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-blind |
Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. |
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Snow |
A square-rigged vessel, differing from a brig only in that she has a trysail mast close abaft the mainmast, on which a large trysail is hoisted. |
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Snow |
Watery particles congealed into white or transparent crystals or flakes in the air, and falling to the earth, exhibiting a great variety of very beautiful and perfect forms. |
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