blind

• (archaic) blinde

From Old English blind, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

• IPA^(key): /blaɪnd/

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• Rhymes: -aɪnd

blind (comparative blinder, superlative blindest)

1. (not comparable, of a person or animal) Unable to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
   • (Can we date this quote?) William Shakespeare

     He that is strucken blind cannot forget / The precious treasure of his eyesight lost.

   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island,

     He was plainly blind, for he tapped before him with a stick, and wore a great green shade over his eyes and nose...

2. (not comparable, of an eye) Unable to be used to see, due to physiological or neurological factors.
3. (comparable) Failing to see, acknowledge, perceive.

   The lovers were blind to each other's faults.

   Authors are blind to their own defects.

4. (not comparable) Of a place, having little or no visibility.

   a blind path; a blind ditch; a blind corner

   • (Can we date this quote?) John Milton

     the blind mazes of this tangled wood

5. (not comparable) Closed at one end; having a dead end

   a blind gut

   • 1914, James Joyce, Araby:

     North Richmond street, being blind, was a quiet street except at the hour when the Christian Brothers' School set the boys free.

6. (not comparable) Having no openings for light or passage.

   a blind wall, a blind alley

7. smallest or slightest in phrases such as

   I shouted, but he didn't take a blind bit of notice.

   We pulled and pulled, but it didn't make a blind bit of difference.

8. (not comparable) without any prior knowledge.

   He took a blind guess at which fork in the road would take him to the airport.

9. (not comparable) unconditional; without regard to evidence, logic, reality, accidental mistakes, extenuating circumstances, etc.

   blind deference

   blind justice

   blind punishment

   • (Can we date this quote?) Jay

     This plan is recommended neither to blind approbation nor to blind reprobation.

10. Unintelligible or illegible.

    a blind passage in a book; blind writing

11. (horticulture) Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit.

    blind buds; blind flowers

• invisible (unable to be seen)
• anosmic
• deaf
• print disabled

blind (plural blinds)

1. A covering for a window to keep out light. The covering may be made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, chapter 12, in Crime out of Mind‎:

     Light filtered in through the blinds of the french windows. It made tremulous stripes along the scrubbed pine floor.

2. A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.
3. Any device intended to conceal or hide.

   a duck blind

4. Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.
5. (military) A blindage.
6. A halting place.

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7. (baseball, slang, 1800s) No score.
8. (poker) A forced bet: the small blind or the big blind.

   The blinds are $10/$20 and the ante is $1.

9. (poker) A player who is forced to pay such a bet.

   The blinds immediately folded when I reraised.

10. (as a plural) Those who are blind, taken as a group.

    Braille is a writing system for the blind.

• (destination sign): rollsign (mainly US)

• big blind
• blinders
• small blind
• Venetian blind
• blind map

• curtain
• jalousie

blind (third-person singular simple present blinds, present participle blinding, simple past and past participle blinded)

1. (transitive) To make temporarily or permanently blind.

   The light was so bright that for a moment he was blinded.

   Don't wave that pencil in my face - do you want to blind me?

   • (Can we date this quote?) South

     A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that blinds those whom he should lead is […] a much greater.

2. (slang, obsolete) To curse.
   • 1890, Rudyard Kipling, The Young British Soldier

     If you're cast for fatigue by a sergeant unkind,

     Don't grouse like a woman, nor crack on, nor blind;

     Be handy and civil, and then you will find

     That it's beer for the young British soldier.

3. To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.
   • (Can we date this quote?) Dryden

     Such darkness blinds the sky.

   • (Can we date this quote?) Stillingfleet

     The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to blind and confound.

4. To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel, for example a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.

• blind with science
• blinder
• blinding
• blindness

blind (comparative more blind, superlative most blind)

1. Without seeing; unseeingly.
2. (poker, three card brag) Without looking at the cards dealt.

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

blind

1. blind

• “blind” in Den Danske Ordbog

• Rhymes: -ɪnt

From Middle Dutch blint, from Old Dutch *blint, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

blind (comparative blinder, superlative blindst)

1. blind (unable to see)

From blinden.

• blinde f

blind n (plural blinden, diminutive blindje n)

1. window shutter

• luik

From Old High German blint, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

• IPA^(key): /blɪnt/

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blind (comparative blinder, superlative am blindesten)

1. blind
2. (of a mirror or windowpane) cloudy
   • 1918, Elisabeth von Heyking, Die Orgelpfeifen, in: Zwei Erzählungen, Phillipp Reclam jun. Verlag, page 9:

     So dunkel und schauerlich die Gruft aussah, wenn man durch die blinden, bestaubten Scheibchen der kleinen Fenster hineinblickte, so hell und freundlich war oben die Kirche.

     Just as dark and eerie the crypt looked like, if one looked in it through the cloudy, dusted little panes of the small windows, as bright and friendly was the church above.

• blinder Passagier
• farbenblind
• nachtblind

• blenden

• blind in Duden online

Cognate to Dutch blind, German blind.

blind (comparative blinner, superlative blinnst)

1. blind

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

blind (neuter singular blindt, definite singular and plural blinde)

1. blind

• “blind” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz. Akin to English blind.

• IPA^(key): /blɪnː/, /blɪnd/

blind (masculine and feminine blind, neuter blindt, definite singular and plural blinde, comparative blindare, indefinite superlative blindast, definite superlative blindaste)

1. blind

blind

1. imperative of blinda

• “blind” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

From Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

• IPA^(key): /blind/

blind

1. blind

   blind, dēaf, and dumb

   blind, deaf, and dumb

   God is dēad and man is blind.

   God is dead and man is blind.

2. (substantive) a blind person

• blindnes
• blendan
• blindlīċe

• Middle English: blind, blynd
  • Scots: blynd, blind
  • English: blind

From Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

blind

1. blind

From Old Swedish blinder, from Old Norse blindr, from Proto-Germanic *blindaz.

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blind

1. blind; unable or failing to see

• blindgång
• blindgångare
• blindbock
• blindstyre
• färgblind