bisson
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]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.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]bisson (comparative more bisson, superlative most bisson)
- (obsolete) Sandblind, purblind.
- 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:
- He was a septuagenary, […] He was rugose, pachydermatous, bottlenosed, almost bisson, breviped, tardigradous, and affected with trepidation, partial surdity, and most perceptible seity. Archaisms, exoticisms, and exolete lingo marked his allocution to the conflux.
- (obsolete) Blinding.
- c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
- Run bare-foote vp and downe,
Threatning the flame
With Biſſon Rheume […]
Anagrams
[edit]Picard
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]bisson (m)
- A bush (“shrub, woody plant, like a small trunkless tree”)
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