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Blind
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(v. t.) To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
(2):
(v. t.) To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.
(3):
(a.) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.
(4):
(v. t.) To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.
(5):
(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.
(6):
(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.
(7):
(a.) Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
(8):
(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.
(9):
(a.) Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.
(10):
(a.) Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
(11):
(n.) A halting place.
(12):
(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.
(13):
(a.) Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
(14):
(a.) Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
(15):
(n.) Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
(16):
(n.) A blindage. See Blindage.
(17):
(n.) Alt. of Blinde
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Blind'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/b/blind.html. 1828.
