Part 1195

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Undiscerning; undiscriminating; inconsiderate.</def>

<blockquote>This plan is recommended neither to <b>blind</b> approbation nor to <b>blind</b> reprobation. <i>Jay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>Having such a state or condition as a thing would have to a person who is blind; not well marked or easily discernible; hidden; unseen; concealed; <as>as, a <ex>blind</ex> path; a <ex>blind</ex> ditch.</as></def>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Involved; intricate; not easily followed or traced.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>blind</b> mazes of this tangled wood. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>Having no openings for light or passage; <as>as, a <ex>blind</ex> wall; open only at one end; <as>as, a <ex>blind</ex> alley</as>; a <ex>blind</ex> gut.</as></def>

<p><b>7.</b> <def>Unintelligible, or not easily intelligible; <as>as, a <ex>blind</ex> passage in a book</as>; illegible; <as>as, <ex>blind</ex> writing</as>.</def>

<p><b>8.</b> <fld>(Hort.)</fld> <def>Abortive; failing to produce flowers or fruit; <as>as, <ex>blind</ex> buds; <ex>blind</ex> flowers.</as></def>

<cs><col>Blind alley</col>, <cd>an alley closed at one end; a <i>cul-de-sac<i>.</cd> -- <col>Blind axle</col>, <cd>an axle which turns but does not communicate motion.</cd> <i>Knight</i>. -- <col>Blind beetle</col>, <cd>one of the insects apt to fly against people, esp. at night.</cd> -- <col>Blind cat</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a species of catfish (<spn>Gronias nigrolabris</spn>), nearly destitute of eyes, living in caverns in Pennsylvania.</cd> -- <col>Blind coal</col>, <cd>coal that burns without flame; anthracite coal.</cd> <i>Simmonds</i>. -- <mcol><col>Blind door</col>, <col>Blind window</col></mcol>, <cd>an imitation of a door or window, without an opening for passage or light. See <cref>Blank door</cref> or <i>window<i>, under <er>Blank</er>, <tt>a.</tt></cd> -- <col>Blind level</col> <fld>(Mining)</fld>, <cd>a level or drainage gallery which has a vertical shaft at each end, and acts as an inverted siphon.</cd> <i>Knight</i>. -- <col>Blind nettle</col> <fld>(Bot.)</fld>, <cd>dead nettle. See <cref>Dead nettle</cref>, under <er>Dead</er>.</cd> -- <col>Blind shell</col> <fld>(Gunnery)</fld>, <cd>a shell containing no charge, or one that does not explode.</cd> -- <col>Blind side</col>, <cd>the side which is most easily assailed; a weak or unguarded side; the side on which one is least able or disposed to see danger.</cd> <i>Swift</i>. -- <col>Blind snake</col> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld>, <cd>a small, harmless, burrowing snake, of the family <spn>Typhlopid\'91</spn>, with rudimentary eyes.</cd> -- <col>Blind spot</col> <fld>(Anat.)</fld>, <cd>the point in the retina of the eye where the optic nerve enters, and which is insensible to light.</cd> -- <col>Blind tooling</col>, <cd>in bookbinding and leather work, the indented impression of heated tools, without gilding; -- called also <altname>blank tooling</altname>, and <altname>blind blocking</altname>.</cd> -- <col>Blind wall</col>, <cd>a wall without an opening; a blank wall.</cd></cs>

<h1>Blind</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blind</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Blinded</er>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Blinding</er>.]</wordforms> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make blind; to deprive of sight or discernment.</def> "To <i>blind</i> the truth and me."

<i>Tennyson.</i>

<blockquote>A blind guide is certainly a great mischief; but a guide that <b>blinds</b> those whom he should lead is . . . a much greater. <i>South.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To deprive partially of vision; to make vision difficult for and painful to; to dazzle.</def>

<blockquote>Her beauty all the rest did <b>blind</b>. <i>P. Fletcher.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To darken; to obscure to the eye or understanding; to conceal; to deceive.</def>

<blockquote>Such darkness <b>blinds</b> the sky. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The state of the controversy between us he endeavored, with all his art, to <b>blind</b> and confound. <i>Stillingfleet.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To cover with a thin coating of sand and fine gravel; as a road newly paved, in order that the joints between the stones may be filled.</def>

<h1>Blind</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw>Blind</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Something to hinder sight or keep out light; a screen; a cover; esp. a hinged screen or shutter for a window; a blinder for a horse.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Something to mislead the eye or the understanding, or to conceal some covert deed or design; a subterfuge.</def>

<p><b>3.</b> <ety>[Cf. F. <ets>blindes</ets>, p<?/., fr. G. <ets>blende</ets>, fr. <ets>blenden</ets> to blind, fr. <ets>blind</ets> blind.]</ety> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>A blindage. See <er>Blindage</er>.</def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>A halting place.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Dryden.</i>

<h1>Blind, Blinde</h1> <Xpage=155>

<hw><hw>Blind</hw>, <hw>Blinde</hw><hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>Blende</er>.</def>

<h1>Blindage</h1> <Xpage=155>