Brewer's: Bisson

or Bisen [blind] is the Anglo-Saxon bisen. Shakespeare (Hamlet, ii. 2) speaks of bisson rheum (blinding tears), and in Coriolanus, ii. 1, “What harm can your bisson conspectuities glean out of this character?”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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