different between bleareyed vs bleareye

English

From Middle English blerey?ed, blere i?ed, bler-yed, equivalent to blear +? eyed. Cognate with Low German bleeroged (“bleareyed”).

bleareyed (comparative more bleareyed, superlative most bleareyed)

blear +? eye

bleareye (uncountable)

(medicine) A disease of the eyelids, involving chronic inflammation of the margins, with a gummy secretion of sebaceous matter.
(Can we find and add a quotation of Dunglison to this entry?)

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