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Having defective sight; dim-sighted; purblind. Shak.

Half cylindrical.

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.

Imperfectly cylindrical; approximately cylindrical.

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.

A green or blue pigment produced by Peziza in certain kinds of decayed wood, as the beech, oak, birch, etc., and extracted as an amorphous powder resembling indigo.

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

Blindness. [R.] Urquhart.

An apparatus by means of which energy or power can be stored, such as the cylinder or tank for storing water for hydraulic elevators, the secondary or storage battery used for accumulating the energy of electrical charges, etc.

Color blindness; inability to distinguish colors; Daltonism.

Marked with fine irregular streaks as if scratched by a needle. Lindley.

Color blindness; achromatopsy.

A prickle growing on the bark, as in some brambles and roses. Lindley.

Terminating in a flat, narrow end. Lindley.

An apparatus consisting chiefly of a closed vessel (as a globe or cylinder) with one or more projecting bent tubes, through which steam is made to pass from the vessel, causing it to revolve. [Written also eolipile.]

In gasoline-engine motor vehicles, the cooling of the cylinder by increasing its radiating surface by means of ribs or radiators, and placing it so that it is exposed to a current of air. Cf. Water cooling. -- Air"-cooled`, a.