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Affected with blindness by the brilliancy of snow. -- Snow"-blind`ness, n.

Half blind.

Blind as a stock; wholly blind.

As blind as a stone; completely blind.

To free from blindness; to give or restore sight to; to open the eyes of. [R.] J. Webster (1607).

To free from that which blindfolds. Spenser.

To blind by a red-hot metal plate held before the eyes. [R.]

Blindness. [R.] Urquhart.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Color blindness; achromatopsy.

e, to understand written or printed symbols although they can be seen, as in case of word blindness.

as oil. And fragrant oils the stiffened limbs anoint. Dryden. He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. John ix. 6.

Want or defect of sight; blindness.

s flame. The purer specimens consist almost wholly of carbon. Also called glance coal and blind coal.

lass of destitute, unfortunate, or afflicted persons; as, an asylum for the aged, for the blind, or for the insane; a lunatic asylum; an orphan asylum.

rt to gain a point; esp. an unsuccessful, as contrasted with a successful, effort. By his blindness maimed for high attempts. Milton. Attempt to commit a crime (Law), such an intentional preparatory act as will apparently result, if not extrinsically hindered, in a crime which it was designed to effect. Wharton.…

Perverse; adverse; untoward. [Obs.] "Awkward casualties." "Awkward wind." Shak. O blind guides, which being of an awkward religion, do strain out a gnat, and swallow up a cancel. Udall.

To make a loud noise, as if with a blow or succession of blows; as, the window blind banged and waked me; he was banging on the piano.

Properly, a bay horse, but often any horse. Commonly in the phrase blind bayard, an old blind horse. Blind bayard moves the mill. Philips.

Blind; stupid. [Obs.] "A formal and bayardly round of duties." Goodman.