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

Purblind; blinding. [Obs.] "Bisson rheum." Shak.

A gale of piercingly cold wind, usually accompanied with fine and blinding snow; a furious blast. [U. S.]

asslike, or glossy; as, to glaze paper, gunpowder, and the like. Sorrow's eye glazed with blinding tears. Shak.

tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symb…