(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect
or by deprivation; without sight.
(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.) 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.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall;
open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind
passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
(a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind
buds; blind flowers.
(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
for and painful to; to dazzle.
(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
conceal; to deceive.
(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.
(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.
(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
(n.) A halting place.
(n.) Alt. of Blinde
