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 ]

n. [ F. cylindre, OF. cilindre, L. cylindrus, fr. Gr. ky`lindros, fr. kyli`ndein, kyli`ein, to roll. Cf. Calender the machine. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Geom.) (a) A solid body which may be generated by the rotation of a parallelogram round one its sides; or a body of rollerlike form, of which the longitudinal section is oblong, and the cross section is circular. (b) The space inclosed by any cylindrical surface. The space may be limited or unlimited in length. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Any hollow body of cylindrical form, as: (a) The chamber of a steam engine in which the piston is moved by the force of steam. (b) The barrel of an air or other pump. (c) (Print.) The revolving platen or bed which produces the impression or carries the type in a cylinder press. (d) The bore of a gun; the turning chambered breech of a revolver. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. The revolving square prism carrying the cards in a Jacquard loom. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cylinder axis. (Anat.) See Axis cylinder, under Axis. --
Cylinder engine (Paper Making), a machine in which a cylinder takes up the pulp and delivers it in a continuous sheet to the dryers. --
Cylinder escapement. See Escapement. --
Cylinder glass. See Glass. --
Cylinder mill. See Roller mill. --
Cylinder press. See Press. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. cylyndracé ] Cylindrical, or approaching a cylindrical form. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. kylindriko`s, from ky`lindros cylinder: cf. F. cylindrique. ] Having the form of a cylinder, or of a section of its convex surface; partaking of the properties of the cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cylindrical lens, a lens having one, or more than one, cylindrical surface. --
Cylindric surface or
Cylindrical surface, (Geom.), a surface described by a straight line that moves according to any law, but so as to be constantly parallel to a given line. --
Cylindrical vault. (Arch.) See under Vault, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder.
Syn. -- cylindricalness; cylindricity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In the manner or shape of a cylinder; so as to be cylindrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. the roundness of a 3-dimensional cylinder.
Syn. -- cylindricality; cylindricity. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. The quality or condition of being cylindrical. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. cylindrus (Gr. ky`lindros) cylinder + -form: cf. F. cylindriforme. ] Having the form of a cylinder. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. ky`lindros cylinder + -oid: cf. F. cylindroïde. ] 1. A solid body resembling a right cylinder, but having the bases or ends elliptical. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Geom.) A certain surface of the third degree, described by a moving straight line; -- used to illustrate the motions of a rigid body and also the forces acting on the body. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. ky`lindros + me`tron measure. ] Belonging to a scale used in measuring cylinders. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.[ OE. vlindre moth (cf. D. vlinder butterfly) + E. mouse. Cf. Flittermouse, Flinders. ] (Zool.) A bat; a flittermouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. [ Scot. flenders, flendris; perh. akin to E. flutter; cf. D. flenters rags, broken pieces. ] Small pieces or splinters; fragments. [ 1913 Webster ]

The tough ash spear, so stout and true,
Into a thousand flinders flew. Sir W. Scott. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A small genus of Australian timber trees.
Syn. -- genus Flindersia. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A tall Australian timber tree (Flindersia australis) yielding tough hard wood used for staves etc.
Syn. -- native beech, flindosy, Flindersia australis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.) A salmon returning from the sea the second time. [ Prov. Eng. ] [ 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.

n. The linden. See Linden. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A chemical substance (C6H6Cl6) used as an agricultural insecticide.
Syn. -- hexachlorocyclohexane, gamma benzene hexachloride. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Orig. an adj. from lind linden tree, AS. lind; akin to D. & G. linde, OHG. linta, Icel., Sw., & Dan. lind. Cf. Lime linden. ] (Bot.) (a) A handsome tree (Tilia Europæa), having cymes of light yellow flowers, and large cordate leaves. The tree is common in Europe. (b) In America, the basswood, or Tilia Americana. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A genus of aromatic evergreen or deciduous dioecious shrubs or trees of eastern Asia and North America.
Syn. -- genus Lindera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A genus having only one species, the Texas star.
Syn. -- genus Lindheimera. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

‖n. [ NL. ] (Zool.) A peculiar genus of rotifers, remarkable for the absence of ciliated disks. By some Zoologists it is thought to be like the ancestral form of the Arthropoda. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Lindia + -form. ] (Zool.) Resembling the genus Lindia; -- said of certain apodous insect larvæ. [ See Illust. under Larva. ] [ 1913 Webster ]