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Somewhat blear.

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• SOMEWHAT
  1. More or less; a certain quantity or degree; a part, more or less; something. These salts have somewhat of a nitrous taste. Grew. Somewhat of his good sense will suffer, in this transfusion, and much of the beauty of his thoughts will be lost.
• BLEAR-EYED
  1. Having sore eyes; having the eyes dim with rheum; dim-sighted. The blear-eyed Crispin. Drant. 2. Lacking in perception or penetration; short-sighted; as, a blear- eyed bigot.
• BLEARY
  Somewhat blear.
• BLEAREYEDNESS
  The state of being blear-eyed.
• BLEAREYE
  A disease of the eyelids, consisting in chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter. Dunglison.
• BLEARED
  Dimmed, as by a watery humor; affected with rheum. -- Blear"ed*ness (, n. Dardanian wives, With bleared visages, come forth to view The issue of the exploit. Shak.
• BLEAR
  1. Dim or sore with water or rheum; -- said of the eyes. His blear eyes ran in gutters to his chin. Dryden. 2. Causing or caused by dimness of sight; dim. Power to cheat the eye with blear illusion. Milton.