Blind |
Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. |
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Blind |
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. |
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Blind |
Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. |
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Blind |
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. |
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Blind |
Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. |
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Blind |
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut. |
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Blind |
Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. |
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Blind |
Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers. |
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Blind |
To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. |
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Blind |
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle. |
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Blind |
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive. |
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Blind |
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. |
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Blind |
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. |
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Blind |
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. |
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Blind |
A blindage. See Blindage. |
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Blind |
A halting place. |
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Blind |
Alt. of Blinde |
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Sand |
Fine particles of stone, esp. of siliceous stone, but not reduced to dust; comminuted stone in the form of loose grains, which are not coherent when wet. |
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Sand |
A single particle of such stone. |
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Sand |
The sand in the hourglass; hence, a moment or interval of time; the term or extent of one's life. |
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