a. [ AS.; akin to D., G., OS., Sw., & Dan. blind, Icel. blindr, Goth. blinds; of uncertain origin. ] 1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. [ 1913 Webster ]

He that is strucken blind can not forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Not having the faculty of discernment; destitute of intellectual light; unable or unwilling to understand or judge; as, authors are blind to their own defects. [ 1913 Webster ]

But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more,
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. [ 1913 Webster ]

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation. Jay. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; as, a blind path; a blind ditch. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. [ 1913 Webster ]

The blind mazes of this tangled wood. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. (Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. [ 1913 Webster ]

Blind alley, an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac. --
Blind axle, an axle which turns but does not communicate motion. Knight. --
Blind beetle, one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. --
Blind cat (Zool.), a species of catfish (Gronias nigrolabris), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania. --
Blind coal, coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal. Simmonds. --
Blind door,
Blind window, an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or Blank window, under Blank, a. --
Blind level (Mining), a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon. Knight. --
Blind nettle (Bot.), dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. --
Blind shell (Gunnery), a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode. --
Blind side, the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger. Swift. --
Blind snake (Zool.), a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. --
Blind spot (Anat.), the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light. --
Blind tooling, in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also blank tooling, and blind blocking. --
Blind wall, a wall without an opening; a blank wall. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding. ] 1. To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. “To blind the truth and me.” Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. South. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Her beauty all the rest did blind. P. Fletcher. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Such darkness blinds the sky. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. [ Cf. F. blindes, p&unr_;., fr. G. blende, fr. blenden to blind, fr. blind blind. ] (Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. A halting place. [ Obs. ] Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. blindage. ] (Mil.) A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } n. See Blende. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. deprived of one's sight; rendered blind. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. One who, or that which, blinds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Saddlery) One of the leather screens on a bridle, to hinder a horse from seeing objects at the side; a blinker. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Blindfolded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blindfolding. ] [ OE. blindfolden, blindfelden, blindfellen; AS. blind blind + prob. fellan, fyllan, to fell, strike down. ] To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. [ 1913 Webster ]

And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the eyes covered; blinded; having the mental eye darkened. Hence: Heedless; reckless; as, blindfold zeal; blindfold fury. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fate's blindfold reign the atheist loudly owns. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. a flexible object placed over the eyes to prevent seeing; usually a strip of cloth wrapped around the head so as to cover the eyes. [ PJC ]

adj. having a blindfold placed over the eyes; -- done to prevent the wearer from seeing.
Syn. -- blindfold. [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

a. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thin coating of sand and fine gravel over a newly paved road. See Blind, v. t., 4. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. Without sight, discernment, or understanding; without thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. [ 1913 Webster ]

By his imperious mistress blindly led. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ See Buff a buffet. ] A game in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the other players, and tell who it is. [ 1913 Webster ]

Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet. [ 1913 Webster ]

The time between daylight and candle light. [ Humorous ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. [ 1913 Webster ]

Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism. [ 1913 Webster ]

. A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. to attack a person from his blind side; metaphorically, to give a person an unpleasant suprise. He had completed his plan to develop a new office building, but was blindsided by the sudden drop in real estate values. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Arch.) The triforium as opposed to the clearstory. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) A small, burrowing, snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. unable to see the color blue or to distinguish the colors blue and yellow.
Syn. -- tritanopic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. inability to distinguish blue and yellow.
Syn. -- tritanopia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. Unable to see the color green or to distinguish green and purplish-red.
Syn. -- deuteranopic. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A defect of color vision characterized by inability to distinguish green and purplish-red.
Syn. -- deuteranopia, daltonism. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

a. Dim-sighted; purblind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Probably influenced by pore, v. See Purblind. ] Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For pure-blind, i. e., wholly blind. See Pure, and cf. Poreblind. ] 1. Wholly blind. “Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight.” Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nearsighted, or dim-sighted; seeing obscurely; as, a purblind eye; a purblind mole. [ 1913 Webster ]

The saints have not so sharp eyes to see down from heaven; they be purblindand sand-blind. Latimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

O purblind race of miserable men. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

-- Pur"blind`ly, adv. -- Pur"blind`ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ For sam blind half blind; AS. sām- half (akin to semi-) + blind. ] Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. -- Snow"-blind`ness, n. [1913 Webster]

a. Half blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Blind as a stock; wholly blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. As blind as a stone; completely blind. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + blind. ] To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of. [ R. ] J. Webster (1607). [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ 1st pref. un- + blindfold. ] To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser. [ 1913 Webster ]