Sentence:  ... I remember observing the contrast the neat, bright doctor, with his powder as white as snow and his bright, black eyes and pleasant manners, made with the coltish country folk, and above all, with that filthy, heavy, <WSD>bleared</WSD> scarecrow of a pirate of ours, sitting, far gone in rum, with his arms on the table. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  To make blurred or dim.