Definitions
Etymologies
- From Middle English bisen, bisne ("blind, purblind"), from Old English bisene ("blind"), probably from bi- ("near") + sīen ("sight") in the sense of "near-sighted, short-sighted". Compare Dutch bijziende ("mole-eyed"), German beisichtig ("short-sighted"). More at by, see. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“bisson' (_i. e._ purblind), a recognised Elizabethan word which”
“I love my daughter (hannah leigh bisson) with unconditional love.”
“What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?”
“But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood Drag to Playlist”
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“But who, O, who had seen the mobled queen 'Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head Where late the diadem stood”
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“If you see this in the map of my microcosm, follows it that I am known well enough too? what barm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character, if I be known well enough too?”
“Run barefoot up and down, threatening the flames With bisson rheum; a clout upon that head,”
“{317b} Collier doubtless followed Theobald's hint when he pretended to have found in his 'Perkins Folio' the extremely happy emendation (now generally adopted) of 'bisson multitude' for 'bosom multiplied' in”
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Great words that have become obsolete
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bilby See citation on conspectuity. Aug 28, 2009
super-rb A word used by shakespeare Oct 17, 2008
super-rb bisson-adj.shortsighted,purblind Oct 17, 2008