Definition 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.
• n. - A blindage. See Blindage.
• n. - A halting place.
• n. - Alt. of Blinde
• 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.
• n. - A blindage. See Blindage.
• n. - A halting place.
• n. - Alt. of Blinde