BLIND

Definitions for the word, blind

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

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

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

(a.) 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.

(a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

(a.) 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.

(a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

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

(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.

(n.) A halting place.

(n.) Alt. of Blinde

(n.) 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.

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

(v. t.) 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.

(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.