Middle English Dictionary Entry
blēring(e ger.(1)
Entry Info
| Forms | blēring(e ger.(1) |
| Etymology |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Blearing; (b) weeping; (c) ~ of eie, hoodwinking.
Associated quotations
a
- a1500(?a1425) Lambeth SSecr.(Lamb 501)80/36 : Wyn þat ys taken abundanly..engendrys..blerynge of eyen.
b
- c1540(?a1400) Destr.Troy (Htrn 388)9134 : The teris..Þat blaknet with bleryng all hir ble qwite.
c
- (c1390) Chaucer CT.Rv.(Manly-Rickert)A.3865 : With bleryng of a proud milleres eye.