blind

Unable to see, or only partially able to see.

Even a blind hen sometimes finds a grain of corn.

Braille is a writing system for the blind.

Failing to recognize, acknowledge or perceive.

The lovers were blind to each other’s faults.

Authors are blind to their own defects.

Having little or no visibility.

a blind path

a blind ditch

Closed at one end; having a dead end; exitless.

a blind alley

a blind fistula

Having no openings for light or passage; both dark and exitless.

a blind wall

a blind alley

A movable covering for a window to keep out light, made of cloth or of narrow slats that can block light or allow it to pass.

A blind bearing the monogram G.V.T. is pulled down over the waiting room window as if still in mourning for the passing of the railway.

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

A destination sign mounted on a public transport vehicle displaying the route destination, number, name and/or via points, etc.

A place where people can hide in order to observe wildlife.

a duck blind

Field biologists use blinds, and so do hunters.

Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge, deception.

A blindage.

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?

To curse, swear, use foul language

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.

I could see the unfortunate man felt his position deeply, and I was surprised that he contented himself with a mere ‘Ouch !’ But I suppose these solid citizens have to learn to curb the tongue. Creates a bad impression, I mean, if they start blinding and stiffing as those more happily placed would be.

To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal.

He ſought, but in the dark tempeſtuous Night He knew not whither to direct his Sight. So whirl the Seas, ſuch Darkneſs blinds the Sky, That the black Night receives a deeper Dye.

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

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.