Blind — Defs

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

1.
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.
2.
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.
3.
Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
“This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.” — Jay.
4.
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.
5.
Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
“The blind mazes of this tangled wood.” — Milton.
6.
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
7.
Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
8.
Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.(Hort.)

Phrases & compounds

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.

Blind cat — 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.

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

Blind nettle — dead nettle. See Dead nettle, under Dead.

Blind shell — 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 — a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family Typhlopidæ, with rudimentary eyes.

Blind spot — 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.

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

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

1.
To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
“A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater.” — South.
2.
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
“Her beauty all the rest did blind.” — P. Fletcher.
3.
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.
4.
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.

03 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.

1.
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.
2.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
3.
A blindage. See Blindage.(Mil.) See: Blindage
4.
A halting place.[Obs.]

04 n. See Blende.

1.
See Blende. See: Blende