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Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect
or by deprivation; without sight. |
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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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Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate. |
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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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Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced. |
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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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Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind
passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing. |
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Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind
buds; blind flowers. |
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To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment. |
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To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
for and painful to; to dazzle. |
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To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
conceal; to deceive. |
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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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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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Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to
conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge. |
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A blindage. See Blindage. |
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A halting place. |
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Alt. of Blinde |