BLIND

noun a halting place.

2. blind ·adj undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.

3. blind ·noun ·alt. of blinde.

4. blind ·noun a blindage. ·see blindage.

5. blind ·adj involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.

6. blind ·vt to make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.

7. blind ·adj abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; as, blind buds; blind flowers.

8. blind ·adj destitute of the sense of seeing, either by natural defect or by deprivation; without sight.

9. blind ·adj unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; as, a blind passage in a book; illegible; as, blind writing.

10. blind ·noun something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.

11. blind ·vt to deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.

12. blind ·adj having no openings for light or passage; as, a blind wall; open only at one end; as, a blind alley; a blind gut.

13. blind ·noun 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.

14. blind ·vt 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.

15. blind ·vt to darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.

xvi. blind ·adj 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.

xvii. blind ·adj 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.