Ex-Senator wikipedia.org
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lippitude
lippitude Now rare. (ˈlɪpɪtjuːd) Also 7 lipitude. [ad. L. lippitūd-o (f. lippus blear-eyed), either directly or through F. lippitude.] Soreness of the eyes; blearedness; an instance of this.1626 Bacon Sylva §297 Such are Pestilences, Lippitudes, and such like. 1661 Lovell Hist. Anim. & Min. 121 The ... Oxford English Dictionary
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Henry Morton Stanley
Cringing and hypocritical, cowardly and debased, treacherous and mean ... this syphilitic, blear-eyed, pallid-skinned, abortion of an Africanized Arab. wikipedia.org
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blear
▪ I. blear, a. (blɪə(r)) Forms: 5–6 blere, 6–7 bleare, 7 bleer(e, 7– blear. [ME. blere, an epithet of the eyes: this and the cognate verb are of uncertain origin. There are no corresponding words in OE., and the only cognates in other Teutonic langs. are the mod.G. blerr soreness of the eyes, LG. bl... Oxford English Dictionary
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weazen
▪ I. weazen, a. (ˈwiːz(ə)n) Also 8 weezen, 9 weasen. Altered form of wizen a.1765 Foote Commissary i. 10 His little weezen face as sharp as a razor. 1793 C. Smith Old Manor House I. iii. (ed. 2) 53 However she may set her weazen face against it..she likes at the bottom of her heart a young fellow of... Oxford English Dictionary
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wapper
▪ I. † ˈwapper, n. Obs. rare—1. [a. Du. wapper, cogn. with wapperen to swing: see next.] ? A (leaden) ball attached to a strap used as a striking weapon. So † ˈwapper v.1 trans., to strike (a person) with this weapon.1481 Caxton Reynard (Arb.) 16 That one had an leden malle and that other a grete le... Oxford English Dictionary
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eyedness
eyedness, n. (ˈaɪdnəs) [f. eyed ppl. a. + -ness; cf. handedness n.] 1. As the second element of combs., as blear-eyedness (blear-eyed a.), cock-eyedness (cock-eyed a.), cross-eyedness, one-eyedness (one-eyed a. 26), etc.c 1440 Promp. Parv. 39 Blerydnesse. 1591 R. Percivall Spanish Dict., Entordatura... Oxford English Dictionary
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collier
collier (ˈkɒlɪə(r)) Forms: 4 kolier, cholier, 5 colyȝere, colȝer(e, coliare, coler, 5–6 colyer, colier, (coilȝear), 6 colyar, coliar, 6–7 colliar, collyer, (8 coallier), 6– collier. [ME. colier, colyer, etc., f. col, coal, app. after words from Fr. in -ier, q.v. The Sc. coilȝear, and other ME. spell... Oxford English Dictionary
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gummy
▪ I. gummy, a.1 (ˈgʌmɪ) Forms: 6–7 gummie, (7 goomie, gommie), 4– gummy. [f. gum n.2 + -y1.] 1. Of the nature of gum; gum-like, sticky, viscid.1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. lxxviii. (1495) 651 The beste kynde of gutta..semyth yf it be broke shynynge wythin and gummy. a 1520 Skelton E. Rummyng 25... Oxford English Dictionary
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sodden
▪ I. sodden, pa. pple., ppl. a., and n. (ˈsɒd(ə)n) Forms: α. 4–5 soþen (4 soþin, soiþen); 4–5 sothen (4 soothen, 5 sothyn). β. 4–5 sodyn, 5 sodun, sooden, 5–6 soden (5 -one, 6 -yng, Sc. -in); 5– sodden (Sc. 5–6 soddyn, 6 -in). [Strong pa. pple. of seethe v. Cf. sod pa. pple., etc.] 1. Boiled; cooked... Oxford English Dictionary
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parade
▪ I. parade, n. (pəˈreɪd) [a. F. parade (15th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ‘a (boasting) apparance, or shew; a brauado, or vaunting offer’ (Cotgr.); ad. It. parata ‘a warding or defending; a dighting or garish setting forth’ (Florio 1611), Sp. parada ‘a staying or stopping, also, a standing or staying place’... Oxford English Dictionary
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