Blind

Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

He that is strucken blind can not forget
The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

- Shak.

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.

But hard be hardened, blind be blinded more,
That they may stumble on, and deeper fall.

- Milton.

Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.

- Jay.

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.

Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

The blind mazes of this tangled wood.

- Milton.

Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

(Hort.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.

Blind alley
an alley closed at one end; a cul-de-sac.

Blind axle
an axle which turns but does not communicate motion.

Blind beetle
one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night. - Knight.

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.

Blind door
an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See Blank door or Blank window, under Blank, a. - Simmonds.

Blind level
(Mining) a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon.

Blind nettle
(Bot.) dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead. - Knight.

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.

Blind snake
(Zool.) a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes. - Swift.

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.

v. t.

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

[imp. & p. p. Blinded; p. pr. & vb. n. Blinding.]

A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater.

- South.

To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

Her beauty all the rest did blind.

- P. Fletcher.

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

Such darkness blinds the sky.

- Dryden.

The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.

- Stillingfleet.

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.

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.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

(Mil.) A blindage. See Blindage.

A halting place.

See Blende.

Noun	1.	blind - people who have severe visual impairments; "he spent hours reading to the blind"
	2.	blind - a hiding place sometimes used by hunters (especially duck hunters); "he waited impatiently in the blind"
	3.	blind - something that keeps things out or hinders sight; "they had just moved in and had not put up blinds yet" Synonyms: screen
	4.	blind - something intended to misrepresent the true nature of an activity; "he wasn't sick--it was just a subterfuge"; "the holding company was just a blind" Synonyms: subterfuge
Verb	1.	blind - render unable to see
	2.	blind - make blind by putting the eyes out; "The criminals were punished and blinded"
	3.	blind - make dim by comparison or conceal Synonyms: dim
Adj.	1.	blind - unable to see Synonyms: unsighted Antonyms: sighted - able to see
	2.	blind - unable or unwilling to perceive or understand; "blind to a lover's faults"; "blind to the consequences of their actions"
	3.	blind - not based on reason or evidence; "blind hatred"; "blind faith"; "unreasoning panic" Synonyms: unreasoning

BLIND. One who is deprived of the faculty of seeing.
2. Persons who are blind may enter into contracts and make wills like others. Carth. 53; Barn. 19, 23; 3 Leigh, R. 32. When an attesting witness becomes blind, his handwriting may be proved as if he were dead. 1 Stark. Ev. 341. But before proving his handwriting the witness must be produced, if within the jurisdiction of the court, and examined. Ld. Raym. 734; 1 M. & Rob. 258; 2 M. & Rob. 262.

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