See also: Bisson

English

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Etymology

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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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Adjective

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bisson (comparative more bisson, superlative most bisson)

  1. (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.
  2. (obsolete) Blinding.

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Picard

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Etymology

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Compare French buisson

Noun

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bisson (m)

  1. A bush (shrub, woody plant, like a small trunkless tree)