Blind

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

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.

Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

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.

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.

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

To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

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

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

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.

A blindage. See Blindage.

A halting place.

Alt. of Blinde