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BLIND, a.

1. Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect, or by deprivation not having sight.
2. Not having the faculty of discernment destitute of intellectual light unable to understand or judge ignorant as authors are blind to their own defects.

Blind should be followed by to but it is followed by of, in the phrase,blind of an eye.

3. Unseen out of public view private dark sometimes implying contempt or censure as a blind corner.
4. Dark obscure not easy to be found not easily discernible as a blind path.
5. Heedless inconsiderate undeliberating.

This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation or blind reprobation.

6. In scripture, blind implies not only want of discernment, but moral depravity.

BLIND, To make blind to deprive of sight.

1. To darken to obscure to the eye.

Such darkness blinds the sky.

2. To darken the understanding as, to blind the mind.
3. To darken or obscure to the understanding.

He endeavored to blind and confound the controversy.

4. To eclipse.

BLIND, or BLINDE, See Blend, an ore.

BLIND, n. Something to hinder the sight.

Civility casts a blind over the duty.

1. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding as, one thing serves as a blind for another.
2. A screen a cover as a blind for a window, or for a horse.
Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Blind'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​b/blind.html.
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