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Meaning Of Blind
a.
Destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect
or by deprivation; without sight.
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.
a.
Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.
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.
a.
Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.
a.
Having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall;
open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.
a.
Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind
passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.
a.
Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind
buds; blind flowers.
v. t.
To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.
v. t.
To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult
for and painful to; to dazzle.
v. t.
To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to
conceal; to deceive.
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.
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.
n.
Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to
conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.