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blear eye en · NOUN

Etymology

From blear + eye.

Meanings

  1. (uncountable) A disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
    • LIPPITU′DO, Ophthal′mia chron′ica of some. Lippitude, Blear eye, Lappa, Lipa, Xerophthal′mia, Lema, Lemē, Glama, Gramia. [1839, Robley Dunglison, “LIPPITUDO”, in Medical Lexicon. A New Dictionary of Medical Science, […], 2nd edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Lea and Blanchard, successors to Carey and Co., →OCLC, page 362: