Lear vs Blear - What's the difference?
lear | blear |
Something learned; a lesson.
Learning, lore; doctrine.
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.vii:
* 1898 , (Francis James Child) (editor), Lord William, or Lord Lundy , from ,
(transitive, archaic, and, Scotland) To teach.
(archaic) To learn.
* 14thC , (Geoffrey Chaucer), The Canon's Yeoman's Prologue and Tale , from ,
(of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.
* Charles Dickens
* 1981 , John Gardner, Freddy's Book , Abacus 1982, p. 74:
Causing or caused by dimness of sight.
* Milton
As verbs the difference between lear and blear
is that lear is (transitive|archaic|and|scotland) to teach while blear is to make blurred or dim, especially the eyes.As a noun lear
is something learned; a lesson or lear can be .As an adjective blear is
(of eyes or vision) dim, unclear from water or rheum.lear
English
Etymology 1
Noun
- when all other helpes she saw to faile, / She turnd her selfe backe to her wicked leares / And by her deuilish arts thought to preuaile [...].
- They dressed up in maids' array,
- And passd for sisters fair;
- With ae consent gaed ower the sea,
- For to seek after lear .
Etymology 2
See (lere)Verb
(en verb)- He hath take on him many a great emprise,
- Which were full hard for any that is here
- To bring about, but they of him it lear .
Etymology 3
See (lehr)Anagrams
* ---- ==Volapük==Declension
(vo-decl-noun)blear
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin.
- The Devil, now disguised as a half-wit peasant to Lars-Goren's left, stood grinning, his blear eyes glittering.
- Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion.