[f. prec.]
1. An outburst of tears, a sudden fit of weeping: (Sc.)
a. 1796. Burns, Braw Lads of Gala W., iii. The lassie lost a silken snood, That cost her mony a blirt and bleary.
2. A short dash of rain coming with a gust of wind. (Sc. and Naut.)
1810. [see BLIRTY.]
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Blirt, a gust of wind and rain.
