a. Having much intellectual power. -- A`ble-mind"ed*ness, n. [1913 Webster]

v. t. [ L. absindere; ab + scindere to rend, cut. See Schism. ] To cut off. [ R. ] “Two syllables . . . abscinded from the rest.” Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Absent in mind; abstracted; preoccupied. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ness, n. -- Ab`sent-mind"ed*ly, adv. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like-minded. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. a red-skinned member of a race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived.
Syn. -- Indian, native American, Amerindian, Red Indian [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to American Indians
Syn. -- Amerindian, Amerind, Amerindic, Indian, native American [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adj. 1. relating to British India or the English in India, or to the English and East Indian peoples or languages. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. 1. a person of English citizenship born or living in India. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. One of the Anglo-Indian race born or resident in the East Indies. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. ataindre, ateindre, to accuse, convict. Attainder is often erroneously referred to F. teindre tie stain. See Attaint, Attain. ] 1. The act of attainting, or the state of being attainted; the extinction of the civil rights and capacities of a person, consequent upon sentence of death or outlawry; as, an act of attainder. Abbott. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Formerly attainder was the inseparable consequence of a judicial or legislative sentence for treason or felony, and involved the forfeiture of all the real and personal property of the condemned person, and such “corruption of blood” that he could neither receive nor transmit by inheritance, nor could he sue or testify in any court, or claim any legal protection or rights. In England attainders are now abolished, and in the United States the Constitution provides that no bill of attainder shall be passed; and no attainder of treason (in consequence of a judicial sentence) shall work corruption of blood or forfeiture, except during the life of the person attainted. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Arch.) A window forming a bay or recess in a room, and projecting outward from the wall, either in a rectangular, polygonal, or semicircular form; -- often corruptly called a bow window.
Syn. -- bay window, bow window, bow-window. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

2. a protruding abdomen. [ informal ]
Syn. -- belly, paunch, pot, potbelly, corporation, tummy. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). [ 1913 Webster ]

prep. [ AS. behindan; pref. be- + hindan. See Hind, a. ] 1. On the side opposite the front or nearest part; on the back side of; at the back of; on the other side of; as, behind a door; behind a hill. [ 1913 Webster ]

A tall Brabanter, behind whom I stood. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Left after the departure of, whether this be by removing to a distance or by death. [ 1913 Webster ]

A small part of what he left behind him. Pope. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Left a distance by, in progress of improvement Hence: Inferior to in dignity, rank, knowledge, or excellence, or in any achievement. [ 1913 Webster ]

I was not a whit behind the very chiefest apostles. 2 Cor. xi. 5. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. 1. At the back part; in the rear. “I shall not lag behind.” Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Toward the back part or rear; backward; as, to look behind. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Not yet brought forward, produced, or exhibited to view; out of sight; remaining. [ 1913 Webster ]

We can not be sure that there is no evidence behind. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Backward in time or order of succession; past. [ 1913 Webster ]

Forgetting those things which are behind. Phil. ii. 13. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. After the departure of another; as, to stay behind. [ 1913 Webster ]

Leave not a rack behind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The backside; the rump. [ Low ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. & a. [ Behind + hand. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. In arrears financially; in a state where expenditures have exceeded the receipt of funds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. In a state of backwardness, in respect to what is seasonable or appropriate, or as to what should have been accomplished; not equally forward with some other person or thing; dilatory; backward; late; tardy; as, behindhand in studies or in work. [ 1913 Webster ]

In this also [ dress ] the country are very much behindhand. Addison. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. That which binds or ties. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any twining or climbing plant or stem, esp. a hop vine; a bine. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Metal.) Indurated clay, when much mixed with the oxide of iron. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Mus.) A ligature or tie for grouping notes. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. Bound p. p. Bound, formerly Bounden p. pr. & vb. n. Binding. ] [ AS. bindan, perfect tense band, bundon, p. p. bunden; akin to D. & G. binden, Dan. binde, Sw. & Icel. binda, Goth. bindan, Skr. bandh (for bhandh) to bind, cf. Gr. &unr_; (for &unr_;) cable, and L. offendix. √90. ] 1. To tie, or confine with a cord, band, ligature, chain, etc.; to fetter; to make fast; as, to bind grain in bundles; to bind a prisoner. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To confine, restrain, or hold by physical force or influence of any kind; as, attraction binds the planets to the sun; frost binds the earth, or the streams. [ 1913 Webster ]

He bindeth the floods from overflowing. Job xxviii. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

Whom Satan hath bound, lo, these eighteen years. Luke xiii. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To cover, as with a bandage; to bandage or dress; -- sometimes with up; as, to bind up a wound. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To make fast ( a thing) about or upon something, as by tying; to encircle with something; as, to bind a belt about one; to bind a compress upon a part. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. To prevent or restrain from customary or natural action; as, certain drugs bind the bowels. [ 1913 Webster ]

6. To protect or strengthen by a band or binding, as the edge of a carpet or garment. [ 1913 Webster ]

7. To sew or fasten together, and inclose in a cover; as, to bind a book. [ 1913 Webster ]

8. Fig.: To oblige, restrain, or hold, by authority, law, duty, promise, vow, affection, or other moral tie; as, to bind the conscience; to bind by kindness; bound by affection; commerce binds nations to each other. [ 1913 Webster ]

Who made our laws to bind us, not himself. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

9. (Law) (a) To bring (any one) under definite legal obligations; esp. under the obligation of a bond or covenant. Abbott. (b) To place under legal obligation to serve; to indenture; as, to bind an apprentice; -- sometimes with out; as, bound out to service. [ 1913 Webster ]

To bind over, to put under bonds to do something, as to appear at court, to keep the peace, etc. --
To bind to, to contract; as, to bind one's self to a wife. --
To bind up in, to cause to be wholly engrossed with; to absorb in. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To fetter; tie; fasten; restrain; restrict; oblige. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To tie; to confine by any ligature. [ 1913 Webster ]

They that reap must sheaf and bind. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To contract; to grow hard or stiff; to cohere or stick together in a mass; as, clay binds by heat. Mortimer. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To be restrained from motion, or from customary or natural action, as by friction. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To exert a binding or restraining influence. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who binds; as, a binder of sheaves; one whose trade is to bind; as, a binder of books. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything that binds, as a fillet, cord, rope, or band; a bandage; -- esp. the principal piece of timber intended to bind together any building. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. a pair of stiff oblong covers, sometimes detachable, designed for insertion of paper pages to create a book-like document, such as in a loose-leaf binder. [ PJC ]

n. A place where books, or other articles, are bound; a bookbinder's establishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ From Bindheim, a German who analyzed it. ] (Min.) An amorphous antimonate of lead, produced from the alteration of other ores, as from jamesonite. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That binds; obligatory. [ 1913 Webster ]

Binding beam (Arch.), the main timber in double flooring. --
Binding joist (Arch.), the secondary timber in double-framed flooring. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Obligatory; restraining; restrictive; stringent; astringent; costive; styptic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The act or process of one who, or that which, binds. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Anything that binds; a bandage; the cover of a book, or the cover with the sewing, etc.; something that secures the edge of cloth from raveling. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. pl. (Naut.) The transoms, knees, beams, keelson, and other chief timbers used for connecting and strengthening the parts of a vessel. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. So as to bind. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or property of being binding; obligatory quality. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Elec.) A metallic post attached to electrical apparatus for convenience in making connections. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

. A set screw used to bind parts together, esp. one for making a connection in an electrical circuit. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (Convolvulus Sepium); lesser bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis); the white bindweed, the blue bindweed, the Syrian bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]