Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Blind or purblind; blinding: as, “bisson rheum, “

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Purblind; blinding.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective archaic sandblind, purblind
  • adjective archaic blinding

Etymologies

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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.

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  • bisson-adj.shortsighted,purblind

    October 17, 2008

  • A word used by shakespeare

    October 17, 2008

  • See citation on conspectuity.

    August 28, 2009