blindadj.adv.

Brit.

/blʌɪnd/, U.S.

/blaɪnd/

Forms: Old English– blind, (Middle English blynt, Middle English–1500s blynd(e, Middle English–1600s blinde, 1700s– Scottish blin').

Origin: A word inherited from Germanic.

Etymology: A Common Germanic adjective: Old English blind = Old Saxon blind (Middle Dutch blint(d), Dutch blind), Old Norse blindr (Danish, Swedish blind), Old High German blint, (Middle High German blint(d), modern German blind), Gothic blinds < Germanic *blindo-z, of which the Aryan form would be *bhlendh-: compare Lithuanian bléndza-s blind, blę́sti to become dark, Latvian blenzt to see dimly, Old Church Slavonic blědŭ pale, dim, pointing perhaps to an earlier sense ‘become dim or dark’ (Franck).

I. Literal.

a. Destitute of the sense of sight, whether by natural defect or by deprivation. In comparisons, as blind as a bat or †brickbat; also blind as a beetle, blind mole, blind stone (see the nouns); to turn a blind eye: see eye n.¹ Phrases 2t.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind

star-blindeOE

bissonc950

blind-bornc975

blindc1000

darkOE

purblinda1325

sightlessa1325

start blinda1387

stark blinda1425

stone-blindc1480

beetle-blind1556

beetle1566

eyeless?1570

purblinded1572

high-gravel-blind1600

not-seeing?1602

kind-blind1608

bat-blind1609

unseeing1609

blindful1621

winking-eyed1621

lamplessa1625

deocular1632

lightless1638

bat-eyed1656

stock-blind1675

duncha1692

gazelessa1819

visionlessa1821

blind-eyed1887

stone-eyed1890

unsighted1983

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) x. 46 Bartimeus sæt blind wið þone weg wædla.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1859 He wass æness wurrþenn blind.

c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 105 O verrey light of eyen that ben blynde.

c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3632 As bleynde as a betulle.

1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hv^v Blind men shold iudge no colours.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xvi. 5) Blynd folke runne gadding hither and thither like mad Bedlems.

1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 40 As blinde, as moules, or bats.

1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xiv. 51 After the old prouerbe, Who so blinde, as hœ that will not see?

1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 52 As blind as a bat at noone.

?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 27 Hittee missee, happy go lucky, as the blind Man kill'd the Crow.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 464. ¶5 Jupiter..left him to strole about the World in the Blind Condition wherein Chremylus beheld him.

1840 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 127 For blind as a bat he was.

1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xlii. 438 The old Scholar..is as blind as a brickbat.

1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 737 Galileo, frail and blind.

1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xviii. §2 I was blind as a bat. Pushed into a job by my people.

1943 E. Caldwell Georgia Boy iii. 50 I've done gone and got as blind as a bat. I can't see nothing at all.

b. Temporarily deprived of sight, as when dazzled with a bright light.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > dazzled

blind1483

dazzling1571

dazed1581

dazzled1581

owl-sighted1596

1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F ij Lyke hym whyche is blynde of the rayes of the sonne.

c. Used punningly of a needle: Eyeless.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [adjective] > sewing > types of needle

eyeless1497

large-eyed1575

blinda1800

a1800 W. Cowper Man. more Anc. Art of Poetry The smaller sort, which matrons use, Not quite so blind as they.

d. absol. A blind person, esp. as plural. Those who are blind, as a section of the community.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > person

blindc1000

blindmanc1325

Samsonc1460

blindling1549

groper1699

darkie1807

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind > blind person

blindc1000

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 30 And þa sæton twegen blinde wið þone weg.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14370 Crepels gan, þe blind haf sight.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13527 Wit þis blind þar can he mete.

1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xv. 14 If the blinde lead the blinde, both shall fall into the ditch.

1887 N.E.D. at Blind Mod. The Royal Asylum for the Blind.

e. (attributive of prec.) Of, pertaining to, or for the use of the blind as a class: as blind asylum.

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1881 Durham Univ. Jrnl. 12 Nov. The question of blind education.

1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 June 7/2 The requirements for the blind scholarships are similar.

f. (See quot. 1879.)

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [adjective] > of part of flat-fish

blind1879

1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 292/2 The side [of a flat-fish] which is turned towards the bottom..is generally colourless, and called ‘blind’, from the absence of an eye on this side.

g. Short for blind-drunk at sense 15.

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the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk

drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350

to-drunka1382

as drunk as the devilc1400

sow-drunk1509

fish-drunk1591

swine-drunk1592

gone1603

far gone1616

reeling drunk1620

soda1625

souseda1625

blind1630

full1631

drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652

as full (or tight) as a tick1678

clear1688

drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700

as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727

as drunk as a piper1728

blind-drunkc1775

bitch foua1796

blootered1820

whole-seas over1820

three sheets in the wind1821

as drunk as a loon1830

shellaced1881

as drunk as a boiled owl1886

stinking1887

steaming drunk1892

steaming with drink1897

footless1901

legless1903

plastered1912

legless drunk1926

stinko1927

drunk as a pissant1930

kaylied1937

langers1949

stoned1952

smashed1962

shit-faced1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

trashed1966

faced1968

stoned1968

steaming1973

langered1979

annihilated1980

obliterated1984

wankered1992

muntered1998

1630 J. Taylor Water-cormorant in Wks. iii. 5/1 For though he be as drunke as any Rat, He hath but catcht a Foxe, or Whipt the Cat. Or some say hee's bewitcht, or scratcht, or blinde, Which are the fittest tearmes that I can finde.

1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. v. 96 They'll be all blind by the time they get home from Gracey Flyn's wedding.

1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 145 The artisan..improves the shining hours, by ‘getting blind’, to use his own elegant phrase.

1930 W. S. Maugham Gent. in Parlour xliii. 263 On the night he arrived in London he would get blind, he hadn't been drunk for twenty years.

h. In Poker, to go blind: to put up a blind (see blind n. 8); hence to go (a specified stake) blind. Hence applied to forms of Poker in which this is done; so blind hand.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand

two bullets and a bragger1807

full1843

full hand1846

pat hand1865

blind hand1872

full house1879

blaze1880

tiger1889

kilter1895

drawing hand1910

bust1932

made hand1974

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics

brag1734

fill1865

to go blind1872

to go it blind1872

stay1882

re-raise1903

sandbag1940

slow-play1971

1872 [see sense 1i].

1882 Poker 88 For some reasons players never give the blind hand credit for a good or even an average hand.

1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/2 The age is sometimes allowed to go blind, i.e., to raise the ante before he sees his cards.

1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget xvii He put in [the pool] a bank-note, and said, ‘Five pound blind’. Antonio..put in an I.O.U. for ten pounds, saying ‘I straddle you’.

i. to go it blind: to act without previous investigation of the circumstances; to plunge without regard to the risks involved. Also to go blind (on ——). Originally U.S.

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the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > be incautious [verb (intransitive)]

to go it1840

to go it blind1840

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > enter into incautiously or rashly [verb (transitive)]

to go it blind1840

to go bald-headed (into, for, at)1848

to walk into ——1911

society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics

brag1734

fill1865

to go blind1872

to go it blind1872

stay1882

re-raise1903

sandbag1940

slow-play1971

1840 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 18 Don't think of ‘going it blind’, but according to Walker!

1846 Congress. Globe App. 120 All I ask of him is that he will not ‘go it blind’ upon Oregon.

1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. viii. 111 It gives a Party Platform, tu, jest level with the mind..Of..honest folks thet mean to go it blind.

1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd ser. iv. 10 An' agin to impress on the poppylar mind The comfort an' wisdom o' goin' it blind.

1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 328 Poker, when played by betting before looking at one's hand, is called Blind Poker, and this has given rise to the very common phrase, to go it blind, used whenever an enterprise is undertaken without previous enquiry.

1875 W. T. Sherman Mem. I. 342 I know that in Washington I am incomprehensible, because at the outset of the war I would not go it blind.

1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 63 And faith he went the pace and went it blind.

1909 Daily Chron. 8 Feb. 4/4 If that be true, shall we be quite wise to ‘go blind’ on Dreadnoughts alone?

1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii Yes; they go it blind; it's the only logical way now.

j. Aeronautics. Applied to flying and aerial bombing executed by means of instruments without direct observation. Also as adv. Hence blind-bombing, blind-flying, blind landing attributive; blind approach n. (see Compounds).

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > by instruments

blind-flying1919

instrument flying1924

inertial system1952

inertial navigation1954

inertial guidance1955

society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [adverb] > by instruments

blind1919

society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [adjective] > relating to landing by instruments

blind landing1919

instrument1924

society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of

area bombardment1918

straddling1919

pattern-bombing1933

terror-bombing1933

dive-bombing1935

firebombing1935

blind-bombing1940

blitzing1940

coventrating1940

nuisance bombing1940

scatter bombing1940

coventration1942

carpet bombing1943

obliteration bombing1943

skip-bombing1943

shuttle bombing1944

atom bombing1945

atomic bombing1945

clobbering1948

loft-bombing1956

1919 Aviation & Aeronaut. Engin. 1 Feb. 22 Flying in fog, clouds or darkness—which may be called ‘blind flying’—involves difficulties not encountered in clear air.

1928 A. Klemin If you want to Fly 54 We have all sorts of instruments to tell us whether the plane is flying over an even keel, but it seems almost impossible to fly ‘blind’.

1930 Techn. News Bull., Bureau of Standards June 61/1 Various combinations of the three elements making up the blind-landing system have been tried.

1936 Nature 23 May 863/2 His development of blind-flying instruments employing gyroscopic principles.

1937 Times 16 Oct. 11/5 A machine which..can be landed ‘blind’ from any height.

1940 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 284 The diminution of the damage done by blind bombing.

1944 Times 31 Jan. 4/6 Frankfurt was covered by cloud and ‘blind bombing’ methods were used.

1958 Times 17 Oct. 3/4 The blind landing experimental unit have now shown that it is possible to complete the landing automatically without the pilot touching the controls or even seeing the ground.

k. a blind: used colloquially with a following noun to mean ‘a single ——’, ‘the least or slightest ——’.

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the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > any, however small

eacheOE

anyOE

leastOE

ever anyOE

smallc1330

a blind1938

1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night xvii. 193 I don't want a blind word out of either of you.

1941 Penguin New Writing 2 87 There's not a blind thing you can do about it.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 9 'E wooden take a blind bit er notice of me.

1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 9 Nobody could get a blind bit er sense outer 'im.

l. to swear blind: to affirm emphatically and without qualification. colloquial.

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the mind > language > statement > assertion without proof > [verb (intransitive)] > emphatically

to swear blind1963

1963 J. Fowles Collector ii. 138 He swears blind that he sent the CND cheque, but I don't know.

1975 Economist 25 Jan. 72/3 The state is now to control over two-thirds of British Petroleum—but swears blind it won't behave as if it did.

1985 Byte Feb. 190/3 You can swear blind it's solving a partial differential equation and they would be hard put to prove it is not.

II. figurative. Without perception.

a. Of persons, their faculties, etc.; also transferred of things: Lacking in mental perception, discernment, or foresight; destitute of intellectual, moral, or spiritual light.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [adjective]

thestera900

thestria900

blindc1000

blindfoldc1450

blinkard?1528

purblind1533

blinded1535

blear-eyed1561

obcaecate1568

unilluminated1579

fonda1592

blear-witted1600

short-sighted1622

baby-blind1627

obcaecated1641

misty-brained1649

twilighta1677

blindfolded1730

short-sighted1736

unpliable1769

misty1820

myopical1830

visionless1856

myopic1891

blinkered1897

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [adjective]

thestera900

thestria900

blindc1000

darkc1350

lightless?1406

obscurea1500

mistya1522

blinded1535

unilluminated1579

unlightened1587

stone-blind1596

endarkened1612

dark1628

benighted1637

unenlightened1650

bedarkened1655

unirradiated1792

darkened1856

the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceived

blindc1000

aguiledc1300

overseena1393

guiledc1400

bleared1549

fonded1566

siled1567

illuded1610

outwitted1766

sold1876

c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 17 Ealá ge dysegan and blindan.

c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16954 Unnwis mann iss blunnt & blind.

a1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 240 Four thynges..Þat mase a mans wytt blynd.

c1385 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 230 Blynde jugement of men.

1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 2 They are called blind in holy scripture, that haue not the true knowledge of God.

1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 89 The blindest and corruptest times of Popedom.

1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 35 How blind some parents are!

1877 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (ed. 3) i. 8 That would be a blind and mistaken inference.

b. Const. to (in obsolete).

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1665 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building (new ed.) 8 Surveyours who..are blind in the faults which their Workmen commit.

1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 236 The Assembly chose..to be blind to the artificial Part of his Speech.

1856 G. O. Trevelyan in Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. xiv. 460 To be blind to the merits of a great author.

c. blind side n. the unguarded, weak or assailable side of a person or thing, weakness; also, formerly, the unsightly or unpresentable side. Also, the side on which the view is obstructed from sight. In Rugby, the side of a scrum opposite to that on which the main line of the opponents' backs is ranged.

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the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing

eyesore1530

blind side1606

dissightc1710

ugly1755

desight1828

eye-sorrow1828

sight1862

a blot (up)on the landscape1912

to be no oil painting1919

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > liability to harm, loss, etc. > action or condition of exposure to harm > unprotectedness > unprotected side or point

blind side1606

exposure?1611

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scrum > side of scrum

blind side1606

open side1906

1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher i. sig. A3^v For that, wee'le follow the blinde side of him.

1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 55 The imperfect knowledge Saints have here, is Satans advantage against them; he often takes them on the blinde side.

1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 147 This is the blindside of my lodging out of town; I must expect such inconveniencies.

1884 Christian World 4 Sept. 657/1 The forts which they were enabled..to approach on their blind side.

1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 212 An instinct for the ‘blind side’ of whatever Hun machine he had in view, made him a master in the art of approaching unobserved.

1959 Times 30 Nov. 3/6 Cambridge were in peril now, but they came again, worked the blind side.

a. Undiscriminating, for which no reason can be given; inconsiderate, heedless, reckless.

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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective]

blinda1400

unchoosinga1586

undiscerning1589

unrespective1609

irrespecting1625

promiscuous1633

incurious1645

indistinct1650

irrespective1650

uncritical1659

indiscerning1664

undistinguishing1665

undistinguishable1702

unrefining1735

indiscriminating1754

undiscriminating1776

indiscriminate1792

unfastidious1816

rough1819

lumping1827

indistinguishing1828

unparticularizing1828

farraginous1837

imperceiverant1844

scattergun1845

undistinctive1851

indiscriminative1854

unselecting1895

scattershot1961

the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless > specifically of actions, feelings, etc.

recklessOE

racklec1405

savagec1425

rash1533

hot-brained1556

rashful1567

blindfold1593

lavish1600

wretchless1607

blind1615

hand over head1682

wild goose1770

plunging1798

wild cat1890

(like a) bull at a (five-barred) gate1896

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4116 To haue her wille blynde.

c1450 Crt. of Love cliii Blind apetite of lust.

1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ ii. §65 The Disciples..became blind and fearelesse.

1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xi. 91 The blind veneration that generally is paid to antiquity.

1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xi. 254 Self-will and blind prejudice.

1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. v. 31 Who came round the corner with such blind speed.

a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 254 His enemies struck at him with blind fury.

b. Purposeless; fortuitous, random.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective]

byc1050

casualc1374

fortuitc1374

fortunelc1374

fortunousc1374

causelessc1386

adventurousc1405

accidental1502

fortunable1509

happya1522

chanceable1549

occasional1569

accidentary1581

emergent1593

streave1598

contingent1604

happening1621

incidental1644

lucky1648

sporadical1654

temerarious1660

spontaneous1664

incidentarya1670

chance1676

antrin?1725

fortuitous1806

sporadic1821

windfall1845

chanced1853

blind1873

happenchance1905

happenstance1905

1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 177 Service..that's blind and objectless—A servant toiling for no master's good.

4. Not possessing intelligence or consciousness; acting without discernment.

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the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [adjective]

unwittyc1000

heartlessa1382

meana1387

conceitless?c1425

insensuat1508

insensate1528

insensible?1531

miskenning1533

unsensible1560

witless1562

unfraught1587

unconceiving1593

stupid1595

small-knowing1598

surd1601

ununderstanding1611

unapprehensible1613

unperceiving?1623

unapprehensive1624

inapprehending1652

incomprehensive1652

inapprehensive1653

impenetrative1684

blind1692

uncomprehensive1694

unpenetrating1701

unmeaning1704

vacant1712

gilly-gaupus1754

unacute1775

unapprehending1794

unpenetrative1795

unwitted1828

uncomprehending1838

irrecognizant1845

vacuous1848

incomprehending1881

mush-headed1884

wantwit1894

doofus1967

acerebral1968

brain-dead1972

goofus1981

1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 20 It is the Product..not of blind Mechanism or blinder Chance.

1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. ix. 152 It is Will and not a blind necessity which rules in the armies of heaven.

1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 292 (note) Throughout the whole realm of nature blind agents or physical laws have been discovered.

†5. That blinds or misleads: false, deceitful. Obsolete.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceptive, misleading

swikelc1000

fellc1300

deceivable1303

falselya1350

blind1393

deceivant1393

fallacec1400

sinister1411

deceivousa1425

deceitful1483

fallacious1509

deceiving?a1513

falsesome1533

sophistical1558

misconceited1595

deceptive1611

abusable1660

self-deceptive1810

flambuginous1813

false1842

funny1903

mamaguy1973

braidie-

1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 73 He..with blinde tales so her ladde That all his will of her he hadde.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kii^v His blynde prophecyes & deceytfull miracles.

1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade v. 3 Iustly called false and blynde.

III. Transferred.

a. Enveloped in darkness; dark, obscure. archaic.

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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective]

blinda1000

darkOE

lightlessOE

murkOE

therka1325

murkfula1400

unsheena1400

tenebrousc1420

tenebrose1490

tenebrate1492

sable?a1513

unlightsome1574

tenebrious1594

blindfold1601

Stygian1602

dayless1657

unenlightened1662

darklinga1718

rayless1727

tenebrific1786

twinkless1830

transdiurnal1848

glimmerless1889

gleamless1891

unlightened1896

a1000 Be Domes Dæge 230 Sauwle on lige On blindum scræfe byrnað & yrnað.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3463 Bituix vn-born a batel blind.

?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Lj^v Goe hide your selfe in a blynde hole.

1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 237 Meeting noe bodie [they] searched..everie blind corner.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico viii. 11 The blind and darksome night.

1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Sept. (1972) VII. 296 The little blind bed-chamber.

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 104 Dark fiend, that hides his blind abode.

†b. Not lighted, having its light extinguished or cut off. blind lantern n. a dark lantern.

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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating > not lighted up

blind1393

firelessc1450

unkindleda1525

unlightened1659

unlit1787

unenlightened1803

the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > with a slide to hide light

blind lantern1581

dark lantern1612

darkie1811

guy1811

1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 228 Ȝe brenneþ, ac ȝe blaseþ nat · and þat is a blynde bekne.

1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (1846) 168 One of these little Lanters, that thei call blinde Lanterns (because thei tourne them, and hide their light when they liste).

1591 in D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. (1717) ii. 221 Two Candlesticks with Two blind Candles.

?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 55 They adore the bare Altar, and blind Candles.

a. Dim, as opposed to bright or clear; dim, like faded writing; indistinct, obscure. Now mostly figurative.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct

dimc1000

blinda1398

undistingued1398

obscure?a1450

undistinct1495

shadowed1588

undistinguishable1600

shady1626

blear1637

filmed1637

indistinguishable1642

crepusculous1646

adumbrated1650

oblite1650

faint1660

monogrammous1678

blurred1701

faintish1712

wispya1717

adumbrant1727

muzzy1744

indistinct1764

fuzzy1778

misty1797

shadowy1797

undistinguished1814

woolly1815

vague1822

furzy1825

mystified1833

slurred1843

feeble1860

smudginga1861

filmy1864

smudgy1865

blurry1884

slurry1937

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [adjective] > inferior

blinda1398

off-colour1860

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xlvii. 851 We vsen to clepe al maner of precious stones that ben nought precious and schynyng, blynde.

c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 83 Þe sunnes bemez bot blo & blynde.

c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. iv. f. 83/1 Auld bukis..writtin craftly on rude and hard parchement. Bot yay wer sa blynd, we mycht nocht reid ilk tent wourd.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blynde letters or wrytynges, caducæ literæ.

1852 N. Hawthorne Grandfather's Chair ii. iv. 20 Written in such a queer, blind..hand.

b. of a road or path: (see quots.)

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct > of path or road

blind1784

1784 G. Washington Diaries II. 304 The path it is said is very blind and exceedingly grown with briers.

1796–1806 B. Hawkins Lett. 112 Continue on a blind tract thro' hilly..land and down a stream.

1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 4 Let him look along that blind road, by which I mean the track so slightly marked by the passengers' footsteps, that it can but be traced by a slight shade of verdure from the darker heath around it, and, being only visible to the eye when at some distance, ceases to be distinguished while the foot is actually treading it.

1820 W. Scott Monastery xxiii.

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters i. 1 A blind pathway..winding through the stunted heath.

c. Used of a letter indistinctly or imperfectly addressed. blind man, blind officer, blind reader, a post-office employé who deals with such letters.

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society > communication > correspondence > letter > [adjective] > indistinctly or imperfectly addressed

blind1864

society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > official of the post > other postal officials

window man1687

window clerk1770

stamper1850

blind man1864

blind reader1864

1864 W. Lewins Her Majesty's Mails 204 The ‘blind Letter Office’ is the receptacle for all illegible, misspelt, and misdirected or insufficiently addressed letters or packets.

1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. A few specimen letters which have recently racked the brains of the ‘blind readers’ at the Post Office.

1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 5 The ingenuity of the ‘blind’ men of the Post Office.

d. Bookbinding. Ungilt; cf. blind-blocking n., blind-tooling n. at Compounds, blind v. 8.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > impressed design > types of

Grolier1827

blind1835

blind-stamped1931

azured1937

1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia 125 Graining may be properly considered as a blind ornament.

1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 105 The block..imprints the device; whether it be gilt or ‘blind’.

a. Out of sight, out of the way, secret, obscure, privy. Cf. blind alley n.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [adjective]

dernOE

blindc1386

secret?a1513

to lie perdu1791

society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective]

secrec1374

blindc1386

privatea1513

secret?a1513

shadowy1555

close1571

retired1593

retrait1603

sequestrate1632

recessful1646

recluse1650

reserved1653

secessive1653

coy1670

sequestrated1726

slya1764

secluded1798

shy1841

retiracied1856

undisprivacied1870

madding1874

c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 105 Lurkynge in hernes and in lanes blynde.

1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1582) 409 a Feasting..their secret friends in gardeins and blind tauerns.

1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 42 Through crosse blynd allye we iumble.

1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Oct. (1970) II. 195 To Paul's churchyard to a blind place, where Mrs. Goldsborough was to meet me.

a1679 T. Blount Boscobel (ed. 3) (1681) ii. 13 To a blind Inn in Charmouth.

1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xx. 300 Baillie Macwheeble having retired to..some blind change-house.

b. Of a way or path: the notion of ‘secret, obscure,’ is often mixed up with those of ‘difficult to trace, confused or confusing, intricate, uncertain’.

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a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 218 Like a mark of knowledge in the turnings that lead unto blind by-ways.

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 316 He..went by certaine blind waies through the mountaines and woods.

1637 J. Milton Comus 7 In the blind mazes of this tangled wood?

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 41 Inaccessible, except by such Windings and blind Ways, as they themselves only, who made them, could find.

1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 76 Through blind ways of the wood he went.

a. Covered or concealed from sight.

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the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden

dighela1000

dernc1000

wriena1250

privyc1300

unshewedc1386

wrapped1398

quatc1425

tectc1440

blinda1522

coucheda1522

dark1532

lurkingc1540

velated1542

hiddena1547

inclusive1554

concealed1558

secret1559

occult1567

disguised1594

occulted1598

derned1600

shrouded1600

latent1605

abstrused1608

supposed1608

unshown1614

enshielda1616

retruse1623

dissembled1631

researched1636

recondite1649

delitescent1653

larved1654

tected1657

bedilt1660

bosomed1667

inhidden1674

underground1677

abditive1727

secreted1756

unextruded1808

unprotruded1812

undisplayed1822

larvated1832

dissimulated1838

latescent1852

squat1956

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. x. 100 Blynd rolkis, of Lybibe.

1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 2^v The keele..ranne vpon a blynde rocke couered with water.

1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry To Rdr. By evry high-way side or blinde ditch.

1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico 47 The place was full of blind Pits covered over with Rubbish.

1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 631 Surrounded with blind rocks, sunk a few feet below the water.

1882 Standard 16 Nov. 3/5 The ditches, overgrown with long grass and trailing brambles, were very ‘blind.’

b. Applied to a corner or other feature where the road or course ahead is concealed from view.

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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > causing lack of visibility

blind1927

zero-zero1930

1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 34 A further safety first proposal..is to eliminate the blind corners, i.e. corners where oncoming traffic cannot be seen.

1954 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves & Feudal Spirit xvi. 161 No speeding? No passing on blind corners?

1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed xii. 148 We could keep at 170 over blind hillbrows.

c. Applied to (the conduct of) a test or experiment in which information about the test that might lead to bias in the results is concealed from the tester or the subject (or both) until after the test is made, esp. as blind testing, blind test. Of a person: taking part in such a test. Also as adv. Cf. double-blind adj.

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the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [adjective] > specific tests

fiery1568

double-blind1950

blind1962

single-blind1963

beta test1978

randomized1978

the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [adverb] > by test where information is hidden

blind1962

the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > where information hidden from tester or subject

double-blind1960

blind test1962

1937 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 26 June 2178/2 The data consisted of the patients' judgments regarding changes in pain. These data were secured in a manner relatively free of bias by the use of the ‘blind test’.]

1962 Lancet 28 Apr. 874/1 The observer was reading the vaccine takes ‘blind’.

1971 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 3 The place: The King's Lynn Festival... The purpose: a ‘blind’ test between a fine and a good red wine.

1971 Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 11/1 20 wines will have to be identified, some of them down to their vintage. Apart from the ‘blind’ tasting there will be a short written paper.

1977 Lancet 5 Nov. 952/2 The performance was scored by two professional musicians... They were ‘blind’ not only to the drug therapy but also to the medical assessments and to each other's scoring.

1980 San Francisco Bay Guardian 16 Oct. 16/2 I participated in a blind tasting designed to compare leading examples of methode Champenoise sparkling wines from several countries.

10. Having no openings or passages for light.

a. Architecture. Of walls, etc.: Without windows or openings; (a window or door) walled up.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [adjective] > types of wall

untiled1377

blind1603

unpanelled1632

unwainscoted1710

weathered1840

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [adjective] > walled up

blind1603

1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 516 The Cloister..shut in on euerie side with high and blind wals.

1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 273 Some of the inhabitants who let the rebels into the place through an old blind door that was broke open for them.

1820 L. Hunt Indicator 28 June 297 This tower..seemed as blind as it was strong.

1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 41 The north walls of both nave and vestry were blind.

1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. iii. 61 In..Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford..the clerestory window has a smaller blind arch on each side of it.

b. Of hedges and the like: Too thick or leafy to be seen through.

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the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having abundant or luxuriant foliage

well-leaved1567

thick-leaved1582

fertile-fresha1616

blind1717

thick-foliaged1827

1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 595 Some Huntsman..From the blind Thicket wounds a stately Deer.

1863 Spring & Sum. Lapland 54 The hedges were getting too blind for hunting.

c. Of an alphabetic letter: written or printed with the loop closed or filled in: spec. in Typography defining the paragraph mark with a closed loop.

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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [adjective] > other forms

arrow-headed1799

nail-headed1801

arrowhead1805

blind1820

crossed1834

ligulate1863

ligulated1864

ligated1866

pot-hooked1898

calculiform1900

1820 J. Keats Lett. (1958) II. 262 The fault is in the Quill: I have mended it and still it is very much inclin'd to make blind es.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 9 Blind P. A paragraph mark ¶ so called from the loop of the P being closed.

1905 F. H. Collins Author & Printer 34 Blind ¶, paragraph mark.

1933 in N.E.D. Suppl. (at cited word) He invariably makes his e's and l's blind.

d. Cookery. Applied to a pastry case baked before the filling is added (see quots.). Also as adv.

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the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [adverb] > baked without filling

blind1943

1943 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. IV. 92/2 Bake ‘blind’ till golden... ‘Blind’ means pricking paste well and filling with tissue paper and beans to stop crust rising.

1952 B. Nilson Penguin Cookery Bk. 313 If the flan is to be baked without a filling (i.e. ‘blind’), prick the bottom well.

1958 Woman 4 Oct. 23/1 ‘Baking blind’, simply means lining the pastry with a round of greaseproof paper, then weighting this down with rice or beans to prevent it rising during cooking.

11.

a. Closed at one end. Cf. blind alley n.

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the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > stopping up or blocking > closed at one end

blind1668

1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. 303 Yet could I not..find the Anastomoses of Vena Cava and Vena Porta open, but all blind.

1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant ii. i. 20 He must meet me in a blind Alley.

1678 W. Salmon tr. Pharmacopœia Londinensis 818 They are of use in the blind Alembick.

1720 J. Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. 12 A Hedge-Press in some Blind-Alley about Little-Britain.

1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 736 The cæcum towards its blind termination.

1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 116 Cross-passages, ‘blind’ holes and ‘pop’ holes.

b. blind holes in Mechanics: holes not coincident in plates to be riveted together.

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society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > groove, channel, or cavity

mortisec1390

rabbet1453

rebate1532

scarcement?1553

riggle1555

chamfering1565

mortise hole1585

rebatement1592

chamfer1601

gain1848

score1850

champer1854

blind holes1869

chase1871

1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding x. 194 The greater number of what are termed blind, or half-blind, holes are found in the edges.

c. Applied to a geographical feature, as a spur, reef, or valley, that terminates abruptly.

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the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > specific shape

mural1774

tooth-like1835

blind1848

teeth-like1884

1848 C. J. Pharazyn Jrnl. 15 Jan. (MS.) 97 Teddy and W. to lambs to drive them to pen, smother'd 10 in a blind gully.

1861 J. von Haast Rep. Topogr. & Geol. Explor. Nelson Province i. 8 We had selected a so-called blind spur, which fell abruptly into a deep gully.

1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. viii. 299 Eventually it proved that the find was but a ‘blind reef’, a ‘pocket’, a mere isolated dribble from the main continuous vein we had at first supposed we had struck.

1898 J. Geikie Earth Sculpt. xiii. 217 Not less characteristic features of the karst-lands are the so-called blind-valleys and dry-valleys. Through the former a river flows to disappear into a tunnel at the closed or blind end.

1942 O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xxii. 578 Blind valleys differ from pocket valleys in that the latter develop where underground water emerges in greater or less volume.

d. Of a baggage-car on a train: see quot. 1901. U.S.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > types of railway carriage or wagon

platformed1883

blind1893

piggyback1936

vacuum-fitted1937

1893 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 8 Nov. 1/4 They didn't even have an opportunity to fire a tramp off the blind baggage.

1901 Scribner's Mag. 29 429/1 The train's got a blind baggage-car on... That's a car that ain't got no door in the end that's next the engine.

1912 C. Mathewson Pitching xi. 249 He had come all the way either by side-door special or blind baggage.

1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 120 With much caution I made my way..till I got near enough to the depot to get aboard the blind end of a baggage car.

e. Of a shell: That fails to go off.

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1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 182 The wail of the falling shell ended in a muffled thump that proclaimed the missile ‘blind’ or a ‘dud’.

12. Of plants: Without buds or eyes, or without a terminal flower. blind bud, one that bears no bloom or fruit, an abortive bud.

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the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [adjective] > without buds

eyeless?1440

unbudded1820

budless1837

blind1861

1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 479 The blind eyes are the best for fruit.

1884 J. E. Taylor Sagacity of Plants 70 Should such flowers fail to be crossed, no fruit is borne, and the flowers are then blind.

1887 N.E.D. at Blind Mod. These asters have turned out ‘blind.’

13. blind story n. one without point.

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the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale

tale of a tub1532

cock-and-bull story1670

blind story1699

peramble1824

shaggy dog story1937

1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. lxiv He insinuates a blind story about something and some body.

1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. ii. 46 This story which in truth is but a blind one.

†14. transferred from sight to sound. Obsolete.

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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > dull

blinda1398

flat1626

unmodulated1755

immodulated1765

toneless1833

inflectionless1878

timbreless1928

a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1388 Þe blynde voice stynteþ soone and is stuffed and dureþ nouȝt longe, as þe soune of erþene vessell.

IV. Combinations.

15. General, as blind-born, blind-drunk (Sc. blin'-fou), so intoxicated as to see no better than a blind man, blind-eyed, blind-hearted, blind-weary.

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the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally blind or deaf

blind-heartedc975

adder-deaf1597

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind

star-blindeOE

bissonc950

blind-bornc975

blindc1000

darkOE

purblinda1325

sightlessa1325

start blinda1387

stark blinda1425

stone-blindc1480

beetle-blind1556

beetle1566

eyeless?1570

purblinded1572

high-gravel-blind1600

not-seeing?1602

kind-blind1608

bat-blind1609

unseeing1609

blindful1621

winking-eyed1621

lamplessa1625

deocular1632

lightless1638

bat-eyed1656

stock-blind1675

duncha1692

gazelessa1819

visionlessa1821

blind-eyed1887

stone-eyed1890

unsighted1983

the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk

drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350

to-drunka1382

as drunk as the devilc1400

sow-drunk1509

fish-drunk1591

swine-drunk1592

gone1603

far gone1616

reeling drunk1620

soda1625

souseda1625

blind1630

full1631

drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652

as full (or tight) as a tick1678

clear1688

drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700

as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727

as drunk as a piper1728

blind-drunkc1775

bitch foua1796

blootered1820

whole-seas over1820

three sheets in the wind1821

as drunk as a loon1830

shellaced1881

as drunk as a boiled owl1886

stinking1887

steaming drunk1892

steaming with drink1897

footless1901

legless1903

plastered1912

legless drunk1926

stinko1927

drunk as a pissant1930

kaylied1937

langers1949

stoned1952

smashed1962

shit-faced1963

out of (also off) one's bird1966

trashed1966

faced1968

stoned1968

steaming1973

langered1979

annihilated1980

obliterated1984

wankered1992

muntered1998

the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > other spec.

forsung?a1366

fordreamed?a1400

forplaint1423

forwallowed1423

forcrieda1600

overdriven1653

over-drove1751

mooth1768

forridden1820

fatigued1853

stale1856

fucked-out1862

wooden-weary1888

blind-weary.1923

partied-out1950

stressed out1980

c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ix. 32 Ego ðæs blinda-borones.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 136 Þu art blint iheorted. & nene sist hu poure þuart & naked of halinesse.

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13601 Ȝe Sai þat blind-born man was he.

1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxii. 610 The poor, Blind-Born Man.

c1775 Sandman's Wedding: A Cantata She being blind drunk Sir, Joe drove her away in his Cart.

1827 W. Clarke Every Night Bk. 191 Whenever I've been tipsy in your company, you have always been blind drunk.

1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. x. 132 Hang me if I wasn't blind drunk at the end of it.

1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. x. 186 Tiresias..The blind-eyed, the foreseer.

1902 Daily Chron. 18 Feb. 3/2 Are we to suppose, then, that Goethe..was a blind-eyed fool?

1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 99 [The bat] Flying slower, Seeming to stumble, to fall in air. Blind-weary.

1935 Mind 44 434 Blind-born persons, such as Helen Keller, talk intelligently about colours.

1953 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iv. 140 Sure, I got so blind drunk at the Inn I forgot all about our scheme.

Compounds

Also blind-coal n., blind gut n., blindhead n.¹, blind-nettle n., blind-worm n.

blind ad n. U.S. (see quot. 1948).

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1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. xi. 731 Blind ad., an unsigned newspaper or magazine advertisement.

1962 ‘A. A. Fair’ Stop at Red Light ii. 25 The insurance company have been running a blind ad..offering one hundred dollars for any witness..to an accident..at Seventh and Main Streets.

blind advertisement n.

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society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising in the press > [noun] > types of press advertisement

lost1762

lost(s) and founds1777

small advertisement1811

blind advertisement1842

want advertisementa1871

reading notice1872

small ad1875

want ad1892

classified1909

smalls1919

tombstone1948

tele ad1967

matrimonials1989

1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 2 43 The Puff Preliminary is known to..‘printer's devils’, by the less euphonious title of ‘a blind advertisement’.

blind approach n. Aeronautics an approach made without direct observation (see 1j); applied attributively to a radio navigation system controlling such an approach.

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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > sudden rapid descent > descent prior to landing > landing approach > types of

blind approach1936

power approach1938

missed approach1951

instrument approach1957

1936 C. B. Allen Wonder Book of Air 300 To aid him in this, the present set-up in the radio ‘blind approach’ system..includes the use of a string of powerful and distinctive lights.

1947 R. A. Smith Radio Aids to Navig. xi. 88 It is generally felt now that some form of glide path is preferable to an altimeter for blind approach.

blind area n. Architecture a clear space around the basement wall of a house.

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1852 Illustr. Gloss. Pract. Archit. 47 Blind area, an area built round the basement' wall of a house for the purpose of keeping it dry.

blind-axle n. an axle that turns but does not move any other part of the mechanism; also called dead-axle.

blind back n. applied attributively to a type of house that has no back door.

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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > house of specific shape or style

back-to-back1626

detached1706

self-contained1767

ground-floored1824

semi-detached1859

bungaloid1927

bi-level1929

one-up, one-down1933

blind back1937

terraced1958

tri-level1960

split entry1967

two-up two-down1973

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 53 House in Wallgate quarter. Blind back type. One up, one down.

1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 56 Houses of what is called the ‘blind back’ type..in which the builder has omitted to put in a back door.

blind-ball n. the Puff-ball ( Lycoperdon bovista), a fungus containing dust which is supposed to blind the eyes.

blind-beetle n. a popular name for beetles which are apt to fly against people, esp. by night; hence blind-beetledness; also, a small beetle found in rice.

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1649 J. Lightfoot Battle with Wasp's Nest (1825) 389 If you must shame any body for blind beetledness.

blind-blocking n. Bookbinding = blind-tooling n.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of

fillet1641

blind-tooling1818

blocking1846

gold blocking1852

blind-blocking1870

run-up1875

gouge1885

azure1894

goffering1894

blind-stamping1910

1870 Bookseller 12 Dec. 1342 They [sc. the presses] can be used for Blind Blocking whole cases, including two sides, and back, by one impression; or they can be used to Block whole cases, part Blind, part Gold..by one impression.

1898 Catal. Bks. Dean & Son Ltd. 5 in Brit. Bks. in Print 3 Barnaby Rudge,..Bound in cloth boards, orchids being embossed in blind blocking, titles on back and front stamped in gold.

1987 Bookman's Catal. I. 99/1 Same blind-blocking of sides but publisher's imprint at foot of spines is in much larger type.

blind booking n. the booking of films by cinema proprietors without previous selection on their merits.

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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > [noun] > booking of films by cinema proprietors

block-booking1925

blind booking1927

1927 Glasgow Herald 20 Jan. 7 ‘Blind-booking’ was responsible for a very large percentage of the machine-made pictures which came from America to this country.

1927 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 9/2 The Labour-Socialists..are in favour of the proposals for the abolition of blind booking and restrictions on advance booking.

blind creek n. (see quot.).

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the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > dry

blind creek1886

1886 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. 115 Blind Creek, a creek, dry, except during wet weather.

blind date n. [date n.² 8a] originally and chiefly U.S. colloquial (see quot. 1929); also, the person with whom such a ‘date’ is arranged.

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society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement

date1885

dating1921

blind date1925

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > date with person never seen before

blind date1925

society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement > person

blind date1925

date1925

the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > date with person never seen before > person with whom one has a blind date

blind date1925

1925 Literary Digest 14 Mar. 65/1 No, got a blind date on to-night.

1929 Amer. Speech 4 420 A blind date, a date with someone whom the datee does not know but which is arranged by a third person.

1947 Chicago Tribune 14 June 18/8 In describing your blind date, I would say she has a wonderful personality.

blind faith belief or confidence (in a person or thing) without any evidence or proof.

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1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xvii. f. xxii^v Such I mene as moste trust haue and blynde fayth in these blynde ymagys.

1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvii. 207 She had been strong enough to snap asunder the bonds she had accepted in blind faith.

2004 First Things (Nexis) 1 May 18 This exaltation of blind faith frequently goes hand in hand with a strong predestinationism.

blind-fish n. the Amblyopsis spelæus, a fish without eyes found in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky.

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the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Cyprinodontidae

mummichog1787

killifish1836

cyprinodont1857

blind-fish1880

1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 618 The famous Blind Fish of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky..is destitute of external eyes.

blind-gallery n. (see sense 10).

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blind-harry n. Scottish blind-man's-buff.

blind hazard n. (a) a card game; (b) Golf (see quot.).

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others

laugh and lie down1522

mack1548

decoyc1555

pinionc1557

to beat the knave out of doors1570

imperial1577

prima vista1587

loadum1591

flush1598

prime1598

thirty-perforce1599

gresco1605

hole1621

my sow's pigged1621

slam1621

fox-mine-host1622

whipperginnie1622

crimpa1637

hundred1636

pinache1641

sequence1653

lady's hole1658

quebas1668

art of memory1674

costly colours1674

penneech1674

plain dealing1674

wit and reason1680

comet1685

lansquenet1687

incertain1689

macham1689

uptails1694

quinze1714

hoc1730

commerce1732

matrimonya1743

tredrille1764

Tom come tickle me1769

tresette1785

snitch'ems1798

tontine1798

blind hazard1816

all fives1838

short cards1845

blind hookey1852

sixty-six1857

skin the lamb1864

brisque1870

handicap1870

manille1874

forty-five1875

slobberhannes1877

fifteen1884

Black Maria1885

slapjack1887

seven-and-a-half1895

pit1904

Russian Bank1915

red dog1919

fan-tan1923

Pelmanism1923

Slippery Sam1923

go fish1933

Russian Banker1937

racing demon1938

pit-a-pat1947

scopa1965

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hazards

hazard1744

blind hazard1816

bunker1824

sand-bunker1824

sand1842

break-club1857

water hazard1889

trap1890

casual water1899

pot bunker1899

sand-trap1922

1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 263 We are informed the modern name of this game [Bankrout] is Blind Hazard.

1900 A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 315 A Blind hazard is also a hazard which is hidden from his view.

blind-hob n. some game unknown.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > blind-man's-buff, etc.

hoodman-blind1565

hoodwink1574

Hob-man blind1599

blind-man's-buff1600

bob and hit1611

Harry racket1611

blind-bob1783

bond-man-blind1783

jingling match1801

pawn party1831

blind-hob1834

shadow buff1879

Blind Tom1909

1834 A. E. Bray Warleigh II. iii. 72 In the servants' hall, playing at blind hob, and hot cockles.

blind hole n. Golf (see quots.).

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > section of

hole1874

blind hole1900

1900 A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 315 A Blind hole is one of which the putting-green is not visible to the player as he plays his shot.

blind-hookey n. a card game.

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1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xi. 152 What do you say to a game at all-fours, blind-hookey, odd or even,..just to pass time?

1861 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip xxi, in Cornhill Mag. Oct. 388 Victimized by his own uncle..at a game at ‘blind hookey.’

blind ink n. (see quot.).

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society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > ink which swells into relief

blind inka1884

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 106/2 Blind Ink. Invented by Edison. An ink which..swells up into relief on the paper.

blind-level n. (see quot.).

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1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blind level, 1. A level not yet connected with other workings. 2. A level for drainage, having a shaft at either end, and acting as an inverted siphon.

blind literature n. (see quots.)

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1921 Post Office Guide Aug. 15 ‘Blind Literature’. Papers of any kind, periodicals, and books, impressed in ‘Braille’ or other special type for the use of the blind.

† blind-mouse n. Obsolete the mole; also the water shrew-mouse.

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the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Talpidae > genus Talpa (mole)

wanteOE

mouldwarpa1325

molec1400

talpec1440

blind-mouse1607

mowdie1656

field tortoise1694

Talpa1706

the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Soricidae > genus Neomys (water-shrew)

water shrew-mouse1764

blind-mouse1770

water shrew1771

pig mouse1905

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 727 It hunteth Moles or blinde Mice.

1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. 83 It [sc. the water shrewmouse] is called, from the smallness of its eyes, the blind mouse.

blind-pig n. U.S. colloquial a place where liquor is illicitly sold.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house

shebeenc1787

joint1821

kiddleywink1830

blind tiger1857

shanty1862

dive1871

blind-pig1887

speakeasy1889

shebeen1900

booze can1905

speak1930

speako1931

nip joint1936

society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling liquor > unlicensed > specific illicit or illegal

poteen shop1834

blind-pig1887

hole in the wall1887

speakeasy1889

1887 Minnesota Gen. Statutes Suppl. (1888) 248 Whoever shall attempt to evade or violate any of the laws of this state..by means of the artifice or contrivance known as the ‘Blind Pig’ or ‘Hole in the Wall’..shall..be punished.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Sept. But a ‘blind pig’ is at best but a sordid institution.

1904 Harper's Weekly 20 Aug. 1272 Six non-commissioned officers have been reduced to the ranks for running what is technically known as a ‘blind pig’, or unlawful canteen.

1961 Spectator 28 July 135 Blind pigs—establishments with anonymous blank facades entered by a basement front door with a peep-hole.

blind-pigger n. U.S. colloquial

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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > black marketeer or boot-legger

bootlegger1889

blind-pigger1894

legger1926

black marketeer1941

blacketeer1942

black marketer1942

1894 Voice (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 1/5 Headed by one of the blind-piggers who was under arrest.

blind-pigging n. U.S. colloquial

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society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > in liquor

bootlegging1903

blind-pigging1918

1918 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Blind-pigging, n.

1927 Blackwood's Mag. June 833/1 Amongst the common herd two crimes ranked as serious—‘blind-pigging’ and ‘high-grading’.

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blind poker n. U.S. (see sense 1h).

blind printing n. (see quots.).

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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > other techniques

gypsography1840

chemigraphy1853

cameo-embossing1878

chemigraph1892

line-work1895

blind printing1904

gauffrage1904

1904 E. F. Strange Japanese Colour Prints xi. 110 In addition to the blocks for various colours, an effect of blind printing (gauffrage) was often secured by the use of an additional printing from a clean block.

1926 H. Hubbard How to distinguish Prints 21 Charpentier and others..experimented with ‘blind printing’, that is, the use of an uninked relief block that merely embossed the paper with its engraved design.

blind roller n. [roller n.¹ 18] (see quot. 1948).

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the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > other

way1578

wake1753

clean, clear breach1867

feather-spray1867

south-western1872

bow-wave1877

gravity wave1877

blind roller1888

gravitational wave1899

Kelvin wave1922

rooster tail1934

slide1935

bow shock1938

beacher1956

1888 G. O. Preshaw Banking under Difficulties xxv. 155 ‘Blind rollers’ often rising and swamping a boat.

1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. Blind rollers, relatively heavy and often dangerous ocean swell caused by water in motion meeting lesser depth as it passes over shoals or approaches land.

blind-seed disease n. a fungal disease of rye grass in which the seed fails to germinate; so blind-seed fungus.

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the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > various diseases

red rot1798

bunt1800

heart rot1808

yellow rust1808

pepperbrand1842

black spot1847

take-all1865

anthracnose1877

coffee-leaf disease1877

white rot1879

bladder-brand1883

basal rot1896

whitehead1898

black root rot1901

chancre1903

black pod1904

bud-rot1906

frog-eye1906

wildfire1918

pasmo1926

blind-seed disease1939

sharp eyespot1943

the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants

bunt1800

Sclerotium1813

Alternaria1834

oidium1836

Septoria1836

conk1851

Rhizopus1854

snow-mould1855

vine-mildew1855

vine-fungus1857

bramble-brand1867

Microsphaera1871

wood-fungus1876

sphacelia1879

blue mould1882

orange fungus1882

cluster-cup1883

hop-mildew1883

powdery mildew1886

cladosporium1887

shot-hole fungus1897

verdet1897

wound-fungus1897

fusarium1907

verticillium1916

rhynchosporium1918

coral-spot1923

blind-seed fungus1939

sclerotinia1950

1939 J. C. Neill & E. O. C. Hyde in N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. Feb. 283A Low-germination trouble of otherwise apparently sound, well-harvested crops [of rye-grass] is caused by a pathogenic fungus... So unnoticeable are the symptoms that it has not yet even received a common name... It is proposed that it be called Blind-seed Disease.

1939 J. C. Neill & E. O. C. Hyde in N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. Feb. 288A The blind-seed fungus appears to be allied to Helotium herbarum Fries.

1956 Nature 10 Mar. 466/1 Blind seed disease of ryegrass caused by Phialea temulenta.

blind-shaft n. a winze.

blind-shell n. Gunnery a shell containing no powder, also one that fails to explode when fired.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell

carcass1684

light ball1729

anchor ball1779

shrapnel1810

hollow shot1862

segment-shell1862

blind-shell1864

ring-shot1868

star shell1876

ring-shell1879

pipsqueak1900

Black Maria1914

coal box1914

crump1914

Jack Johnson1914

Archie1915

Little Willie1915

whizz-bang1915

woolly bear1915

fizzbang1916

five-ninea1918

ashcan1918

cream puff1918

sea-bag1918

pudding1919

G.I. can1929

flechette1961

1864 Daily Tel. 4 May The day was closed with..blind shells for the purpose of completing the tables of ranges.

blind spot n. (a) the spot on the retina which is insensible to light; (b) Cricket that spot of ground in front of a batter where a ball pitched by the bowler leaves the batter in doubt whether to play forward or back; (c) Radio (see quot. 1923); (d) transferred and figurative.

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the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > a perverse inclination or act

wrong-headedness1748

warp1764

squint1774

blind spot1864

society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > obstruction or poor reception

blind spot1864

screening1902

fading1912

night effect1914

night error1921

wipeout1921

skip1925

radio fade-out1927

fade-out1937

the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > retina > other parts of retina

macula1670

fundus1682

yellow spot1798

macula lutea1818

ora serrata1833

corresponding points1841

identical points1841

blind spot1864

fixation-point1890

cyanolabe1958

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > of specific difficulty to batsman

blind spot1864

1864 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 301 Now the great difficulty of slows, besides being (as they ought all to be) ‘in the blind spot’, consists in the elevation..of a dropping ball.

1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ix. 219 So long as the image..rests upon the entrance of the optic nerve, it is not perceived, and hence this region of the retina is called the blind spot.

1891 W. G. Grace Cricket iii. 73 Too soon would come a ball on the blind spot.

1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island Pref. p. xli You find that there is a blind spot on their moral retina, and that this blind spot is the military spot.

1910 J. Galsworthy Justice i. 19 No doing anything with them... They've got a blind spot.

1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 7 Wireless blind spots, where distant broadcasting is heard more clearly than that nearer at hand.

1932 E. V. Lucas Reading, Writing & Remembering viii. 150 He was too full of prejudices and had too many blind spots, to be the perfect critic.

blind staggers n. (see stagger n.¹ 2).

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the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid

turn?1523

sturdiness1552

turn-sick1566

sturdy1570

dazy1577

stavers1597

(to have) the staggers1599

gid1601

giddy1603

turnabout1605

stacker1610

turning-evil1614

megrims1639

blind staggers1784

the goggles1793

dazing1799

stomach-staggers1831

turn-sick1834

turn-side1845

phalaris staggers1946

1784 J. Lewis Diary 4 Mar. in Proc. New Jersey Hist. Soc. (1941) LIX. 169 We discovered that my horse had a distemper called the blind staggers.

1839 H. Colman 2nd Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 75 Having no exercise, it tends to produce the blind staggers.

1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 341 The disease is frequently called ‘blind staggers’.

blind-stamped adj. Bookbinding

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > impressed design > types of

Grolier1827

blind1835

blind-stamped1931

azured1937

1931 Library XI. 395 Long after blind-stamped pictorial panels had gone out of use in Paris.

1931 Library XI. 425 Business in the Gothic blind-stamped bindings.

blind-stamping n. Bookbinding = blind-tooling n.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of

fillet1641

blind-tooling1818

blocking1846

gold blocking1852

blind-blocking1870

run-up1875

gouge1885

azure1894

goffering1894

blind-stamping1910

1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 217/1 English binders excelled in this art of ‘blind’ stamping, that is, without the use of gold leaf.

blind stitch n. a stitch taken on one side of the material so as to be invisible on the other; hence as v. transitive, to sew or fasten with blind stitch.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > stitch > invisible stitch

blind stitcha1884

catch stitch1892

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > with invisible stitch

slip-stitch1872

catch-stitch1879

blind stitcha1884

stoat1901

a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 107/2 Blind Stitch. (Harness)... A stitch that is shown on one side only of the leather.

1909 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 7/5 Facings should be blind-stitched into place.

blind-story n. Architecture a triforium or series of arches below the clerestory of a cathedral, admitting no light.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > triforium > [noun]

blind-storyc1520

triforium1703

upfloor1879

c1520 Abbott Mill Vitæ Dunkeld. Episcop. in J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (1845) I. 57 Construxit usque secundos arcus, vulgariter le blyndstorys.

1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) Introd. 18 There is a passage in the thickness of the wall of the clerestory as well as in the triforium or blind-story.

blind tiger n. U.S. = blind-pig n.

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the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house

shebeenc1787

joint1821

kiddleywink1830

blind tiger1857

shanty1862

dive1871

blind-pig1887

speakeasy1889

shebeen1900

booze can1905

speak1930

speako1931

nip joint1936

1857 Spirit of Times 23 May 182/1 I sees a kinder pigeon-hole cut in the side of a house, and over the hole, in big writin', ‘Blind Tiger, ten cents a sight.’.. That ‘blind tiger’ was an arrangement to evade the law, which won't let 'em sell licker there, except by the gallon.

1884 Arkansas Digest Laws 1883 493 Any person..who shall sell..any alcohol..by such device as is known as ‘the blind tiger’,..shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 16 Sept. It will be interesting to note the effect [of the beer gardens] on the ‘blind tigers’, which have continued to flourish in spite of executive vigilance.

1926 D. L. Colvin Prohibition in U.S. 297 Some effort was made to suppress blind tigers which were then chiefly supplied by moonshine stills.

Blind Tom n. blind-man's-buff.

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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > blind-man's-buff, etc.

hoodman-blind1565

hoodwink1574

Hob-man blind1599

blind-man's-buff1600

bob and hit1611

Harry racket1611

blind-bob1783

bond-man-blind1783

jingling match1801

pawn party1831

blind-hob1834

shadow buff1879

Blind Tom1909

1909 T. M. Healey in Hansard Commons 3 Sept. 767 He never could understand this system of playing Blind Tom with the House of Commons—especially in a taxing statute.

blind-tooling n. Bookbinding an ornamental impression on a book-cover produced by a heated block, or tool, without goldleaf; = blind-blocking n.

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society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of

fillet1641

blind-tooling1818

blocking1846

gold blocking1852

blind-blocking1870

run-up1875

gouge1885

azure1894

goffering1894

blind-stamping1910

1818 H. Parry Art of Bookbinding In addition to the gilt back, rolled plain, that is, blind-tooling, on the inside of the board.

1907 Forest & Stream May 215/2 Light purple cloth, same tooling except that blind tooling around border of both covers is different and more elaborate.

2004 J. Cambras Compl. Art Bookbinding 108/1 Blind tooling has been around longer than bookmaking and has been used to decorate books since their inception.

blind trust n. North American a trust that administers the private business interests of a person in public office in order to prevent any possibility of conflict between these and the public interest.

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society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > type of trust

resulting trust1693

shifting use1765

passive trust1837

living trust1913

blind trust1969

1969 Sunday Times 23 Mar. 34 David Packard has put his $300 million worth of Hewlett Packard stock into a so-called blind trust.

1972 Fortune Jan. 110/1 He resigned all of his other posts and put his holdings into a blind trust before taking the job.

1979 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. a1 The day he became President, Mr. Carter's 62 percent interest in the business was transferred to a ‘blind trust’ administered by..an Atlanta lawyer.

blind-window n. ? a window that admits no light; an arch of the blind-story.

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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > triforium > [noun] > arch of

blind-window1506

1506 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 107 I byqueth toward the makyng of ij blynde wyndowes in the seid monasterij..xli.

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to rob someone blind: to steal from someone mercilessly or shamelessly.

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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person

ripeOE

robc1225

ravishc1384

to-reave1393

to shake (a person) out ofc1412

to purge a person's purse1528

cashiera1616

to rob someone blind1897

1897 Los Angeles Times 5 Apr. 5/2 England can afford to do it... It has robbed India blind.

1920 J. E. Buttree Despoilers 55 He could have informed them that Rome and the Priesthood were robbing them blind.

1986 F. Iyayi Heroes (1989) xii. 91 The real enemies are the politicians who robbed the country blind, who looted the country and prompted the generals to intervene.

2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass xxxi. 178 And even if you are mistress of this farm, they will not take you seriously. They'll try to rob you blind.

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blind item n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) an item listed in a catalogue, ledger, etc., without a description of what it is; (b) a (scandalous) story, esp. in a gossip column, which does not reveal the names of the people being discussed.

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?1858 Facts for People of Michigan! (Republican Party, Mich.) 12/1 There is a large number of blind items audited,..designated ‘sundries’, which is the only indication of their character.

1937 Washington Post 7 Mar. 3/1 No form of Hollywood gossip is half so vicious as those ‘blind items’ which are passed along to you surreptitiously over the luncheon table and behind closed doors.

1957 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 8 Oct. 4 a/6 The Treasury Dept. looked into Gibbons' books. They found some blind items which Gibbons couldn't explain publicly.

2006 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 23 Sept. That blind item I wrote some months ago about a PBA assistant coach being involved in cybersex should have served as a wake-up call.

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blind carbon copy n. = blind copy n. 2.Originally used of carbon-paper copies; later used irrespective of medium.

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1968 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 10 Sept. 11 a/2 When typing letters that require blind carbon copies to be sent, don't remove the original letter and then type the names of those who are to receive the blind carbons.

1992 Infoworld (Nexis) 6 Apr. 108 Standard memos include options for carbon copy and blind carbon copy.

2000 S. Sweeney Internet Marketing for your Tourism Business vii. 157 Make sure that you know how to use the blind carbon copy function in your e-mail program.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	blind
释义	blindn. Brit. /blʌɪnd/, U.S. /blaɪnd/ Forms: Also Middle English blynde, 1500s blynd, 1500s–1600s blinde. Etymology: < blind v. (? or blind adj.) 1. Anything which obstructs the light or sight. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [noun] > anything obstructing sight blind1702 occluder1930 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [noun] > that which blind1702 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vii. iv. 21/1 Blinds to keep..Light from entring into the Souls of Men. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 402 If I have an antient window overlooking my neighbour's ground, he may not erect any blind to obstruct the light. 1816 Ld. Byron Parisina xvii, in Siege of Corinth 83 To bind Those eyes which would not brook such blind. 2. spec. A screen for a window, made of woven material mounted on a roller, of wire gauze, etc.; used to prevent the entrance of too much light, or to keep people from seeing in. Venetian blinds n. those made of light laths fixed on strips of webbing. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > screen > [noun] > other types of speer1379 traverse1400 transom-lattice1689 blind1730 window blind1730 spire1768 Venetian window-blind1769 window shade1789 tatty1792 tat1810 Japanese screen1872 fusuma1880 curtain1895 mosquito door1929 tuku-tuku1936 fly-wire door1952 table screen1971 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > blind umbrella1688 chick1698 blind1730 sunblind1766 Venetian window-blind1769 sunshade1774 roller blind1780 Venetian blind1791 Venetian1816 jalousie1824 shutter-blind1833 jealousy1834 festoon blind1837 shade1869 roll-up1960 mini-blind1974 1730 H. Fielding Tom Thumb ii. ii. 10 Ha! the Window-Blinds are gone, A Country Dance of Joys is in your Face. 1771 J. S. Copley in Copley-Pelham Lett. (1914) 142 Those Windows having new fassioned Blinds such as you see in Mr Clarke's Keeping room. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 33 The women..flew to their blinds to discover the cause. 1788 Ld. Auckland Corr. (1861) II. 67 The making visits..is done in a carriage with blinds. 1855 C. Dickens Little Dorrit (1857) i. i. 2 Blinds, shutters, curtains, awnings, were all closed and drawn. 3. A blinker for a horse; cf. Compounds 1b. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > blinkers winkers1583 eye-flap1611 spectacle1632 lunettea1656 headboard1679 blinkers1732 bluff1777 blinder1807 bumblea1825 blind1828 blind-winkers1831 1828 N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) A blind..for a horse. 1848 Congress. Globe 30 June App. 820/1 [Mr. Polk] was worked into the Presidency with Oregon and Texas on either side, as a horse is worked with blinds. 1901 Munsey's Mag. Aug. 739/1 A halter..has a soft leather covered bit, and is without blinds. 4. Fortification. A blindage. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > [noun] > shield to protect gunners blind1644 gun-house1736 blindage1812 blinding1829 mantlet1859 shield1898 1644 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) II. 739 Massey caused a blind to be made across the street. 1710 London Gaz. No. 4692/1 We had thrown up some Blinds to cover our Men. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) 5. Any means or place of concealment. spec. a hiding place in which a hunter conceals himself from the game. (U.S.). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [noun] hidelsc975 hidela1300 bushc1330 hulkc1330 derna1340 tapissinga1340 coverta1375 hiding1382 loting-placea1398 cover14.. hiding placec1440 mewa1450 closetc1450 hole1483 cure1502 secret1530 shrouding place1571 ivy-bush1576 coney burrowa1586 hidlings1597 foxhole1606 shrouding corner1610 recess1611 subterfuge1616 latibule1623 latebra1626 blind1646 privacy1648 hide1649 retreat1697 rathole1770 hidey-hole1817 tod hole1846 hulster1880 hideout1885 cwtch1890 castle1898 lurk1906 stash1927 hideaway1930 the world > food and drink > hunting > shooting > [noun] > place to shoot from > place of concealment blind1818 hide1864 1646 J. Shirley Upon Death of C. D. in Poems i. 61 So will they..sleep Till the last Trumpet wake 'em, and then creep Into some Blind. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 299 The watchful Shepherd, from the Blind, Wounds with a random Shaft the careless Hind. 1818 Niles' Reg. 15 64/2 Col. Boon rode to a deer lick, seated himself within a blind raised to conceal him from the game. 1869 Game Laws (Penn.) in Fur, Fin & Feather (1872) 94 No person shall..build blinds for the purpose of killing..any wild turkey. 1874 J. W. Long Amer. Wild-fowl Shooting 45 Ingenuity in the providing of proper ambush, or blind, as all such hiding places are generally termed by wild-fowlers. 1887 Nation (N.Y.) 31 Mar. 73/2 Along the Atlantic coast, among the gunners who often hunt in parties stationed near together behind blinds, waiting for the flock of migratory birds. 1894 Outing 24 73/2 A glance..discloses the fact that no time should be wasted in getting started for the blinds. 6. figurative. Any thing or action intended to conceal one's real design; a pretence, a pretext. spec. (see quot. 1929). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > of something illegal blind1694 front1905 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 208 A Practice, which duly seen into, and stript of its Hypocritical Blinds, could not [etc.]. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 2 Sept. 2/2 Her constant Care of me was only a Blind. 1732 J. Swift Exam. Abuses Dublin 26 Those Verses were only a Blind to conceal the most dangerous Designs of that Party. 1833 S. T. Coleridge Table-talk 14 May There is one sonnet [of Shakspeare's] which, from its incongruity, I take to be a purposed blind. 1929 Amer. Speech 4 338 Blind, a legitimate business used to conceal an illegitimate one. 1938 F. D. Sharpe Sharpe of Flying Squad viii. 107 Another man..used to trade dogs as a blind. †7. Nautical. A spritsail [= Dutch blinde] . Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > masts, rigging, or sails > sail > [noun] > sail set on a sprit blind1535 spritsail1750 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) I. 20 With fuksaill, topsaill, manesall, musall, and blynd. 8. In Poker, a stake put up by a player before seeing his cards (see quots.); cf. blind adj. 1h. Also attributive in blind-money. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > stake blind1857 straddle1864 table stake1874 raise1921 1857 T. Frere Hoyle's Games (new ed.) 289 Should a party see fit to call the blind, [he] must put twice the number in the pool. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents at Home ii. 19 Now you talk! You see my blind and straddle it like a man. 1882 Poker 49 The straddle is nothing more than a double blind. 1882 Poker 91 It is an error on the part of the Age to fill the Blind simply because he has already invested the Blind-money. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/2 The next player [to the age] may double the blind, i.e., raise to double what the age staked; the next may straddle the blind, i.e. double again,..and so on. Only the age can start a blind. 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms Blind (in poker), the ante deposited by the age previous to the deal... To make a blind good costs double the amount of the ante, and to make a straddle good costs four times the amount of the blind. 1894 Congress. Rec. May 4408/2 Put up your blind. It's my deal. 1898 Hoyle's Games Modernized 121 [Draw Poker.] This stake [put up by the elder hand, the ‘Age’], from the fact that it is made without seeing the cards, is known as a ‘blind’. 9. A blind baggage car on a train (see blind adj. 11d). U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > railway wagon or carriage > van for luggage baggage-car1833 baggage-trucka1861 luggage-van1876 blind1893 baggage1926 1893 Chicago Record 14 July 11/3 In hobo language ‘beating the blinds’ means to steal a ride on the mail car next to the engine. 1895 Dial. Notes 1 390 Jump the blind, to steal a ride on platform of baggage-car. 1948 Sat. Evening Post 31 July 89/1 If there were any hobos on the blind, they would step off into my arms. 10. [ < blind adj. 1g] A drunken bout or orgy; a binge. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [noun] > drinking-bout cups1406 drinking?1518 banquet1535 Bacchanal1536 pot-revel1577 compotation1593 rouse1604 Bacchanalia1633 potmealc1639 bout1670 drinking-bout1673 carouse1690 carousal1765 drunk1779 bouse1786 toot1790 set-to1808 spree1811 fuddlea1813 screed1815 bust1834 lush1841 bender1846 bat1848 buster1848 burst1849 soak1851 binge1854 bumming1860 bust-out1861 bum1863 booze1864 drink1865 ran-tan1866 cupping1868 crawl1877 hellbender1877 break-away1885 periodical1886 jag1894 booze-up1897 slopping-up1899 souse1903 pub crawl1915 blind1917 beer-up1919 periodic1920 scoot1924 brannigan1927 rumba1934 boozeroo1943 sesh1943 session1943 piss-up1950 pink-eye1958 binge drinking1964 1917 A. Waugh Loom of Youth i. iii. 37 For six weeks we'll train like Hades, and then, when we've got the cup, we'll have a blind. 1936 G. Greene Journey without Maps ii. iv. 189 It became more and more like a blind in Paris..in the Montparnasse bar. 1943 J. B. Priestley Daylight on Sat. x. 67 I'm not off on a blind, if that's what you're worrying about. 1943 Mind 52 280 How much of my reaction against a ‘blind’ on a Saturday night is due to my puritanical upbringing? Compounds C1. General attributive. a. (In sense 2.) blind-cord n. blind-maker n. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > maker of furniture or furnishings > [noun] > blind-maker blind-maker1837 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades 488 Blind (Venetian)..maker. 1894 Daily News 12 Nov. 7/2 William Wilshaw.., a blindmaker, was sentenced to death. blind-pulley n. blind-roller n. ΚΠ 1881 Mechanic §714 How to make a blind-roller. b. (In sense 3.) blind-halter n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle haltera1000 bridleOE brake1430 gorel1480 watering bridle1502 mollet-bridle1503 headgear1538 slipe1586 chase-halter1607 branks1657 bit-bridle1676 curb-bridle1677 chain-bridle1690 blind-halter1711 ox-riem1817 blind-bridle1833 bell-bridle1836 training halter1842 hackamore1850 Pelham bridle1875 quoiler1876 knee-halter1892 war bridle1962 side pull1965 1711 London Gaz. No. 4875/4 Galled on both sides of her Head with a blind Halter. blind-winkers n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > blinkers winkers1583 eye-flap1611 spectacle1632 lunettea1656 headboard1679 blinkers1732 bluff1777 blinder1807 bumblea1825 blind1828 blind-winkers1831 1831 W. Youatt Horse xiii. 223 Last of all, the blind winkers. C2. blind-bridle n. a bridle with blinkers. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > halter or bridle haltera1000 bridleOE brake1430 gorel1480 watering bridle1502 mollet-bridle1503 headgear1538 slipe1586 chase-halter1607 branks1657 bit-bridle1676 curb-bridle1677 chain-bridle1690 blind-halter1711 ox-riem1817 blind-bridle1833 bell-bridle1836 training halter1842 hackamore1850 Pelham bridle1875 quoiler1876 knee-halter1892 war bridle1962 side pull1965 1833 J. Hall Harpe's Head 30 Some rode with blind-bridles. 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 376 A blind bridle may be tolerated on a blind horse. 1872 E. Eggleston End of World ix. 65 I'm dead sot in favor of charity,..but I a'n't a-goin' to have her put a blind-bridle on to me. 1883 G. W. Cable Dr. Sevier vi A quarter circle of iron-work set like a blind-bridle. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2021). blindadj.adv. Brit. /blʌɪnd/, U.S. /blaɪnd/ Forms: Old English– blind, (Middle English blynt, Middle English–1500s blynd(e, Middle English–1600s blinde, 1700s– Scottish blin'). Origin: A word inherited from Germanic. Etymology: A Common Germanic adjective: Old English blind = Old Saxon blind (Middle Dutch blint(d), Dutch blind), Old Norse blindr (Danish, Swedish blind), Old High German blint, (Middle High German blint(d), modern German blind), Gothic blinds < Germanic blindo-z, of which the Aryan form would be bhlendh-: compare Lithuanian bléndza-s blind, blę́sti to become dark, Latvian blenzt to see dimly, Old Church Slavonic blědŭ pale, dim, pointing perhaps to an earlier sense ‘become dim or dark’ (Franck). I. Literal. 1. a. Destitute of the sense of sight, whether by natural defect or by deprivation. In comparisons, as blind as a bat or †brickbat; also blind as a beetle, blind mole, blind stone (see the nouns); to turn a blind eye: see eye n.¹ Phrases 2t. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) x. 46 Bartimeus sæt blind wið þone weg wædla. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 1859 He wass æness wurrþenn blind. c1366 G. Chaucer A.B.C. 105 O verrey light of eyen that ben blynde. c1420 Chron. Vilod. 3632 As bleynde as a betulle. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. v. sig. Hv^v Blind men shold iudge no colours. 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xvi. 5) Blynd folke runne gadding hither and thither like mad Bedlems. 1588 J. Harvey Discoursiue Probl. conc. Prophesies 40 As blinde, as moules, or bats. 1618 S. Latham New & 2nd Bk. Falconrie xiv. 51 After the old prouerbe, Who so blinde, as hœ that will not see? 1639 J. Clarke Paroemiologia 52 As blind as a bat at noone. ?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 27 Hittee missee, happy go lucky, as the blind Man kill'd the Crow. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 464. ¶5 Jupiter..left him to strole about the World in the Blind Condition wherein Chremylus beheld him. 1840 in Amer. Speech (1965) 40 127 For blind as a bat he was. 1850 C. Dickens David Copperfield xlii. 438 The old Scholar..is as blind as a brickbat. 1859 D. Masson Life Milton I. 737 Galileo, frail and blind. 1925 W. Deeping Sorrell & Son xviii. §2 I was blind as a bat. Pushed into a job by my people. 1943 E. Caldwell Georgia Boy iii. 50 I've done gone and got as blind as a bat. I can't see nothing at all. b. Temporarily deprived of sight, as when dazzled with a bright light. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > [adjective] > dazzled blind1483 dazzling1571 dazed1581 dazzled1581 owl-sighted1596 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton F ij Lyke hym whyche is blynde of the rayes of the sonne. c. Used punningly of a needle: Eyeless. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [adjective] > sewing > types of needle eyeless1497 large-eyed1575 blinda1800 a1800 W. Cowper Man. more Anc. Art of Poetry The smaller sort, which matrons use, Not quite so blind as they. d. absol. A blind person, esp. as plural. Those who are blind, as a section of the community. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness > person blindc1000 blindmanc1325 Samsonc1460 blindling1549 groper1699 darkie1807 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind > blind person blindc1000 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xx. 30 And þa sæton twegen blinde wið þone weg. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 14370 Crepels gan, þe blind haf sight. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 13527 Wit þis blind þar can he mete. 1611 Bible (King James) Matt. xv. 14 If the blinde lead the blinde, both shall fall into the ditch. View more context for this quotation 1887 N.E.D. at Blind Mod. The Royal Asylum for the Blind. e. (attributive of prec.) Of, pertaining to, or for the use of the blind as a class: as blind asylum. ΚΠ 1881 Durham Univ. Jrnl. 12 Nov. The question of blind education. 1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 8 June 7/2 The requirements for the blind scholarships are similar. f. (See quot. 1879.) ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Pleuronectiformes (flat-fish) > [adjective] > of part of flat-fish blind1879 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 292/2 The side [of a flat-fish] which is turned towards the bottom..is generally colourless, and called ‘blind’, from the absence of an eye on this side. g. Short for blind-drunk at sense 15. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 1630 J. Taylor Water-cormorant in Wks. iii. 5/1 For though he be as drunke as any Rat, He hath but catcht a Foxe, or Whipt the Cat. Or some say hee's bewitcht, or scratcht, or blinde, Which are the fittest tearmes that I can finde. 1845 A. M. Hall Whiteboy I. v. 96 They'll be all blind by the time they get home from Gracey Flyn's wedding. 1903 ‘A. McNeill’ Egregious Eng. (ed. 3) 145 The artisan..improves the shining hours, by ‘getting blind’, to use his own elegant phrase. 1930 W. S. Maugham Gent. in Parlour xliii. 263 On the night he arrived in London he would get blind, he hadn't been drunk for twenty years. h. In Poker, to go blind: to put up a blind (see blind n. 8); hence to go (a specified stake) blind. Hence applied to forms of Poker in which this is done; so blind hand. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [noun] > type of hand two bullets and a bragger1807 full1843 full hand1846 pat hand1865 blind hand1872 full house1879 blaze1880 tiger1889 kilter1895 drawing hand1910 bust1932 made hand1974 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics brag1734 fill1865 to go blind1872 to go it blind1872 stay1882 re-raise1903 sandbag1940 slow-play1971 1872 [see sense 1i]. 1882 Poker 88 For some reasons players never give the blind hand credit for a good or even an average hand. 1885 Encycl. Brit. XIX. 283/2 The age is sometimes allowed to go blind, i.e., to raise the ante before he sees his cards. 1885 B. L. Farjeon Sacred Nugget xvii He put in [the pool] a bank-note, and said, ‘Five pound blind’. Antonio..put in an I.O.U. for ten pounds, saying ‘I straddle you’. i. to go it blind: to act without previous investigation of the circumstances; to plunge without regard to the risks involved. Also to go blind (on ——). Originally U.S. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > be incautious [verb (intransitive)] to go it1840 to go it blind1840 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > enter into incautiously or rashly [verb (transitive)] to go it blind1840 to go bald-headed (into, for, at)1848 to walk into ——1911 society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > poker > [verb (intransitive)] > actions or tactics brag1734 fill1865 to go blind1872 to go it blind1872 stay1882 re-raise1903 sandbag1940 slow-play1971 1840 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 14 Mar. 18 Don't think of ‘going it blind’, but according to Walker! 1846 Congress. Globe App. 120 All I ask of him is that he will not ‘go it blind’ upon Oregon. 1848 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 1st Ser. viii. 111 It gives a Party Platform, tu, jest level with the mind..Of..honest folks thet mean to go it blind. 1862 J. R. Lowell Biglow Papers 2nd ser. iv. 10 An' agin to impress on the poppylar mind The comfort an' wisdom o' goin' it blind. 1872 M. S. De Vere Americanisms 328 Poker, when played by betting before looking at one's hand, is called Blind Poker, and this has given rise to the very common phrase, to go it blind, used whenever an enterprise is undertaken without previous enquiry. 1875 W. T. Sherman Mem. I. 342 I know that in Washington I am incomprehensible, because at the outset of the war I would not go it blind. 1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 63 And faith he went the pace and went it blind. 1909 Daily Chron. 8 Feb. 4/4 If that be true, shall we be quite wise to ‘go blind’ on Dreadnoughts alone? 1924 J. Galsworthy White Monkey iii. viii Yes; they go it blind; it's the only logical way now. j. Aeronautics. Applied to flying and aerial bombing executed by means of instruments without direct observation. Also as adv. Hence blind-bombing, blind-flying, blind landing attributive; blind approach n. (see Compounds). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [noun] > by instruments blind-flying1919 instrument flying1924 inertial system1952 inertial navigation1954 inertial guidance1955 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > navigation of course of aircraft > [adverb] > by instruments blind1919 society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [adjective] > relating to landing by instruments blind landing1919 instrument1924 society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1919 Aviation & Aeronaut. Engin. 1 Feb. 22 Flying in fog, clouds or darkness—which may be called ‘blind flying’—involves difficulties not encountered in clear air. 1928 A. Klemin If you want to Fly 54 We have all sorts of instruments to tell us whether the plane is flying over an even keel, but it seems almost impossible to fly ‘blind’. 1930 Techn. News Bull., Bureau of Standards June 61/1 Various combinations of the three elements making up the blind-landing system have been tried. 1936 Nature 23 May 863/2 His development of blind-flying instruments employing gyroscopic principles. 1937 Times 16 Oct. 11/5 A machine which..can be landed ‘blind’ from any height. 1940 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 284 The diminution of the damage done by blind bombing. 1944 Times 31 Jan. 4/6 Frankfurt was covered by cloud and ‘blind bombing’ methods were used. 1958 Times 17 Oct. 3/4 The blind landing experimental unit have now shown that it is possible to complete the landing automatically without the pilot touching the controls or even seeing the ground. k. a blind: used colloquially with a following noun to mean ‘a single ——’, ‘the least or slightest ——’. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > smallness of quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > any, however small eacheOE anyOE leastOE ever anyOE smallc1330 a blind1938 1938 ‘J. Curtis’ They drive by Night xvii. 193 I don't want a blind word out of either of you. 1941 Penguin New Writing 2 87 There's not a blind thing you can do about it. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 9 'E wooden take a blind bit er notice of me. 1966 ‘L. Lane’ ABZ of Scouse 9 Nobody could get a blind bit er sense outer 'im. l. to swear blind: to affirm emphatically and without qualification. colloquial. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion without proof > [verb (intransitive)] > emphatically to swear blind1963 1963 J. Fowles Collector ii. 138 He swears blind that he sent the CND cheque, but I don't know. 1975 Economist 25 Jan. 72/3 The state is now to control over two-thirds of British Petroleum—but swears blind it won't behave as if it did. 1985 Byte Feb. 190/3 You can swear blind it's solving a partial differential equation and they would be hard put to prove it is not. II. figurative. Without perception. 2. a. Of persons, their faculties, etc.; also transferred of things: Lacking in mental perception, discernment, or foresight; destitute of intellectual, moral, or spiritual light. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [adjective] thestera900 thestria900 blindc1000 blindfoldc1450 blinkard?1528 purblind1533 blinded1535 blear-eyed1561 obcaecate1568 unilluminated1579 fonda1592 blear-witted1600 short-sighted1622 baby-blind1627 obcaecated1641 misty-brained1649 twilighta1677 blindfolded1730 short-sighted1736 unpliable1769 misty1820 myopical1830 visionless1856 myopic1891 blinkered1897 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > want of knowledge, ignorance > intellectual ignorance > [adjective] thestera900 thestria900 blindc1000 darkc1350 lightless?1406 obscurea1500 mistya1522 blinded1535 unilluminated1579 unlightened1587 stone-blind1596 endarkened1612 dark1628 benighted1637 unenlightened1650 bedarkened1655 unirradiated1792 darkened1856 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceived blindc1000 aguiledc1300 overseena1393 guiledc1400 bleared1549 fonded1566 siled1567 illuded1610 outwitted1766 sold1876 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxiii. 17 Ealá ge dysegan and blindan. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 16954 Unnwis mann iss blunnt & blind. a1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 240 Four thynges..Þat mase a mans wytt blynd. c1385 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. II. 230 Blynde jugement of men. 1594 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. II. 2 They are called blind in holy scripture, that haue not the true knowledge of God. 1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 89 The blindest and corruptest times of Popedom. 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) ii. 35 How blind some parents are! 1877 J. B. Mozley Univ. Serm. (ed. 3) i. 8 That would be a blind and mistaken inference. b. Const. to (in obsolete). ΚΠ 1665 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building (new ed.) 8 Surveyours who..are blind in the faults which their Workmen commit. 1759 R. Jackson Hist. Rev. Pennsylvania 236 The Assembly chose..to be blind to the artificial Part of his Speech. 1856 G. O. Trevelyan in Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) II. xiv. 460 To be blind to the merits of a great author. c. blind side n. the unguarded, weak or assailable side of a person or thing, weakness; also, formerly, the unsightly or unpresentable side. Also, the side on which the view is obstructed from sight. In Rugby, the side of a scrum opposite to that on which the main line of the opponents' backs is ranged. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [noun] > ugly thing eyesore1530 blind side1606 dissightc1710 ugly1755 desight1828 eye-sorrow1828 sight1862 a blot (up)on the landscape1912 to be no oil painting1919 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [noun] > liability to harm, loss, etc. > action or condition of exposure to harm > unprotectedness > unprotected side or point blind side1606 exposure?1611 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > football > rugby football > [noun] > scrum > side of scrum blind side1606 open side1906 1606 G. Chapman Gentleman Vsher i. sig. A3^v For that, wee'le follow the blinde side of him. 1655 W. Gurnall Christian in Armour: 1st Pt. 55 The imperfect knowledge Saints have here, is Satans advantage against them; he often takes them on the blinde side. 1711 J. Swift Lett. (1767) III. 147 This is the blindside of my lodging out of town; I must expect such inconveniencies. 1884 Christian World 4 Sept. 657/1 The forts which they were enabled..to approach on their blind side. 1917 ‘Contact’ Airman's Outings 212 An instinct for the ‘blind side’ of whatever Hun machine he had in view, made him a master in the art of approaching unobserved. 1959 Times 30 Nov. 3/6 Cambridge were in peril now, but they came again, worked the blind side. 3. a. Undiscriminating, for which no reason can be given; inconsiderate, heedless, reckless. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adjective] blinda1400 unchoosinga1586 undiscerning1589 unrespective1609 irrespecting1625 promiscuous1633 incurious1645 indistinct1650 irrespective1650 uncritical1659 indiscerning1664 undistinguishing1665 undistinguishable1702 unrefining1735 indiscriminating1754 undiscriminating1776 indiscriminate1792 unfastidious1816 rough1819 lumping1827 indistinguishing1828 unparticularizing1828 farraginous1837 imperceiverant1844 scattergun1845 undistinctive1851 indiscriminative1854 unselecting1895 scattershot1961 the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless > specifically of actions, feelings, etc. recklessOE racklec1405 savagec1425 rash1533 hot-brained1556 rashful1567 blindfold1593 lavish1600 wretchless1607 blind1615 hand over head1682 wild goose1770 plunging1798 wild cat1890 (like a) bull at a (five-barred) gate1896 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) l. 4116 To haue her wille blynde. c1450 Crt. of Love cliii Blind apetite of lust. 1615 W. Bedwell tr. Mohammedis Imposturæ ii. §65 The Disciples..became blind and fearelesse. 1753 W. Hogarth Anal. Beauty xi. 91 The blind veneration that generally is paid to antiquity. 1822 W. Hazlitt Table-talk I. xi. 254 Self-will and blind prejudice. 1854 C. Dickens Hard Times i. v. 31 Who came round the corner with such blind speed. a1859 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1861) V. 254 His enemies struck at him with blind fury. b. Purposeless; fortuitous, random. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > chance or causelessness > [adjective] byc1050 casualc1374 fortuitc1374 fortunelc1374 fortunousc1374 causelessc1386 adventurousc1405 accidental1502 fortunable1509 happya1522 chanceable1549 occasional1569 accidentary1581 emergent1593 streave1598 contingent1604 happening1621 incidental1644 lucky1648 sporadical1654 temerarious1660 spontaneous1664 incidentarya1670 chance1676 antrin?1725 fortuitous1806 sporadic1821 windfall1845 chanced1853 blind1873 happenchance1905 happenstance1905 1873 R. Browning Red Cotton Night-cap Country iii. 177 Service..that's blind and objectless—A servant toiling for no master's good. 4. Not possessing intelligence or consciousness; acting without discernment. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > [adjective] unwittyc1000 heartlessa1382 meana1387 conceitless?c1425 insensuat1508 insensate1528 insensible?1531 miskenning1533 unsensible1560 witless1562 unfraught1587 unconceiving1593 stupid1595 small-knowing1598 surd1601 ununderstanding1611 unapprehensible1613 unperceiving?1623 unapprehensive1624 inapprehending1652 incomprehensive1652 inapprehensive1653 impenetrative1684 blind1692 uncomprehensive1694 unpenetrating1701 unmeaning1704 vacant1712 gilly-gaupus1754 unacute1775 unapprehending1794 unpenetrative1795 unwitted1828 uncomprehending1838 irrecognizant1845 vacuous1848 incomprehending1881 mush-headed1884 wantwit1894 doofus1967 acerebral1968 brain-dead1972 goofus1981 1692 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. vi. 20 It is the Product..not of blind Mechanism or blinder Chance. 1853 F. D. Maurice Prophets & Kings Old Test. ix. 152 It is Will and not a blind necessity which rules in the armies of heaven. 1865 J. B. Mozley 8 Lect. Miracles vii. 292 (note) Throughout the whole realm of nature blind agents or physical laws have been discovered. †5. That blinds or misleads: false, deceitful. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > [adjective] > deceptive, misleading swikelc1000 fellc1300 deceivable1303 falselya1350 blind1393 deceivant1393 fallacec1400 sinister1411 deceivousa1425 deceitful1483 fallacious1509 deceiving?a1513 falsesome1533 sophistical1558 misconceited1595 deceptive1611 abusable1660 self-deceptive1810 flambuginous1813 false1842 funny1903 mamaguy1973 braidie- 1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis I. 73 He..with blinde tales so her ladde That all his will of her he hadde. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Kii^v His blynde prophecyes & deceytfull miracles. 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade v. 3 Iustly called false and blynde. III. Transferred. 6. a. Enveloped in darkness; dark, obscure. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] blinda1000 darkOE lightlessOE murkOE therka1325 murkfula1400 unsheena1400 tenebrousc1420 tenebrose1490 tenebrate1492 sable?a1513 unlightsome1574 tenebrious1594 blindfold1601 Stygian1602 dayless1657 unenlightened1662 darklinga1718 rayless1727 tenebrific1786 twinkless1830 transdiurnal1848 glimmerless1889 gleamless1891 unlightened1896 a1000 Be Domes Dæge 230 Sauwle on lige On blindum scræfe byrnað & yrnað. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 3463 Bituix vn-born a batel blind. ?1571 tr. G. Buchanan Detectioun Marie Quene of Scottes sig. Lj^v Goe hide your selfe in a blynde hole. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 237 Meeting noe bodie [they] searched..everie blind corner. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico viii. 11 The blind and darksome night. 1666 S. Pepys Diary 26 Sept. (1972) VII. 296 The little blind bed-chamber. 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iii. 104 Dark fiend, that hides his blind abode. †b. Not lighted, having its light extinguished or cut off. blind lantern n. a dark lantern. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > unilluminated or unilluminating > not lighted up blind1393 firelessc1450 unkindleda1525 unlightened1659 unlit1787 unenlightened1803 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [noun] > lamp > lantern > with a slide to hide light blind lantern1581 dark lantern1612 darkie1811 guy1811 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xx. 228 Ȝe brenneþ, ac ȝe blaseþ nat · and þat is a blynde bekne. 1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (1846) 168 One of these little Lanters, that thei call blinde Lanterns (because thei tourne them, and hide their light when they liste). 1591 in D. Defoe Mem. Church of Scotl. (1717) ii. 221 Two Candlesticks with Two blind Candles. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. v. 55 They adore the bare Altar, and blind Candles. 7. a. Dim, as opposed to bright or clear; dim, like faded writing; indistinct, obscure. Now mostly figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > gem or precious stone > diamond > [adjective] > inferior blinda1398 off-colour1860 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xvi. xlvii. 851 We vsen to clepe al maner of precious stones that ben nought precious and schynyng, blynde. c1400 (?c1380) Pearl l. 83 Þe sunnes bemez bot blo & blynde. c1540 J. Bellenden tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. vii. iv. f. 83/1 Auld bukis..writtin craftly on rude and hard parchement. Bot yay wer sa blynd, we mycht nocht reid ilk tent wourd. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Blynde letters or wrytynges, caducæ literæ. 1852 N. Hawthorne Grandfather's Chair ii. iv. 20 Written in such a queer, blind..hand. b. of a road or path: (see quots.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct > of path or road blind1784 1784 G. Washington Diaries II. 304 The path it is said is very blind and exceedingly grown with briers. 1796–1806 B. Hawkins Lett. 112 Continue on a blind tract thro' hilly..land and down a stream. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 4 Let him look along that blind road, by which I mean the track so slightly marked by the passengers' footsteps, that it can but be traced by a slight shade of verdure from the darker heath around it, and, being only visible to the eye when at some distance, ceases to be distinguished while the foot is actually treading it. 1820 W. Scott Monastery xxiii. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters i. 1 A blind pathway..winding through the stunted heath. c. Used of a letter indistinctly or imperfectly addressed. blind man, blind officer, blind reader, a post-office employé who deals with such letters. ΘΚΠ society > communication > correspondence > letter > [adjective] > indistinctly or imperfectly addressed blind1864 society > communication > correspondence > postal services > [noun] > official of the post > other postal officials window man1687 window clerk1770 stamper1850 blind man1864 blind reader1864 1864 W. Lewins Her Majesty's Mails 204 The ‘blind Letter Office’ is the receptacle for all illegible, misspelt, and misdirected or insufficiently addressed letters or packets. 1883 Pall Mall Gaz. 20 Aug. A few specimen letters which have recently racked the brains of the ‘blind readers’ at the Post Office. 1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 13 May 5 The ingenuity of the ‘blind’ men of the Post Office. d. Bookbinding. Ungilt; cf. blind-blocking n., blind-tooling n. at Compounds, blind v. 8. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > impressed design > types of Grolier1827 blind1835 blind-stamped1931 azured1937 1835 ‘J. A. Arnett’ Bibliopegia 125 Graining may be properly considered as a blind ornament. 1846 G. Dodd Brit. Manuf. 6th Ser. 105 The block..imprints the device; whether it be gilt or ‘blind’. 8. a. Out of sight, out of the way, secret, obscure, privy. Cf. blind alley n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > a secret place, hiding place > [adjective] dernOE blindc1386 secret?a1513 to lie perdu1791 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > retirement or seclusion > secluded place or place of seclusion > [adjective] secrec1374 blindc1386 privatea1513 secret?a1513 shadowy1555 close1571 retired1593 retrait1603 sequestrate1632 recessful1646 recluse1650 reserved1653 secessive1653 coy1670 sequestrated1726 slya1764 secluded1798 shy1841 retiracied1856 undisprivacied1870 madding1874 c1386 G. Chaucer Canon's Yeoman's Prol. & Tale 105 Lurkynge in hernes and in lanes blynde. 1557 T. North tr. A. de Guevara Diall Princes (1582) 409 a Feasting..their secret friends in gardeins and blind tauerns. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 42 Through crosse blynd allye we iumble. 1661 S. Pepys Diary 15 Oct. (1970) II. 195 To Paul's churchyard to a blind place, where Mrs. Goldsborough was to meet me. a1679 T. Blount Boscobel (ed. 3) (1681) ii. 13 To a blind Inn in Charmouth. 1814 W. Scott Waverley II. xx. 300 Baillie Macwheeble having retired to..some blind change-house. View more context for this quotation b. Of a way or path: the notion of ‘secret, obscure,’ is often mixed up with those of ‘difficult to trace, confused or confusing, intricate, uncertain’. ΚΠ a1593 H. Smith Wks. (1866–7) I. 218 Like a mark of knowledge in the turnings that lead unto blind by-ways. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 316 He..went by certaine blind waies through the mountaines and woods. 1637 J. Milton Comus 7 In the blind mazes of this tangled wood? 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 41 Inaccessible, except by such Windings and blind Ways, as they themselves only, who made them, could find. 1870 W. Morris Earthly Paradise: Pt. III 76 Through blind ways of the wood he went. 9. a. Covered or concealed from sight. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden dighela1000 dernc1000 wriena1250 privyc1300 unshewedc1386 wrapped1398 quatc1425 tectc1440 blinda1522 coucheda1522 dark1532 lurkingc1540 velated1542 hiddena1547 inclusive1554 concealed1558 secret1559 occult1567 disguised1594 occulted1598 derned1600 shrouded1600 latent1605 abstrused1608 supposed1608 unshown1614 enshielda1616 retruse1623 dissembled1631 researched1636 recondite1649 delitescent1653 larved1654 tected1657 bedilt1660 bosomed1667 inhidden1674 underground1677 abditive1727 secreted1756 unextruded1808 unprotruded1812 undisplayed1822 larvated1832 dissimulated1838 latescent1852 squat1956 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) iii. x. 100 Blynd rolkis, of Lybibe. 1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. i. f. 2^v The keele..ranne vpon a blynde rocke couered with water. 1614 G. Markham Cheape & Good Husbandry To Rdr. By evry high-way side or blinde ditch. 1650 R. Stapleton tr. F. Strada De Bello Belgico 47 The place was full of blind Pits covered over with Rubbish. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) II. 631 Surrounded with blind rocks, sunk a few feet below the water. 1882 Standard 16 Nov. 3/5 The ditches, overgrown with long grass and trailing brambles, were very ‘blind.’ b. Applied to a corner or other feature where the road or course ahead is concealed from view. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > causing lack of visibility blind1927 zero-zero1930 1927 W. E. Collinson Contemp. Eng. 34 A further safety first proposal..is to eliminate the blind corners, i.e. corners where oncoming traffic cannot be seen. 1954 P. G. Wodehouse Jeeves & Feudal Spirit xvi. 161 No speeding? No passing on blind corners? 1957 S. Moss In Track of Speed xii. 148 We could keep at 170 over blind hillbrows. c. Applied to (the conduct of) a test or experiment in which information about the test that might lead to bias in the results is concealed from the tester or the subject (or both) until after the test is made, esp. as blind testing, blind test. Of a person: taking part in such a test. Also as adv. Cf. double-blind adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [adjective] > specific tests fiery1568 double-blind1950 blind1962 single-blind1963 beta test1978 randomized1978 the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [adverb] > by test where information is hidden blind1962 the world > action or operation > endeavour > trial or experiment > trial, test, or testing > [noun] > specific tests or testing > where information hidden from tester or subject double-blind1960 blind test1962 1937 Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 26 June 2178/2 The data consisted of the patients' judgments regarding changes in pain. These data were secured in a manner relatively free of bias by the use of the ‘blind test’.] 1962 Lancet 28 Apr. 874/1 The observer was reading the vaccine takes ‘blind’. 1971 Daily Tel. 25 Nov. 3 The place: The King's Lynn Festival... The purpose: a ‘blind’ test between a fine and a good red wine. 1971 Daily Tel. 20 Dec. 11/1 20 wines will have to be identified, some of them down to their vintage. Apart from the ‘blind’ tasting there will be a short written paper. 1977 Lancet 5 Nov. 952/2 The performance was scored by two professional musicians... They were ‘blind’ not only to the drug therapy but also to the medical assessments and to each other's scoring. 1980 San Francisco Bay Guardian 16 Oct. 16/2 I participated in a blind tasting designed to compare leading examples of methode Champenoise sparkling wines from several countries. 10. Having no openings or passages for light. a. Architecture. Of walls, etc.: Without windows or openings; (a window or door) walled up. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > wall of building > [adjective] > types of wall untiled1377 blind1603 unpanelled1632 unwainscoted1710 weathered1840 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > [adjective] > walled up blind1603 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 516 The Cloister..shut in on euerie side with high and blind wals. 1736 T. Carte Hist. Life Duke Ormonde I. 273 Some of the inhabitants who let the rebels into the place through an old blind door that was broke open for them. 1820 L. Hunt Indicator 28 June 297 This tower..seemed as blind as it was strong. 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 41 The north walls of both nave and vestry were blind. 1874 J. H. Parker Introd. Study Gothic Archit. (ed. 4) i. iii. 61 In..Christ Church Cathedral, Oxford..the clerestory window has a smaller blind arch on each side of it. b. Of hedges and the like: Too thick or leafy to be seen through. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > plant defined by leaves > [adjective] > having abundant or luxuriant foliage well-leaved1567 thick-leaved1582 fertile-fresha1616 blind1717 thick-foliaged1827 1717 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad III. xi. 595 Some Huntsman..From the blind Thicket wounds a stately Deer. 1863 Spring & Sum. Lapland 54 The hedges were getting too blind for hunting. c. Of an alphabetic letter: written or printed with the loop closed or filled in: spec. in Typography defining the paragraph mark with a closed loop. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > formation of letters > [adjective] > other forms arrow-headed1799 nail-headed1801 arrowhead1805 blind1820 crossed1834 ligulate1863 ligulated1864 ligated1866 pot-hooked1898 calculiform1900 1820 J. Keats Lett. (1958) II. 262 The fault is in the Quill: I have mended it and still it is very much inclin'd to make blind es. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 9 Blind P. A paragraph mark ¶ so called from the loop of the P being closed. 1905 F. H. Collins Author & Printer 34 Blind ¶, paragraph mark. 1933 in N.E.D. Suppl. (at cited word) He invariably makes his e's and l's blind. d. Cookery. Applied to a pastry case baked before the filling is added (see quots.). Also as adv. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > pastry > [adverb] > baked without filling blind1943 1943 A. L. Simon Conc. Encycl. Gastron. IV. 92/2 Bake ‘blind’ till golden... ‘Blind’ means pricking paste well and filling with tissue paper and beans to stop crust rising. 1952 B. Nilson Penguin Cookery Bk. 313 If the flan is to be baked without a filling (i.e. ‘blind’), prick the bottom well. 1958 Woman 4 Oct. 23/1 ‘Baking blind’, simply means lining the pastry with a round of greaseproof paper, then weighting this down with rice or beans to prevent it rising during cooking. 11. a. Closed at one end. Cf. blind alley n. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > [adjective] > stopping up or blocking > closed at one end blind1668 1668 N. Culpeper & A. Cole tr. T. Bartholin Anat. (new ed.) i. 303 Yet could I not..find the Anastomoses of Vena Cava and Vena Porta open, but all blind. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant ii. i. 20 He must meet me in a blind Alley. 1678 W. Salmon tr. Pharmacopœia Londinensis 818 They are of use in the blind Alembick. 1720 J. Swift Proposal Use Irish Manuf. 12 A Hedge-Press in some Blind-Alley about Little-Britain. 1847–9 Todd's Cycl. Anat. & Physiol. IV. i. 736 The cæcum towards its blind termination. 1878 R. Jefferies Gamekeeper at Home 116 Cross-passages, ‘blind’ holes and ‘pop’ holes. b. blind holes in Mechanics: holes not coincident in plates to be riveted together. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > building or providing with specific parts > specific parts built or constructed > [noun] > groove, channel, or cavity mortisec1390 rabbet1453 rebate1532 scarcement?1553 riggle1555 chamfering1565 mortise hole1585 rebatement1592 chamfer1601 gain1848 score1850 champer1854 blind holes1869 chase1871 1869 E. J. Reed Shipbuilding x. 194 The greater number of what are termed blind, or half-blind, holes are found in the edges. c. Applied to a geographical feature, as a spur, reef, or valley, that terminates abruptly. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > structure of the earth > structural features > [adjective] > specific shape mural1774 tooth-like1835 blind1848 teeth-like1884 1848 C. J. Pharazyn Jrnl. 15 Jan. (MS.) 97 Teddy and W. to lambs to drive them to pen, smother'd 10 in a blind gully. 1861 J. von Haast Rep. Topogr. & Geol. Explor. Nelson Province i. 8 We had selected a so-called blind spur, which fell abruptly into a deep gully. 1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. viii. 299 Eventually it proved that the find was but a ‘blind reef’, a ‘pocket’, a mere isolated dribble from the main continuous vein we had at first supposed we had struck. 1898 J. Geikie Earth Sculpt. xiii. 217 Not less characteristic features of the karst-lands are the so-called blind-valleys and dry-valleys. Through the former a river flows to disappear into a tunnel at the closed or blind end. 1942 O. D. von Engeln Geomorphol. xxii. 578 Blind valleys differ from pocket valleys in that the latter develop where underground water emerges in greater or less volume. d. Of a baggage-car on a train: see quot. 1901. U.S. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [adjective] > types of railway carriage or wagon platformed1883 blind1893 piggyback1936 vacuum-fitted1937 1893 Daily Ardmoreite (Ardmore, Chickasaw Nation) 8 Nov. 1/4 They didn't even have an opportunity to fire a tramp off the blind baggage. 1901 Scribner's Mag. 29 429/1 The train's got a blind baggage-car on... That's a car that ain't got no door in the end that's next the engine. 1912 C. Mathewson Pitching xi. 249 He had come all the way either by side-door special or blind baggage. 1926 J. Black You can't Win ix. 120 With much caution I made my way..till I got near enough to the depot to get aboard the blind end of a baggage car. e. Of a shell: That fails to go off. ΚΠ 1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 182 The wail of the falling shell ended in a muffled thump that proclaimed the missile ‘blind’ or a ‘dud’. 12. Of plants: Without buds or eyes, or without a terminal flower. blind bud, one that bears no bloom or fruit, an abortive bud. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > bud > [adjective] > without buds eyeless?1440 unbudded1820 budless1837 blind1861 1861 Trans. Illinois State Agric. Soc. 1859–60 4 479 The blind eyes are the best for fruit. 1884 J. E. Taylor Sagacity of Plants 70 Should such flowers fail to be crossed, no fruit is borne, and the flowers are then blind. 1887 N.E.D. at Blind Mod. These asters have turned out ‘blind.’ 13. blind story n. one without point. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > unintelligible language, gibberish > [noun] > instance of > rambling tale tale of a tub1532 cock-and-bull story1670 blind story1699 peramble1824 shaggy dog story1937 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) Pref. p. lxiv He insinuates a blind story about something and some body. 1762 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting II. ii. 46 This story which in truth is but a blind one. †14. transferred from sight to sound. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [adjective] > dull blinda1398 flat1626 unmodulated1755 immodulated1765 toneless1833 inflectionless1878 timbreless1928 a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xix. cxxxi. 1388 Þe blynde voice stynteþ soone and is stuffed and dureþ nouȝt longe, as þe soune of erþene vessell. IV. Combinations. 15. General, as blind-born, blind-drunk (Sc. blin'-fou), so intoxicated as to see no better than a blind man, blind-eyed, blind-hearted, blind-weary. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > emotionally blind or deaf blind-heartedc975 adder-deaf1597 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > excess in drinking > [adjective] > drunk > completely or very drunk drunk as a (drowned) mousea1350 to-drunka1382 as drunk as the devilc1400 sow-drunk1509 fish-drunk1591 swine-drunk1592 gone1603 far gone1616 reeling drunk1620 soda1625 souseda1625 blind1630 full1631 drunk (also merry, tipsy) as a lord1652 as full (or tight) as a tick1678 clear1688 drunk (dull, mute) as a fish1700 as drunk as David's sow or as a sow1727 as drunk as a piper1728 blind-drunkc1775 bitch foua1796 blootered1820 whole-seas over1820 three sheets in the wind1821 as drunk as a loon1830 shellaced1881 as drunk as a boiled owl1886 stinking1887 steaming drunk1892 steaming with drink1897 footless1901 legless1903 plastered1912 legless drunk1926 stinko1927 drunk as a pissant1930 kaylied1937 langers1949 stoned1952 smashed1962 shit-faced1963 out of (also off) one's bird1966 trashed1966 faced1968 stoned1968 steaming1973 langered1979 annihilated1980 obliterated1984 wankered1992 muntered1998 the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > weariness or exhaustion > [adjective] > other spec. forsung?a1366 fordreamed?a1400 forplaint1423 forwallowed1423 forcrieda1600 overdriven1653 over-drove1751 mooth1768 forridden1820 fatigued1853 stale1856 fucked-out1862 wooden-weary1888 blind-weary.1923 partied-out1950 stressed out1980 c975 Rushw. Gosp. John ix. 32 Ego ðæs blinda-borones. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 136 Þu art blint iheorted. & nene sist hu poure þuart & naked of halinesse. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 13601 Ȝe Sai þat blind-born man was he. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xxii. 610 The poor, Blind-Born Man. c1775 Sandman's Wedding: A Cantata She being blind drunk Sir, Joe drove her away in his Cart. 1827 W. Clarke Every Night Bk. 191 Whenever I've been tipsy in your company, you have always been blind drunk. 1845 B. Disraeli Sybil III. v. x. 132 Hang me if I wasn't blind drunk at the end of it. 1887 W. Morris tr. Homer Odyssey I. x. 186 Tiresias..The blind-eyed, the foreseer. 1902 Daily Chron. 18 Feb. 3/2 Are we to suppose, then, that Goethe..was a blind-eyed fool? 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 99 [The bat] Flying slower, Seeming to stumble, to fall in air. Blind-weary. 1935 Mind 44 434 Blind-born persons, such as Helen Keller, talk intelligently about colours. 1953 E. O'Neill Moon for Misbegotten iv. 140 Sure, I got so blind drunk at the Inn I forgot all about our scheme. Compounds Also blind-coal n., blind gut n., blindhead n.¹, blind-nettle n., blind-worm n. blind ad n. U.S. (see quot. 1948). ΚΠ 1948 H. L. Mencken Amer. Lang. Suppl. II. xi. 731 Blind ad., an unsigned newspaper or magazine advertisement. 1962 ‘A. A. Fair’ Stop at Red Light ii. 25 The insurance company have been running a blind ad..offering one hundred dollars for any witness..to an accident..at Seventh and Main Streets. blind advertisement n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > publishing or spreading abroad > advertising > advertising in the press > [noun] > types of press advertisement lost1762 lost(s) and founds1777 small advertisement1811 blind advertisement1842 want advertisementa1871 reading notice1872 small ad1875 want ad1892 classified1909 smalls1919 tombstone1948 tele ad1967 matrimonials1989 1842 Ainsworth's Mag. 2 43 The Puff Preliminary is known to..‘printer's devils’, by the less euphonious title of ‘a blind advertisement’. blind approach n. Aeronautics an approach made without direct observation (see 1j); applied attributively to a radio navigation system controlling such an approach. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > sudden rapid descent > descent prior to landing > landing approach > types of blind approach1936 power approach1938 missed approach1951 instrument approach1957 1936 C. B. Allen Wonder Book of Air 300 To aid him in this, the present set-up in the radio ‘blind approach’ system..includes the use of a string of powerful and distinctive lights. 1947 R. A. Smith Radio Aids to Navig. xi. 88 It is generally felt now that some form of glide path is preferable to an altimeter for blind approach. blind area n. Architecture a clear space around the basement wall of a house. ΚΠ 1852 Illustr. Gloss. Pract. Archit. 47 Blind area, an area built round the basement' wall of a house for the purpose of keeping it dry. blind-axle n. an axle that turns but does not move any other part of the mechanism; also called dead-axle. blind back n. applied attributively to a type of house that has no back door. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > a dwelling > a house > types of house > [adjective] > house of specific shape or style back-to-back1626 detached1706 self-contained1767 ground-floored1824 semi-detached1859 bungaloid1927 bi-level1929 one-up, one-down1933 blind back1937 terraced1958 tri-level1960 split entry1967 two-up two-down1973 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 53 House in Wallgate quarter. Blind back type. One up, one down. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier iv. 56 Houses of what is called the ‘blind back’ type..in which the builder has omitted to put in a back door. blind-ball n. the Puff-ball ( Lycoperdon bovista), a fungus containing dust which is supposed to blind the eyes. blind-beetle n. a popular name for beetles which are apt to fly against people, esp. by night; hence blind-beetledness; also, a small beetle found in rice. ΚΠ 1649 J. Lightfoot Battle with Wasp's Nest (1825) 389 If you must shame any body for blind beetledness. blind-blocking n. Bookbinding = blind-tooling n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of fillet1641 blind-tooling1818 blocking1846 gold blocking1852 blind-blocking1870 run-up1875 gouge1885 azure1894 goffering1894 blind-stamping1910 1870 Bookseller 12 Dec. 1342 They [sc. the presses] can be used for Blind Blocking whole cases, including two sides, and back, by one impression; or they can be used to Block whole cases, part Blind, part Gold..by one impression. 1898 Catal. Bks. Dean & Son Ltd. 5 in Brit. Bks. in Print 3 Barnaby Rudge,..Bound in cloth boards, orchids being embossed in blind blocking, titles on back and front stamped in gold. 1987 Bookman's Catal. I. 99/1 Same blind-blocking of sides but publisher's imprint at foot of spines is in much larger type. blind booking n. the booking of films by cinema proprietors without previous selection on their merits. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > film show > [noun] > booking of films by cinema proprietors block-booking1925 blind booking1927 1927 Glasgow Herald 20 Jan. 7 ‘Blind-booking’ was responsible for a very large percentage of the machine-made pictures which came from America to this country. 1927 Daily Tel. 15 Mar. 9/2 The Labour-Socialists..are in favour of the proposals for the abolition of blind booking and restrictions on advance booking. blind creek n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > land mass > shore or bank > bend in coast > [noun] > inlet in river or sea > dry blind creek1886 1886 J. W. Anderson Prospector's Handbk. 115 Blind Creek, a creek, dry, except during wet weather. blind date n. [date n.² 8a] originally and chiefly U.S. colloquial (see quot. 1929); also, the person with whom such a ‘date’ is arranged. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement date1885 dating1921 blind date1925 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > date with person never seen before blind date1925 society > leisure > social event > type of social event > [noun] > social or romantic appointment or engagement > person blind date1925 date1925 the mind > emotion > love > courtship or wooing > [noun] > practice of going on dates > date with person never seen before > person with whom one has a blind date blind date1925 1925 Literary Digest 14 Mar. 65/1 No, got a blind date on to-night. 1929 Amer. Speech 4 420 A blind date, a date with someone whom the datee does not know but which is arranged by a third person. 1947 Chicago Tribune 14 June 18/8 In describing your blind date, I would say she has a wonderful personality. blind faith belief or confidence (in a person or thing) without any evidence or proof. ΚΠ 1529 T. More Dyaloge Dyuers Maters i. xvii. f. xxii^v Such I mene as moste trust haue and blynde fayth in these blynde ymagys. 1863 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola II. xvii. 207 She had been strong enough to snap asunder the bonds she had accepted in blind faith. 2004 First Things (Nexis) 1 May 18 This exaltation of blind faith frequently goes hand in hand with a strong predestinationism. blind-fish n. the Amblyopsis spelæus, a fish without eyes found in the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > fish > superorder Acanthopterygii (spiny fins) > order Perciformes (perches) > order Atheriniformes > [noun] > member of family Cyprinodontidae mummichog1787 killifish1836 cyprinodont1857 blind-fish1880 1880 A. Günther Introd. Study of Fishes 618 The famous Blind Fish of the Mammoth Cave in Kentucky..is destitute of external eyes. blind-gallery n. (see sense 10). Categories » blind-harry n. Scottish blind-man's-buff. blind hazard n. (a) a card game; (b) Golf (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > others laugh and lie down1522 mack1548 decoyc1555 pinionc1557 to beat the knave out of doors1570 imperial1577 prima vista1587 loadum1591 flush1598 prime1598 thirty-perforce1599 gresco1605 hole1621 my sow's pigged1621 slam1621 fox-mine-host1622 whipperginnie1622 crimpa1637 hundred1636 pinache1641 sequence1653 lady's hole1658 quebas1668 art of memory1674 costly colours1674 penneech1674 plain dealing1674 wit and reason1680 comet1685 lansquenet1687 incertain1689 macham1689 uptails1694 quinze1714 hoc1730 commerce1732 matrimonya1743 tredrille1764 Tom come tickle me1769 tresette1785 snitch'ems1798 tontine1798 blind hazard1816 all fives1838 short cards1845 blind hookey1852 sixty-six1857 skin the lamb1864 brisque1870 handicap1870 manille1874 forty-five1875 slobberhannes1877 fifteen1884 Black Maria1885 slapjack1887 seven-and-a-half1895 pit1904 Russian Bank1915 red dog1919 fan-tan1923 Pelmanism1923 Slippery Sam1923 go fish1933 Russian Banker1937 racing demon1938 pit-a-pat1947 scopa1965 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > hazards hazard1744 blind hazard1816 bunker1824 sand-bunker1824 sand1842 break-club1857 water hazard1889 trap1890 casual water1899 pot bunker1899 sand-trap1922 1816 S. W. Singer Researches Hist. Playing Cards 263 We are informed the modern name of this game [Bankrout] is Blind Hazard. 1900 A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 315 A Blind hazard is also a hazard which is hidden from his view. blind-hob n. some game unknown. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > blind-man's-buff, etc. hoodman-blind1565 hoodwink1574 Hob-man blind1599 blind-man's-buff1600 bob and hit1611 Harry racket1611 blind-bob1783 bond-man-blind1783 jingling match1801 pawn party1831 blind-hob1834 shadow buff1879 Blind Tom1909 1834 A. E. Bray Warleigh II. iii. 72 In the servants' hall, playing at blind hob, and hot cockles. blind hole n. Golf (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > golf > golf course > [noun] > section of hole1874 blind hole1900 1900 A. E. T. Watson Young Sportsman 315 A Blind hole is one of which the putting-green is not visible to the player as he plays his shot. blind-hookey n. a card game. ΚΠ 1840 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker 3rd Ser. xi. 152 What do you say to a game at all-fours, blind-hookey, odd or even,..just to pass time? 1861 W. M. Thackeray Adventures of Philip xxi, in Cornhill Mag. Oct. 388 Victimized by his own uncle..at a game at ‘blind hookey.’ blind ink n. (see quot.). ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > writing materials > ink > [noun] > ink which swells into relief blind inka1884 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 106/2 Blind Ink. Invented by Edison. An ink which..swells up into relief on the paper. blind-level n. (see quot.). ΚΠ 1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 109 Blind level, 1. A level not yet connected with other workings. 2. A level for drainage, having a shaft at either end, and acting as an inverted siphon. blind literature n. (see quots.) ΚΠ 1921 Post Office Guide Aug. 15 ‘Blind Literature’. Papers of any kind, periodicals, and books, impressed in ‘Braille’ or other special type for the use of the blind. † blind-mouse n. Obsolete the mole; also the water shrew-mouse. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Talpidae > genus Talpa (mole) wanteOE mouldwarpa1325 molec1400 talpec1440 blind-mouse1607 mowdie1656 field tortoise1694 Talpa1706 the world > animals > mammals > group Unguiculata or clawed mammal > [noun] > order Insectivora > family Soricidae > genus Neomys (water-shrew) water shrew-mouse1764 blind-mouse1770 water shrew1771 pig mouse1905 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 727 It hunteth Moles or blinde Mice. 1770 T. Pennant Brit. Zool. (new ed.) IV. 83 It [sc. the water shrewmouse] is called, from the smallness of its eyes, the blind mouse. blind-pig n. U.S. colloquial a place where liquor is illicitly sold. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house shebeenc1787 joint1821 kiddleywink1830 blind tiger1857 shanty1862 dive1871 blind-pig1887 speakeasy1889 shebeen1900 booze can1905 speak1930 speako1931 nip joint1936 society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling liquor > unlicensed > specific illicit or illegal poteen shop1834 blind-pig1887 hole in the wall1887 speakeasy1889 1887 Minnesota Gen. Statutes Suppl. (1888) 248 Whoever shall attempt to evade or violate any of the laws of this state..by means of the artifice or contrivance known as the ‘Blind Pig’ or ‘Hole in the Wall’..shall..be punished. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 23 Sept. But a ‘blind pig’ is at best but a sordid institution. 1904 Harper's Weekly 20 Aug. 1272 Six non-commissioned officers have been reduced to the ranks for running what is technically known as a ‘blind pig’, or unlawful canteen. 1961 Spectator 28 July 135 Blind pigs—establishments with anonymous blank facades entered by a basement front door with a peep-hole. blind-pigger n. U.S. colloquial ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > black marketeer or boot-legger bootlegger1889 blind-pigger1894 legger1926 black marketeer1941 blacketeer1942 black marketer1942 1894 Voice (N.Y.) 6 Dec. 1/5 Headed by one of the blind-piggers who was under arrest. blind-pigging n. U.S. colloquial ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > illegal or immoral trading > [noun] > in liquor bootlegging1903 blind-pigging1918 1918 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Add. Blind-pigging, n. 1927 Blackwood's Mag. June 833/1 Amongst the common herd two crimes ranked as serious—‘blind-pigging’ and ‘high-grading’. Categories » blind poker n. U.S. (see sense 1h). blind printing n. (see quots.). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > relief engraving > [noun] > other techniques gypsography1840 chemigraphy1853 cameo-embossing1878 chemigraph1892 line-work1895 blind printing1904 gauffrage1904 1904 E. F. Strange Japanese Colour Prints xi. 110 In addition to the blocks for various colours, an effect of blind printing (gauffrage) was often secured by the use of an additional printing from a clean block. 1926 H. Hubbard How to distinguish Prints 21 Charpentier and others..experimented with ‘blind printing’, that is, the use of an uninked relief block that merely embossed the paper with its engraved design. blind roller n. [roller n.¹ 18] (see quot. 1948). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [noun] > other way1578 wake1753 clean, clear breach1867 feather-spray1867 south-western1872 bow-wave1877 gravity wave1877 blind roller1888 gravitational wave1899 Kelvin wave1922 rooster tail1934 slide1935 bow shock1938 beacher1956 1888 G. O. Preshaw Banking under Difficulties xxv. 155 ‘Blind rollers’ often rising and swamping a boat. 1948 R. de Kerchove Internat. Maritime Dict. Blind rollers, relatively heavy and often dangerous ocean swell caused by water in motion meeting lesser depth as it passes over shoals or approaches land. blind-seed disease n. a fungal disease of rye grass in which the seed fails to germinate; so blind-seed fungus. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > disease or injury > [noun] > type of disease > fungal > associated with crop or food plants > various diseases red rot1798 bunt1800 heart rot1808 yellow rust1808 pepperbrand1842 black spot1847 take-all1865 anthracnose1877 coffee-leaf disease1877 white rot1879 bladder-brand1883 basal rot1896 whitehead1898 black root rot1901 chancre1903 black pod1904 bud-rot1906 frog-eye1906 wildfire1918 pasmo1926 blind-seed disease1939 sharp eyespot1943 the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants bunt1800 Sclerotium1813 Alternaria1834 oidium1836 Septoria1836 conk1851 Rhizopus1854 snow-mould1855 vine-mildew1855 vine-fungus1857 bramble-brand1867 Microsphaera1871 wood-fungus1876 sphacelia1879 blue mould1882 orange fungus1882 cluster-cup1883 hop-mildew1883 powdery mildew1886 cladosporium1887 shot-hole fungus1897 verdet1897 wound-fungus1897 fusarium1907 verticillium1916 rhynchosporium1918 coral-spot1923 blind-seed fungus1939 sclerotinia1950 1939 J. C. Neill & E. O. C. Hyde in N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. Feb. 283A Low-germination trouble of otherwise apparently sound, well-harvested crops [of rye-grass] is caused by a pathogenic fungus... So unnoticeable are the symptoms that it has not yet even received a common name... It is proposed that it be called Blind-seed Disease. 1939 J. C. Neill & E. O. C. Hyde in N.Z. Jrnl. Sci. & Technol. Feb. 288A The blind-seed fungus appears to be allied to Helotium herbarum Fries. 1956 Nature 10 Mar. 466/1 Blind seed disease of ryegrass caused by Phialea temulenta. blind-shaft n. a winze. blind-shell n. Gunnery a shell containing no powder, also one that fails to explode when fired. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > ammunition for firearms > [noun] > bullet or shell > shell > other types of shell carcass1684 light ball1729 anchor ball1779 shrapnel1810 hollow shot1862 segment-shell1862 blind-shell1864 ring-shot1868 star shell1876 ring-shell1879 pipsqueak1900 Black Maria1914 coal box1914 crump1914 Jack Johnson1914 Archie1915 Little Willie1915 whizz-bang1915 woolly bear1915 fizzbang1916 five-ninea1918 ashcan1918 cream puff1918 sea-bag1918 pudding1919 G.I. can1929 flechette1961 1864 Daily Tel. 4 May The day was closed with..blind shells for the purpose of completing the tables of ranges. blind spot n. (a) the spot on the retina which is insensible to light; (b) Cricket that spot of ground in front of a batter where a ball pitched by the bowler leaves the batter in doubt whether to play forward or back; (c) Radio (see quot. 1923); (d) transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > [noun] > a perverse inclination or act wrong-headedness1748 warp1764 squint1774 blind spot1864 society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > signal > obstruction or poor reception blind spot1864 screening1902 fading1912 night effect1914 night error1921 wipeout1921 skip1925 radio fade-out1927 fade-out1937 the world > life > the body > sense organ > sight organ > parts of sight organ > [noun] > retina > other parts of retina macula1670 fundus1682 yellow spot1798 macula lutea1818 ora serrata1833 corresponding points1841 identical points1841 blind spot1864 fixation-point1890 cyanolabe1958 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > cricket > bowling > [noun] > a ball bowled > of specific difficulty to batsman blind spot1864 1864 Baily's Monthly Mag. Sept. 301 Now the great difficulty of slows, besides being (as they ought all to be) ‘in the blind spot’, consists in the elevation..of a dropping ball. 1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) ix. 219 So long as the image..rests upon the entrance of the optic nerve, it is not perceived, and hence this region of the retina is called the blind spot. 1891 W. G. Grace Cricket iii. 73 Too soon would come a ball on the blind spot. 1907 G. B. Shaw John Bull's Other Island Pref. p. xli You find that there is a blind spot on their moral retina, and that this blind spot is the military spot. 1910 J. Galsworthy Justice i. 19 No doing anything with them... They've got a blind spot. 1923 Daily Mail 13 Feb. 7 Wireless blind spots, where distant broadcasting is heard more clearly than that nearer at hand. 1932 E. V. Lucas Reading, Writing & Remembering viii. 150 He was too full of prejudices and had too many blind spots, to be the perfect critic. blind staggers n. (see stagger n.¹ 2). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > animal disease or disorder > disorders of cattle, horse, or sheep > [noun] > staggers or gid turn?1523 sturdiness1552 turn-sick1566 sturdy1570 dazy1577 stavers1597 (to have) the staggers1599 gid1601 giddy1603 turnabout1605 stacker1610 turning-evil1614 megrims1639 blind staggers1784 the goggles1793 dazing1799 stomach-staggers1831 turn-sick1834 turn-side1845 phalaris staggers1946 1784 J. Lewis Diary 4 Mar. in Proc. New Jersey Hist. Soc. (1941) LIX. 169 We discovered that my horse had a distemper called the blind staggers. 1839 H. Colman 2nd Rep. Agric. Mass. (Mass. Agric. Surv.) 75 Having no exercise, it tends to produce the blind staggers. 1874 2nd Rep. Vermont State Board Agric. 1873–4 341 The disease is frequently called ‘blind staggers’. blind-stamped adj. Bookbinding ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [adjective] > impressed design > types of Grolier1827 blind1835 blind-stamped1931 azured1937 1931 Library XI. 395 Long after blind-stamped pictorial panels had gone out of use in Paris. 1931 Library XI. 425 Business in the Gothic blind-stamped bindings. blind-stamping n. Bookbinding = blind-tooling n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of fillet1641 blind-tooling1818 blocking1846 gold blocking1852 blind-blocking1870 run-up1875 gouge1885 azure1894 goffering1894 blind-stamping1910 1910 Encycl. Brit. IV. 217/1 English binders excelled in this art of ‘blind’ stamping, that is, without the use of gold leaf. blind stitch n. a stitch taken on one side of the material so as to be invisible on the other; hence as v. transitive, to sew or fasten with blind stitch. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > sewn or ornamented textile fabric > [noun] > sewing or work sewn > stitch > invisible stitch blind stitcha1884 catch stitch1892 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > sew or ornament textile fabric [verb (transitive)] > sew > with invisible stitch slip-stitch1872 catch-stitch1879 blind stitcha1884 stoat1901 a1884 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Suppl. 107/2 Blind Stitch. (Harness)... A stitch that is shown on one side only of the leather. 1909 Daily Chron. 14 Jan. 7/5 Facings should be blind-stitched into place. blind-story n. Architecture a triforium or series of arches below the clerestory of a cathedral, admitting no light. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > triforium > [noun] blind-storyc1520 triforium1703 upfloor1879 c1520 Abbott Mill Vitæ Dunkeld. Episcop. in J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. (1845) I. 57 Construxit usque secundos arcus, vulgariter le blyndstorys. 1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) Introd. 18 There is a passage in the thickness of the wall of the clerestory as well as in the triforium or blind-story. blind tiger n. U.S. = blind-pig n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > drinking > drinking place > [noun] > tavern or public house > illegal drinking-house shebeenc1787 joint1821 kiddleywink1830 blind tiger1857 shanty1862 dive1871 blind-pig1887 speakeasy1889 shebeen1900 booze can1905 speak1930 speako1931 nip joint1936 1857 Spirit of Times 23 May 182/1 I sees a kinder pigeon-hole cut in the side of a house, and over the hole, in big writin', ‘Blind Tiger, ten cents a sight.’.. That ‘blind tiger’ was an arrangement to evade the law, which won't let 'em sell licker there, except by the gallon. 1884 Arkansas Digest Laws 1883 493 Any person..who shall sell..any alcohol..by such device as is known as ‘the blind tiger’,..shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. 1903 N.Y. Evening Post 16 Sept. It will be interesting to note the effect [of the beer gardens] on the ‘blind tigers’, which have continued to flourish in spite of executive vigilance. 1926 D. L. Colvin Prohibition in U.S. 297 Some effort was made to suppress blind tigers which were then chiefly supplied by moonshine stills. Blind Tom n. blind-man's-buff. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > parlour and party games > [noun] > blind-man's-buff, etc. hoodman-blind1565 hoodwink1574 Hob-man blind1599 blind-man's-buff1600 bob and hit1611 Harry racket1611 blind-bob1783 bond-man-blind1783 jingling match1801 pawn party1831 blind-hob1834 shadow buff1879 Blind Tom1909 1909 T. M. Healey in Hansard Commons 3 Sept. 767 He never could understand this system of playing Blind Tom with the House of Commons—especially in a taxing statute. blind-tooling n. Bookbinding an ornamental impression on a book-cover produced by a heated block, or tool, without goldleaf; = blind-blocking n. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [noun] > impressed designs > type of fillet1641 blind-tooling1818 blocking1846 gold blocking1852 blind-blocking1870 run-up1875 gouge1885 azure1894 goffering1894 blind-stamping1910 1818 H. Parry Art of Bookbinding In addition to the gilt back, rolled plain, that is, blind-tooling, on the inside of the board. 1907 Forest & Stream May 215/2 Light purple cloth, same tooling except that blind tooling around border of both covers is different and more elaborate. 2004 J. Cambras Compl. Art Bookbinding 108/1 Blind tooling has been around longer than bookmaking and has been used to decorate books since their inception. blind trust n. North American a trust that administers the private business interests of a person in public office in order to prevent any possibility of conflict between these and the public interest. ΘΚΠ society > law > transfer of property > settlement of property > [noun] > putting property into trust > type of trust resulting trust1693 shifting use1765 passive trust1837 living trust1913 blind trust1969 1969 Sunday Times 23 Mar. 34 David Packard has put his $300 million worth of Hewlett Packard stock into a so-called blind trust. 1972 Fortune Jan. 110/1 He resigned all of his other posts and put his holdings into a blind trust before taking the job. 1979 N.Y. Times 18 Jan. a1 The day he became President, Mr. Carter's 62 percent interest in the business was transferred to a ‘blind trust’ administered by..an Atlanta lawyer. blind-window n. ? a window that admits no light; an arch of the blind-story. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > triforium > [noun] > arch of blind-window1506 1506 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 107 I byqueth toward the makyng of ij blynde wyndowes in the seid monasterij..xli. Draft additions July 2009 to rob someone blind: to steal from someone mercilessly or shamelessly. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > rob [verb (transitive)] > specifically a person ripeOE robc1225 ravishc1384 to-reave1393 to shake (a person) out ofc1412 to purge a person's purse1528 cashiera1616 to rob someone blind1897 1897 Los Angeles Times 5 Apr. 5/2 England can afford to do it... It has robbed India blind. 1920 J. E. Buttree Despoilers 55 He could have informed them that Rome and the Priesthood were robbing them blind. 1986 F. Iyayi Heroes (1989) xii. 91 The real enemies are the politicians who robbed the country blind, who looted the country and prompted the generals to intervene. 2004 L. Desoto Blade of Grass xxxi. 178 And even if you are mistress of this farm, they will not take you seriously. They'll try to rob you blind. Draft additions August 2007 blind item n. originally and chiefly U.S. (a) an item listed in a catalogue, ledger, etc., without a description of what it is; (b) a (scandalous) story, esp. in a gossip column, which does not reveal the names of the people being discussed. ΚΠ ?1858 Facts for People of Michigan! (Republican Party, Mich.) 12/1 There is a large number of blind items audited,..designated ‘sundries’, which is the only indication of their character. 1937 Washington Post 7 Mar. 3/1 No form of Hollywood gossip is half so vicious as those ‘blind items’ which are passed along to you surreptitiously over the luncheon table and behind closed doors. 1957 Zanesville (Ohio) Signal 8 Oct. 4 a/6 The Treasury Dept. looked into Gibbons' books. They found some blind items which Gibbons couldn't explain publicly. 2006 Philippine Daily Inquirer (Nexis) 23 Sept. That blind item I wrote some months ago about a PBA assistant coach being involved in cybersex should have served as a wake-up call. Draft additions August 2007 blind carbon copy n. = blind copy n. 2.Originally used of carbon-paper copies; later used irrespective of medium. ΚΠ 1968 Fresno (Calif.) Bee 10 Sept. 11 a/2 When typing letters that require blind carbon copies to be sent, don't remove the original letter and then type the names of those who are to receive the blind carbons. 1992 Infoworld (Nexis) 6 Apr. 108 Standard memos include options for carbon copy and blind carbon copy. 2000 S. Sweeney Internet Marketing for your Tourism Business vii. 157 Make sure that you know how to use the blind carbon copy function in your e-mail program. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blindv. Brit. /blʌɪnd/, U.S. /blaɪnd/ Forms: Also Middle English blynd(e. past tense and participle blinded: participle in Middle English blind, iblind, (Middle English blynyd). Etymology: < blind adj., first in Middle English: taking the place of the earlier equivalent blend v.¹; or rather perhaps to be viewed as a phonetic variation of the latter, caused by assimilation to the adjective. 1. transitive. To make blind, deprive of sight: a. permanently. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > blind blendc888 forblendc1175 blindfoldc1320 to put out a person's eyesc1325 blinda1400 dark?c1400 darken?a1425 quenchc1450 excecate?1540 stark blind1574 beblind1575 douta1616 unsight?1615 benight1621 emblind1631 occaecate1664 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7246 Þai blinded him and prisund bath. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 40 Blyndyn, or make blynde, exceco. a1450 Syr Eglam. 318 To the yeant he gafe a sowe And blyndyd hym in that tyde! 1753 J. Hanway Hist. Acct. Brit. Trade Caspian Sea I. v. lxxvi. 347 Ali was taken prisoner and blinded. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. ii. 37 He had been accidentally blinded of one eye. b. temporarily, e.g. by dazzling with a bright light, or by bandaging the eyes: To render insensible to light or colour. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] blendc888 ablind?c1225 blinda1425 a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Ecclus. xliii. 4 The sunne blyndith iȝen. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 458/1 This great light blyndeth my syght. 1632 P. Massinger & N. Field Fatall Dowry iv. sig. I3^v Feare nothing. I will onely blinde your eyes. 1827 T. Hood Hero & Leander xlv, in Plea Midsummer Fairies & Other Poems 84 His eyes are blinded with the sleety brine. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. §5. 38 The effect..upon the eye is to blind it in some degree to the perception of red. c. Used informally in imprecations, as blind me! Cf. blimey int. ΚΠ 1890 J. S. Farmer Slang I. 230/1 Blimey, a corruption of ‘blind me!’; an expression little enough understood by those who constantly have it in their mouths. 1923 E. O'Neill Hairy Ape v. 47 There's a 'ole mob of 'em like 'er, Gawd blind 'em! a1953 E. O'Neill In Zone (1955) 523 'E ain't arf a sly one wiv 'is talk of submarines, gawd blind 'im. 2. figurative. a. To close the eyes of the understanding or moral perception; to deceive, ‘throw dust in the eyes’ of (persons and their faculties). Also, to render (mentally) blind or oblivious to. reflexive, to shut one's (mental) eyes to. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deceive [verb (transitive)] aschrenchc885 blendc888 swikec950 belirtOE beswike971 blencha1000 blenka1000 belieOE becatchc1175 trokec1175 beguile?c1225 biwrench?c1225 guile?c1225 trechec1230 unordainc1300 blink1303 deceivec1320 feintc1330 trechetc1330 misusea1382 blind1382 forgo1382 beglose1393 troil1393 turnc1405 lirt?a1425 abuse?a1439 ludify1447 amuse1480 wilec1480 trump1487 delude?a1505 sile1508 betrumpa1522 blear1530 aveugle1543 mislippen1552 pot1560 disglose1565 oversile1568 blaze1570 blirre1570 bleck1573 overtake1581 fail1590 bafflea1592 blanch1592 geck?a1600 hallucinate1604 hoodwink1610 intrigue1612 guggle1617 nigglea1625 nose-wipe1628 cog1629 cheat1637 flam1637 nurse1639 jilt1660 top1663 chaldese1664 bilk1672 bejuggle1680 nuzzlec1680 snub1694 bite1709 nebus1712 fugle1719 to take in1740 have?1780 quirk1791 rum1812 rattlesnake1818 chicane1835 to suck in1842 mogue1854 blinker1865 to have on1867 mag1869 sleight1876 bumfuzzle1878 swop1890 wool1890 spruce1917 jive1928 shit1934 smokescreen1950 dick1964 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore [verb (reflexive)] unconcern1670 blind1856 the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > ignoring, disregard > ignore, disregard [verb (transitive)] > render unaware of blind1908 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxiii. 8 Ȝiftes, that also blynden wise men. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 17452 To man þat couaitis has blind. ?1548 J. Bale Comedy Thre Lawes Nature iii. sig. Cviij To blynde the rulers, and deceyve the commynalte. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Cor. iii. 14 But their mindes were blinded . View more context for this quotation 1720 J. Ozell et al. tr. R. A. de Vertot Hist. Revol. Rom. Republic II. ix. 92 A great Presumption blinded him from seeing his own Incapacity. 1726 Bp. J. Butler 15 Serm. x. 187 Good-will to another may..blind our Judgment. 1794 R. B. Sheridan Duenna (new ed.) iii. 71 Don't you see how jealousy blinds people? 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. I. ii. 98 Wolsey could not blind himself to the true condition of the church. 1908 E. F. Benson Climber x. 148 Even Edgar's invariable neatness did not blind her to the fact that he, too, was genuine. 1935 I. Compton-Burnett House & its Head i. 6 I hope that my allowing you to treat the occasion as a festival, has not blinded you to its significance. 1944 W. S. Maugham Razor's Edge i. 10 The glamour of their resounding titles blinded him to their faults. 1979 T. Benn Arguments for Socialism i. 29 We should..not allow the horrors of persecution committed at various times in history by societies proclaiming themselves to be Christian to blind us to the true teachings of Christ. b. intransitive. To go blindly or heedlessly; to drive very fast. Also figurative. slang. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > driving or operating a vehicle > drive a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > drive or operate a motor vehicle > fast or recklessly speed1904 blind1923 cowboy1933 tear-arse1942 fang1973 hoon1983 1923 Daily Mail 21 June 12 Motor-cyclists who blind along the road. 1928 Daily Express 19 May 10/6 By recreation I do not mean blinding along the Brighton road at fifty miles an hour. 1935 Punch 21 Aug. 198/1 It is far better to get a little work done which is perfectly planned and organised than to let people go blinding on without anyone in authority knowing what they are doing. 1937 M. Allingham Dancers in Mourning iv. 58 I was blinding... Didn't see her until I was over her. 1954 C. Fry Dark is Light Enough ii. 71 A trap, they've set for us. Who's got our pistols? Gone blinding into it. 3. a. To put out of sight, hide, conceal; make difficult to see or trace. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)] heeleOE forhelec888 i-hedec888 dernc893 hidec897 wryOE behelec1000 behidec1000 bewryc1000 forhidec1000 overheleOE hilla1250 fealc1325 cover1340 forcover1382 blinda1400 hulsterc1400 overclosec1400 concealc1425 shroud1426 blend1430 close1430 shadow1436 obumber?1440 mufflea1450 alaynec1450 mew?c1450 purloin1461 to keep close?1471 oversilec1478 bewrap1481 supprime1490 occulta1500 silec1500 smoor1513 shadec1530 skleir1532 oppressa1538 hudder-mudder1544 pretex1548 lap?c1550 absconce1570 to steek away1575 couch1577 recondite1578 huddle1581 mew1581 enshrine1582 enshroud1582 mask1582 veil1582 abscondc1586 smotherc1592 blot1593 sheathe1594 immask1595 secret1595 bemist1598 palliate1598 hoodwinka1600 overmaska1600 hugger1600 obscure1600 upwrap1600 undisclose1601 disguise1605 screen1611 underfold1612 huke1613 eclipsea1616 encavea1616 ensconcea1616 obscurify1622 cloud1623 inmewa1625 beclouda1631 pretext1634 covert1647 sconce1652 tapisa1660 shun1661 sneak1701 overlay1719 secrete1741 blank1764 submerge1796 slur1813 wrap1817 buttress1820 stifle1820 disidentify1845 to stick away1900 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Fairf. 14) l. 21357 Þe iewes hid hit efter-sone fra cristen men hit to blinde. 1709 C. Place Let. 23 July in Reliquiæ Galeanæ in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 2 (1781) ii. 106 The way [is] cunningly blinded by diversions. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby iii. iv. 105 Oft doubling back in mazy train, To blind the trace the dews retain. 1820 J. Keats Lamia i, in Lamia & Other Poems 24 Wherefore did you blind Yourself from his quick eyes. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) To Blind a trail, to conceal a person's foot-prints, or to give them the appearance of going in a different direction; and, figuratively, to deceive a person by putting him on the wrong track. †b. To hide from the understanding, to obscure; to represent as obscure. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > keep from knowledge [verb (transitive)] > obscure dark?c1400 darken1526 obscure1532 obnebulatec1540 to blur over1581 adumbrate1598 blind1652 mystify1827 darkle1893 1652 P. Heylyn Cosmographie iii. sig. Rrr2^v Those desarts which Ptolomy blindeth under the name Terra incognita. 1676 E. Stillingfleet Def. Disc. Idolatry To Rdr. sig. a6 The state of the Controversie between us; which T. G. endeavoured with all his art to blind and confound. †4. To come in the way of; to intercept. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > hinder completely or prevent [verb (transitive)] > by interception fore-rideOE blind1303 to cut off1569 forestall1570 intercept1662 interdict1984 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 12152 Oure shryfte þe deuyl blyndeþ. a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Hist. Holy Grail lvi. l. 174 From here Schepis we scholen hem blynde. 5. a. To deprive (things) of light; to darken. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > make dark [verb (transitive)] thesterc888 darkc1300 endark?c1400 darken?1521 endarken1569 Cimmerianize1600 sable1610 blinda1643 pitch1664 embrown1667 disilluminate1865 a1643 W. Cartwright Lady-errant i. iii, in Comedies (1651) sig. a7^v They have laid aside their Jewels, and so Blinded their Garments. 1700 J. Dryden tr. Ovid Ceyx & Alcyone in Wks. (1882–92) Such darkness blinds the sky. 1842 J. Wilson Recreations Christopher North I. 217 Let the honeysuckle..blind unchecked a corner of the kitchen-window. b. To dim by excess of light; to eclipse. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > make dim [verb (transitive)] > render dim by comparison stain1557 perstringe1603 blind1633 eclipse1810 1633 P. Fletcher Piscatorie Eclogs vi. xix. 40 in Purple Island Her beautie all the rest did blinde. 1860 Ld. Tennyson Tithonus in Cornhill Mag. Feb. 176 Thy [sc. Aurora's] sweet eyes..blind the stars. 6. Gunnery. To provide with blindages. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > shelter or screen > protect with screen or shelter [verb (transitive)] > provide with shields for gunners blind1850 1850 A. Alison Hist. Europe from French Revol. (new ed.) XIV. lxxxvii. 4 Extraordinary precautions..to render nugatory the effects of a bombardment, by blinding the ships..with turf, wet blankets, and..other articles. 1870 Standard 12 Dec. Guns blinded with iron mantelets. 7. intransitive. To be or become blind or dim. archaic. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > of vision: become disordered [verb (intransitive)] > become blind darkOE blindc1305 darken1580 c1305 Old Age ix, in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 149 I blind, I bleri. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1126 Ho blyndes of ble. 1822 T. L. Beddoes Brides' Trag. ii. iv. 49 Thy bright eye would blind at sights like this. 8. transitive. In Bookbinding, to stamp in (a pattern) without gilding. ΘΚΠ society > communication > book > manufacture or production of books > book-binding > ornament or lettering on binding > [verb (transitive)] > impress design in or on tool1836 stamp1863 blind1901 1901 D. Cockerell Bookbinding 212 The pattern is blinded in through the leather. 9. To cover the surface of (a newly made road) with fine material. Cf. blinding n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > building or constructing > paving and road-building > pave or build roads [verb (transitive)] > pave > pave with specific material causeya1552 flag1615 causeway1744 metal1806 blind1812 macadamize1823 slab1832 flint1834 pebble1835 asphalt1872 concrete1875 cube1887 cobble1888 block1891 wood-block1908 tarmacadam1910 tarviate1926 tarmac1966 1812 J. Sinclair Acct. Syst. Husbandry Scotl. i. 66 No large stones to be employed..nor sand, earth or other matter, on pretence of blinding [the road]. 1880 W. H. Patterson Gloss. Words Antrim & Down (at cited word) To ‘blind a road’ = to spread small stones or cinders so as to cover up the large stones, with which a new road has been ‘pitched’, and to fill the interstices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1535adj.adv.c975v.1303
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