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of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight. He that is strucken blind can not forget The precious treasure of his eyesight lost. Shak.

A post-office clerk whose duty is to decipher obscure addresses.

See Blende.

A cover or protection for an advanced trench or approach, formed of fascines and earth supported by a framework.

One who, or that which, blinds.

A small fish (Amblyopsis spelæus) destitute of eyes, found in the waters of the Mammoth Cave, in Kentucky. Related fishes from other caves take the same name.

To cover the eyes of, as with a bandage; to hinder from seeing. And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face. Luke xxii. 64.

Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding; obscuring; as, blinding tears; blinding snow.

out thought, investigation, knowledge, or purpose of one's own. By his imperious mistress blindly led. Dryden.

A play in which one person is blindfolded, and tries to catch some one of the company and tell who it is. Surely he fancies I play at blindman's buff with him, for he thinks I never have my eyes open. Stillingfleet.

The time between daylight and candle light. [Humorous]

State or condition of being blind, literally or figuratively. Darwin. Color blindness, inability to distinguish certain color. See Daltonism.

The triforium as opposed to the clearstory.

snakelike, limbless lizard (Anguis fragilis), with minute eyes, popularly believed to be blind; the slowworm; -- formerly a name for the adder. Newts and blindworms do no wrong. Shak.

Affected with color blindness. See Color blindness, under Color, n.

An old term for blindman's buff. Shak.

Dim-sighted; purblind.

Nearsighted; shortsighted; purblind. [Obs.] Bacon.

Wholly blind. "Purblind Argus, all eyes and no sight." Shak.

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