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blind adjective & adverb.
[Old English blind = Old Frisian, Old Saxon blind, Old High German blint (German blind), Old Norse blindr, Gothic blinds, from Germanic.]
A. adjective.
Without the sense of sight. OE.
blind as a bat, blind as a beetle, etc. colour-blind, green-blind, etc.
b. Aeronautics. Without direct observation, using instruments only. E20.
Enveloped in darkness. arch. OE.
S. Pepys The little blind bed-chamber.
b. Having its light extinguished. LME-E18.
Lacking discernment or foresight; deficient in intellectual or moral perception. OE.
H. Robbins Men were sometimes such blind fools.
Reckless, heedless; not ruled by purpose. ME.
Harper Lee He just broke into a blind raving charge at the fence.
Covered or concealed from sight; out of the way; secret, obscure; (of a way or path) confusing, intricate, uncertain. ME.
Milton In the blind mazes of this tangled wood. S. Pepys A blind place where Mr. Goldsborough was to meet me. J. Morse Blind rocks, sunk a few feet below the water.
b. Of a corner or other feature of a road: round or to the other side of which one cannot see. E20.
Dim, indistinct; faintly marked. arch. LME.
N. Hawthorne Written in such a queer, blind..hand.
False, deceitful. LME-M16.
Having no openings for light or passage; walled or boarded up; that cannot be seen through. E16.
Pope Some huntsman..From the blind thicket wounds a stately deer. J. H. Parker The clerestory window has a smaller blind arch on each side of it.
Closed at one end; (of a geographical feature) terminating abruptly. M17.
Drunk, thoroughly intoxicated. colloq. M17.
Of a plant: without buds or eyes, or without a terminal flower. M19.
Without complete information; (of a test or experiment) in which information which might bias results is withheld from the tester or the subject or both. M20.
double-blind: see DOUBLE adjective & adverb.
attrib. Slight(est), single. Esp. in a blind bit of, the slightest, the least. Usu. in neg. contexts. colloq. M20.
C. Causley Maloney never said a blind word to contradict him.
Phrases: blind to incapable of appreciating or recognizing. steal a person blind: see STEAL verb. strike me blind: see STRIKE verb. turn a blind eye (to) pretend not to notice.
Special collocations & comb.: blind alley (a) an out-of-the-way or secret alley; (b) a cul-de-sac; fig. an unprofitable or useless course of action; also attrib. designating a job etc. with no prospect of advancement. blind baggage car US a railroad car without end doors, for baggage. blind coal anthracite (from its burning without a bright flame). blind date colloq. a social engagement with a view to a personal relationship between two people (usu. of the opposite sex) who have not met before; a person with whom such a date is arranged. blind fish any of various fishes with eyes vestigial or absent, living in subterranean waters. blind god Eros or Cupid (associated with love). blind gut the caecum. blind HOOKEY. blind man's buff, (N. Amer.) blind man's bluff a game in which a blindfold player tries to catch other players, who push him or her about. blind-man's holiday the time just before lamps are lit. blind nettle a dead-nettle or similar plant. blind pig N. Amer. colloq. a place where liquor is illicitly sold. blind side (a) the unguarded, weak, or assailable side of a person or thing; (b) the unsightly or unpresentable side. blind-side verb trans. (N. Amer.) attack on the blind side, take advantage of, take unawares. blindsight Medicine the ability to respond to visual stimuli without consciously perceiving them, a condition which can occur after certain types of brain damage. blind snake any of various small burrowing snakes of the infraorder Scolecophidia, with reduced eyes, esp. of the family Typhlopidae. blind spot (a) a part of the retina insensitive to light, at the point of entry of the optic nerve; (b) Cricket that spot of ground in front of the batsman where a ball pitched by the bowler leaves the batsman in doubt whether to play forward or back; (c) Radio a point of unusually weak reception; (d) transf. & fig. an area where vision or understanding is lacking. blind-stitch noun & verb (a) noun a sewing stitch visible on one side only; (b) verb trans. & intrans. sew thus. blind stamping, blind tooling Bookbinding ornamentation by impression without the use of colour or gold leaf. blind tiger US colloq. = blind pig above. blind trust a trust independently administering the private business interests of a person in public office to prevent conflict of interest. blindworm (a) the slow-worm (from its small eyes); (b) any of various legless skinks of the genus Typhlosaurus.
b. adverb. Blindly. L18.
bake blind bake (a pastry or flan case etc.) without a filling. blind drunk insensible through drink. go blind Poker put up a stake before seeing one's cards. go it blind colloq. act recklessly or without proper consideration. swear blind swear vehemently (that).
blindish adjective E17.
blindling noun (long rare) a blind person M16.
blindling(s) adverb (Scot. & north.) blindly, recklessly ME.
blindly adverb OE.
blindness noun (a) the state or condition of being blind; (b) (rare, Shakes.) concealment: OE.